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My Heart Takes Off

I've never read a baseball sonnet
  Nor thrown a curve with mustard on it

Yet when the umpire shouts 'Play Ball'
  My heart takes off like a rising fastball

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John Watt

October 19, 2020 at 7:30 PM

Now that I've read my first baseball couplet / I still don't know which team is up yet (sorry, bad rhyme) Loved your baseball tribute, my heart does quite the same thing. Now that you've read a baseball sonnet, I'll go buy you some mustard to put on your next curve! ~ root, root, root for the home team - The Sultan of Watt

Ilene Bauer

October 19, 2020 at 1:35 PM

nice one, gershon! i hope you read john watt's baseball sonnet today...

John Watt

October 19, 2020 at 7:32 PM

Thanks for the tip, ilene! I'm hoping I might see a World Series entry from your fabulous pen in the coming week (let's see, what rhymes with stinking Dodgers?)

Gershon Wolf

October 19, 2020 at 5:13 PM

Thanks, ilene. And thanks for telling me about John Watt's baseball sonnet. (He told me one was coming soon). ~ Peanuts and Crackerjacks