Reason A. Poteet Poet Couplet

Rules For the Game

Have fun playing baseball, hint number one
finish the season though you’ve never won.
Can’t win if you don’t play, work on point two
find the skills you need, then practice them too.

The count’s at three, try to pick the right clothes
Not too tight pants and zippers that will close.
Moving on to cleats with thought number four
be sure they fit, that’s what sizes are for.

And rule five: no cussing, use your tongue's brake,
backtalk, name-calling are habits to break.
Watch your temper, ideal number six -
you’re not that feisty cat which your dog sic’s.

As for step seven, it’s long overdue
learn from your mistakes, know what NOT to do.
Keep the dugout clean, we’ll call this clue eight
squelch farts, don’t throw up cause you over ate. 

Tip nine; learn when to bunt and when to steal
It makes for more fun, but takes nerves of steel.
One more then done with these suggestions ten -
if you chew gum, spit your wad in the tin.


World Series fades, into new pastimes we buy
...Roll on, past baseball to a creed we can live by,
...Respect for others grants our ego fond goodbye.

October 22, 2022

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Vijay Pandit October 31, 2022 at 10:05 AM I found your metaphoric write quite instructive --rules for the game apply to living a good life. Cleverly done in apt homophone rhymes. Best to you. Reason A. Poteet November 15, 2022 at 9:17 AM It's a rather didactic write, Right, easy to pen, don't you know. NO, it's work like caging lions. Lines, like dough, which poets knead, need comments with much ado. Adieu, and for that I thank you.