PLAY BALL
...Baseball Legend, Joe Black
Pitcher for the BROOKLYN DODGERS
Played on the team with Jackie Robinson
In fact, Mr. Black and Mr. Robinson were room mates
Mr. Black was also a former Corporate VP at...
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Categories:
all time great, appreciation, blessing, business, career,
Form: Free verse
Baseball In Heaven
...This is the story of two all-time great baseball pitchers who are both in the Hall-of-Fame. So, the story goes like this. Last week the old-timers both well into their nineties, were out together at ...
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Categories:
all time great, baseball, friendship, heaven,
Form: Haibun
Bowled Shane
...The ball of the century that took Gatting’s wicket
The best leg spinner of the game called cricket
A larrikin son of the Great South Land
He had an arsenal of balls at his command
The sun shone...
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Categories:
all time great, sports,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Yesterday When I Was Dumb - a Benign Parody By T Wignesan
...YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS DUMB - A Benign Parody
(with sincere enough apologies and more to those who made the original composition an all-time great. T. Wignesan)
Refrain :
Yesterday when I w...
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Categories:
all time great, irony, parody, silence, song,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Message
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I'm not the greatest of all-times, but when I'm done,
I'll be an all time great in this lifetime of mine
Like the late great who came before my time
I will breed a new lifeline, that will br...
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Categories:
all time great, absence, analogy, conflict, confusion,
Form: Acrostic
Manny Pacquiao
...As a young boy,
He lived in extreme poverty
And worked as a construction boy.
Even though there were no foods to offer
On the table and being a boxer
Was the only way to feed his family,
He nev...
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Categories:
all time great, angel, sports,
Form: Rhyme