Baseball Allusion Poems

Dangling hair, girls twirl, drum majors,
Baseball turned cap boys, screenagers,
Gum chew boys, girls curls, tweenagers,
Just teenagers, just teenagers.

Pixie sticks tootsie rolls swallows,
Gummy bears m &...

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When I ask of you of the and when you don't comply for me;
 if you won't do cuz I will be given;
 and if...

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Gateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence,
with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway.
Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for influence
within...

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When my heart returns in the seclusion,
I told him to give me ten years,
In that time, he must see only me
Taste only me, make love...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Faith
                        ...

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I have watched them in their ceaseless task,
Their fruitless task,
That consumes them so,
They who were once the level-headed ones,
Now going rounded in circles,
In an effort...

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breeding frenzied jawboning 
nastiness, rock'm sock'm vermin 
zealously, dizzying hordes kickstart 
outrageous trampling, xMen busting

displays, heralding luminary 
pastoral times, Xing Bethlehem
figurine Jesus observes sacrilegious 
wackiness...

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Pick an apple from off the tree
Pick a person to play with me
A game of baseball might be football maybe even soccer
Two or more a...

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Treks of Tracks of the past, current and future:

Treks of Tracks of a noted past: 
Made mostly in our childhood days
This upon playing childhood games
and...

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Got ya mind on yo money & ya money on yo mind

On time we kick it like right

Got hommies in the street rock rhymes right

Still...

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PSYCHOTIC JOURNEY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Feeling really beat,  I went to bed early last night
Suddenly awakened feeling something’s not right
There was total darkness, I was not...

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It shakes off the bad dreams of the night before
Underneath the sickly blue neon sign that
Buzzes it's contempt for him.
It's eyes stay closed not wanting...

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I'm warning you:
don't come weak
I'm telling you:
don't come lame
I play on the hard diamond,
so don't come with no softball game

I'm a hard-nosed ballplayer,
I don't mind...

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Chicken is nice
But I enjoy something with a little more spice
I looked at my head and I looked at my toe
I thought, "Dang I need...

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