Sleep Over
...I board the midnight train because no one had an extra room to spear
I reserved an overnight seat that will take me into the deep
I didn’t know where I was going and all I needed was a place to lay...
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Categories:
ball field, america, care, children, cry,
Form: Narrative
Distant Hooves
...America’s
faded glory
the polo field
reminds
Of years
of fleeting greatness
and hopes that lived
in kind
A child walks
the ball field
where ponies
used to tread
With memories
burie...
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Categories:
ball field, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Traveling Light
...The trampoline helped me to distress
acrobatic jumps higher and higher still
problems and responsibilities in the air
jumping so high I landed on a pair of wings,
Hanging ten on his massive fea...
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Categories:
ball field, angel, travel,
Form: Free verse
Elements Part 2: Wind
...ELEMENTS part 2: WIND
Fiercely, it seemed the furious wind forestalled
The baseball game, bat and ball suspended.
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Categories:
ball field, baseball, culture, emotions, games,
Form: Alliteration
Seasonal Walks In the Park
...baseball, bird, change, childhood, games, holiday, lost,
“Seasonal Walks in the Park!”
A walk in the park after a springtime morning rainfall
Is to hear the droplets fall from bent branches o...
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Categories:
ball field, baseball, bird, change, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Guatemala Tour
...Guatemala Tour
The Mayan’s were the focus
Of our Guatemala stop
We saw some ancient ruins
Had a lunch and stopped to shop
That there describes the outline
Of any tours you take
But the devil...
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Categories:
ball field, travel,
Form: Epic
Signs
...Walking onto the ball field and taking first base
As to my son I yield as short stop would be his place
Needing something to draw the base that wasn't there
In order to catch the ball and in keeping ...
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Categories:
ball field, baseball,
Form: Rhyme
Baseball Glitter
...The sport of ball games is many each summer and each fall.
Within the Major leagues, and the Minors are many whines.
The events that are pitted causes Peewees to bawl.
Excuses like pines ...
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Categories:
ball field, introspection, time,
Form: Quatrain
Granny's Sticker Patch
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We all went to granny's house one day.
There was a ball field were we could play.
The boys asked granny if they could...
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Categories:
ball field, life
Form: Couplet
"seasons of Work"
...I work all day in the heat and the sun...
Some days are rough but most are fun...
The seasons change as our work does too...
From blowing leaves in the fall, to plowing
snow till two...
Planting...
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Categories:
ball field, on work and workingwork,
Form: Rhyme
Tommy's Summer Fun
...The sun ascended on the eastern shore as Tommy awakened to the day.
With eyes now opened, he jumped from his bed, excited.
He remembered, it’s the first day of summer vacation.
He is not about to ...
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Categories:
ball field, childhoodday, summer, day, summer,
Form: Free verse
Lines
...a church softball team
disembarks from a truck bed
and hits the ball field...
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Categories:
ball field, art,
Form: Haiku
Summer Fun
...The sun ascended on the eastern shore as Tommy awakened to the day.
With eyes now opened, he jumped from his bed, excited.
He remembered, it’s the first day of summer vacation.
He is not about to ...
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Categories:
ball field, family, children, happiness, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Rich In Spirit
...I saw them bloom
in emerald,glistening fields;
tall,dauntless and vibrant
searching for the sunniest sky:
to grow bigger than any other flower,
to be noticed by the incandescent sun;
but as the...
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Categories:
ball field, inspirational,
Form: Free verse