Written By: D. Collins 6/11/25
Nothing could explain how soft OKC probably is.
Blocking out? And a max of 4 points from a big?
They have no Charles Barkley who sat in their laps.
Ensuring they couldn't jump and came over the back.
There was an umbrella around the rim in the old days.
Now 4 out of 5 players stand around to shoot tre's.
The game has changed to where it's played without thought.
Just step out of bounds, throw it in, and get ripped off.
They throw it into to SGA then do nothing at all.
Stand around the perimeter hoping they'll get the ball.
No cuts through the paint to finish at the rack.
I'm just wondering whatever happened to that?
Categories:
barkley, basketball, betrayal,
Form: Couplet
Thales the monist
(But Phales first)
Anaxamander's apeiron
Bound by Thales's thirst
Aristotle's forms are particular
He found Plato forms peculiar
A dualistic idealist
Mathematically sure
(Or so he thought)
and no one bought
Pythagoras's mysticism
Mathematical or not
And then there's Kant
A metaphysical agnostic
Hume's empiricism
Is left to criticism
And Barkley left a theological veneer
On a history of philosophy so *****
Leaving no one to know for sure
We'll God knows, and knows why
He doesn't discover anything new
He doesn't learn anew or is surprised
(So if your tempted to call it Murphy's Law)
Call on Him the Original Know-It-All
Categories:
barkley, god, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
"You're my Heart." Juliette Barnes to Avery Barkley in a scene from Nashville. A complicated and sweet love story.
A sweet love song ballad.
You're my Heart
By Michelle Morris
20/04/2025
I'd never known true love
I guess it eluded me until now
But you're the one I want
Thank you for sticking around
You're everything that's good
In my oh so crazy life
You've endured and understood
Every step of the way
Despite the complications
Despite the rocky path
I'll love you for always and forever
Because: You're my Heart
I'm so happy to have found you
Underneath the Darkness of my Life
I'm so happy that we made it
And that I'm your loving wife
You're everything that's good
In my oh so crazy life
You're my favourite happiness
We made our Magic and Miracles
Despite the complications
Despite the rocky path
I'll love you for always and forever
Because: You're my Heart
Despite the complications
Despite the rocky path
I'll love you for always and forever
Because: You're my Heart
© Michelle Morris, 2025
Categories:
barkley, devotion, emotions, inspirational love,
Form: Lyric
Barkley DeVile, Barkley DeVile
Barkley’s my Beagle and hes handsome as hell!
If you saw him, you’d see just what I mean!
Barkley, Oh Barkley
You must be the cutest Beagle there’s ever been!
I love you Barkley DeVile
At first you think its impossible and must be a dream!
To see such a lovely Beagle but believe me its not!
Coz you’d REALISE, with REAL EYES you’d recognise REAL LIES and he's not!
This aint fiction its fact!
Trust me on that!
But i oughtta explain DeViles not his name
Its actually pronounced DEVIL … because he’s well…
Such a ……Handsome DEVIL
Categories:
barkley, animal, appreciation,
Form: Lyric
At the Dating Auction
Anne drew
Andrew
A Mere Lord
Baron
Aaron
Big City Guy
Boston
Austin
He Who Crashes Weddings
Crasher
Asher
Bird Boy’s Best Feature
Allan’s
Talons
Scam Man
Shady
Brady
The Arrogant One
Snobby
Bobby
Christmas Guy
Merry
Barry
Halloween Guy
Scary
Barry
The Proposal
Baxter
asked her
After Laying Out
Darker
Barker
Twinkle Toes
Sparkly
Barkley
The Water’s Fine
Wade in,
Brayden
Brave Heart
Lion
Bryan
Categories:
barkley, boy,
Form: Footle
Barkley
He was barely nine weeks old
When Jim set him down inside the front door
And he came in, not timidly
To this new home with all its long-established
Smells, but he strut forward
As if he owned the place. And, so,
When it came to choosing his name, we
Decided to call this cocker-with-an-attitude
Barkley after Charles Barkley
Who ran onto courts as if he owned them,
Which he did.
So like this champion-bred spaniel
Who henceforth owned me. This
Longest-earred, rare tri-colored prince,
Who would lick my fingers one by one,
From thumb to pinky and lay guard over me
— With his ashes now set waiting
To be blown in the wind with mine — always
Kept me still as I stroked him, as some others might
Turn worry-stones in a pocket, to keep me steady
In challenged hours, as our telepathy
Spoke without a second’s delay, as if
God had planned the timing of
Our together,
So Barkley would strut on ahead to show me
I had nothing to fear.
**********. **********. **********. *********
(C)sally Young eslinger 11/2020
Categories:
barkley, basketball, christian, dog, love,
Form: Free verse
They're great scorers, undeniably true
So many thrilled to their game-winning shots
Made millions off the game, and Nike shoes
Projected diplomatic personas ---
they were anything but
Michael Jordan, 6 Rings, Greatest of All Time
A trash-talker, who spewed venom and slime
Kobe Bryant, 'the assassin,' apologized for sexual assault
Confessed what he'd done, yet admitted 'no fault'
Both were driven to greatness, couldn't stand to lose
A path fraught with danger, whenever abused
Jordan turned to gambling; Kobe suffered no fools
With their fame and their fortunes, they could play fast with the rules
Charles Barkley, Jordan's rival, observed, "Heroes, we ain't!"
~ Consider it well, before anointing Kobe Bryant a saint
Categories:
barkley, basketball, hero, sad, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Summer Shimmers
In my rear vision
Its super hot
But i dare not stop
Here
On the ruddy Barkley
If i get out
This car
I will become instant
Yum cha
As its steaming
Ruddy hot
Here on the Barkley
Theres no picnic to be had
At the dusty rest stop
The furnace of hell
Blows across the plain
Here
On the ruddy Barkley
Stark raving mad
Ye have to be
To drive the
Ruddy Barkley
Come the wet
I hit the grid at the border
Doing 140
Out here on the
Ruddy Barkley
No cop at the shop
To slow me down
3 ways at one end
Mt Isa the other
Camooweal
Yeah nah
Pay 5 star for none
Not much choice
Out here on
The ruddy Barkley
The fuels getting low
But i aint
Pulling me foot
As i cant wait
To finish the
Ruddy Barkley
Categories:
barkley, car, imagery, moving on,
Form: Free verse
A Farewell To Arms
I was expecting our first child.
Catherine, in love with Frederic,
was also happily pregnant.
She awakened unexpected,
strong, deep, overwhelming
maternal feelings inside me...
I felt how she felt...the love...
the fears, the anticipation...
and those hormonal tears.
Their beloved baby...stillborn;
mommy Catherine passes too.
So traumatic..broken hearts
full of hurt and grief.
And, there I was, my eyes
full of tears...heart full of fears,
chest heaving in sobs,
as I held and wrapped my arms
around my unborn child.
So precious is this new life
I am bringing into this world.
Sandra M. Haight
~2nd Place~
Contest: Life Lesson From a Favourite Novel
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
Judged: 02/20/2018
Note: "A Farewell To Arms," by Ernest Hemingway. Character Frederic Henry is an American officer serving in an ambulance unit for the Italian Army during World War I. Catherine Barkley, is a Red Cross nurse he had met earlier, near the front, and they engage in an affair, and she becomes pregnant.
Categories:
barkley, emotions, inspirational, romance, world
Form: Free verse
Favorite Movie
Ernest Hemingway's book,
"A Farewell To Arms" was
made for movie theaters
and stirred my emotions
in the year 'fifty-eight.
It was a big hit then.
Since I was with child,
Catherine awakened
such deep maternal
feelings inside me.
I felt how she felt.
Sad times ahead.
Baby born dead;
mother passes.
So traumatic.
Broken hearts;
sober scenes
full of grief.
My eyes,
full of
tears.
Sandra M. Haight
~1st Place~
Contest: Favorite Movie
Sponsor: Nayda Ivette Negron
Judged: 01/24/2016
Six Stanzas: Syllables: 6-5-4-3-2-1
A Farewell to Arms is a 1957 American drama film directed by Charles Vidor, based on Ernest Hemingway's book of the same name. Characters Frederick Henry (Rock Hudson) is an American officer serving in an ambulance unit for the Italian Army during World War I. Catherine Barkley (Jennifer Jones), is a Red Cross nurse he had met earlier, near the front, and they engage in an affair.
Categories:
barkley, emotions, film,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse