Mystery Baseball Poems

The Tapestry of Leaves
Michael R. Burch

Leaves unfold
as life is sold
or bartered, for a moment in the sun.

The interchange
of lives is strange:
what reason—life—when death leaves all...

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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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Poems about Children III

Miracle
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

The contrails of galaxies mingle, and the dust of that first day still shines.
Before I conceived you, before...

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American racism
 
I don’t understand it
Well, so they are former slaves
But that was long ago why are they
And the whites harbouring
Resentment about it.
Can’t the let...

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we so often will quiver
 underneath the covers
 why do we even bother
 in a world in so much trouble
 perhaps you'll make my Martini...

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My Hat you will see, when you are looking at me
You will be enchanted and intrigued by this Mystery
My light brown eyes, will draw you...

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The truth hurts me, like a sad love story. 
I try to alter it with dis-belief. 
This with trying make it the truth for people...

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My life has taken a U-turn.
Everything I expected turned the polar opposite way. 
Nothing I ever expected to stay the same was the same. 
It...

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I went to take out the trash
But i began to hear something rustle and thrash
I opened the trash can lid
As if i was a scared...

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Everyone does it time to time in each day
From your careless mistakes to a child at play
Sneaking the babysitter's cigarettes
Having that stray dog follow you...

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