Rose Baseball Poems

What Is Happening?

Yes, the little Genie asked
What is happening?
Children aren’t being taught
To tell time,
They can’t look at the clock and
Know whether it’s one o’clock
Or it’s...

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I once was in a pickle between 1st and 2nd base
I wasn't in a jar but I saw the pitchers face
It was a sour type...

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Written April 14, 2017


It's easy to fall in love
Even easier to break apart
I've been trying for six long years
To mend this broken heart

You used to...

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The best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part IV

King Henry the Great
by Michael R. Burch

Long live the King! 
Send him victorious, 
happy and glorious,...

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These are the best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part II

The Locker
by Michael R. Burch

All the dull hollow clamor has died
and what was contained,
removed,
reproved
adulation...

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Poems about Children V

Pan
by Michael R. Burch

Among the shadows of the groaning elms,
amid the darkening oaks, we fled ourselves

Once there were paths that led to...

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Poems about Children IV

Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch

Dedicated to the memory of my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch, Sr.

I remember how my grandfather used to pick...

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hey pete
by Michael R. Burch
 
hey pete,
it's baseball season
and the sun ascends the sky,
encouraging a schoolboy's dreams
of winter whizzing by;
go out, go out and catch...

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I rose from bed this morning at 4am and shortly thereafter I opened The front
 door and window.  That's when I saw September waiting...

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To know just where your're going

You must know where you've been

You must respect the history

The things others have seen

It's true in all things relative

Be it...

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waking up in the morning with a cheerful glee
happiness is all we see
delicious smell of mom's cook
given to you while reading a book 
living a...

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If a raindrop
 could represent
 the love in
 a man's life

 a rose would grow
 being much like love itself
 starting at the bottom
 with...

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THEN AND THEN
                      ...

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The Monstarrette mysterious mountainous  MAVERICK MANSION. 
STILL MAINTAINS its master piece LEGACY. WITH  its 12 bedrooms,
8 bathrooms.  A BEAUTY NO DOUBT. ...

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Shoeless Joe Jackson
and Charlie Hustle Pete Rose
reinstate them both...

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