Time Baseball Poems

  The more other sports change
     the more baseball stays the same

  Bleeding fans as well as talented players
...

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"Know your value. Confidence breeds success. Act like the person you want to become, and people will start seeing you as that person." ~ Mark...

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I am a brand new baseball.
The pitcher waits for the call.
He holds me tight,
Until the time is right.

The pitcher lets me go.
Through the air I...

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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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In the realm of dreams, where echoes dance,
"Imagination" takes its chance.

Sparkling realms and cosmic hues,
A kaleidoscope of fanciful views.

I soar on whispers of fantasy's breeze,
Through...

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So much of yesterday I can clearly see.
There was a man duly a part of my history.
He lived up the road a short distance from...

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Written By:  D. Collins


When your head is banging like a deep, bass drum.
Mince a garlic clove and butter on a hot dog bun.
Any strain...

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"If you ask him what time it is he tells you how to build a watch."...

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His father loved baseball…he watched his favorite team religiously…
“It’s a lot like life.” He’d say. “Come and watch a game with me.”

“When it’s your turn...

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Small stadium built in the late forties,
minor-league once, but has been left behind,
built with girders and backless, wooden seats,
a local relic of an older time.
The...

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Many parts of life's puzzle pieces are not a wonderful life.
Some 50 years ago, my best friend and boss left his wife
And abandoned his four...

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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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Jackie Robinson and I go way way back
To the spring of nineteen forty-six
A Montreal ballpark on a April afternoon
The day the world was transfixed

The colour...

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Times the world overloads me
All I see
Close my ears
Cover their tears
Seek some peace of my own
To protect me from all I've been shown
Since I don't...

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It's not easy becoming a Legendary  
Major League Baseball pitcher.
It never was and will never be.
You get put through the wringer
and hung out to...

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