Work Baseball Poems

I can do it, I swear...I can do it 

I'm going to hit a home run. 
I'm going to hit a home run...
Farther than any...

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The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Chapter L.A.

I like to think of [the habit] as a bonfire or a lighthouse, so that light can shine out...

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Have fun playing baseball, hint number one
finish the season though you’ve never won.
Can’t win if you don’t play, work on point two
find the skills you...

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On April 26, 1992 a baby boy was born to parents that did not want him. The parents chose to not abort, instead of terminating...

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Cornelius McGillicuddy
     Conservative fuddy-duddy

        Though he shortened his name to Connie Mack
  ...

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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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A killer with a bat, he knocks it
         out of the park!
     ...

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October announces autumn's cool weather.
Red, yellow, brown and some green
embellish the sky and horizon with color.
Blessed is the harvest of summer's hard work.
Orange carvings decorate...

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Another baseball season begins and as teams vie for fortune and for fame…I’m reminded of the time I tried to teach my children….

THE INTRICACIES OF...

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It didn’t work out. *sigh*
What were the odds? Statistics...
 - love isn’t baseball.

Where do regrets start?
Should I regret the sunset
 - or mourn holding hands?

Or...

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BASEBALL

Walking by an empty stadium I was reminded the other day
of when we took our children to the ball park to watch grown men at...

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I’m not sure
I have the strength anymore
To be discovered

Stepping into the cold black lake of February
Clopping to work in frozen slop
Snow snarling at my ankles

Car...

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GROWING UP ACROSS THE STREET FROM 
TIGER STADIUM HAS ITS ADVANTAGE
AND DISADVANTAGES.
BEING A YOUNGSTER 
HOT HUMID MUGGY SUMMER NIGHT.
DETROIT MICHIGAN.
JULY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND 73
WOULD TURN...

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...Sophia was a novelist,
and her first book, a surprise smash.
she rubbed elbows with litearti,
had pretensions to be high class.
They praised her novel so, so much,
even...

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A FATHER, HIS CHILDREN AND BASEBALL

A father remembers years ago taking his children to the ballpark on a bright and sunny day.
They sat together in...

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