We didn't have much stuff
...We didn’t have much stuff
We weren’t poor
Or so we were told
Ya got one pair of shoes
Maybe sneakers in the summer
A few “hand-me-downs”
A “cold water flat” in the city
An old black cast iron ...
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Categories:
baseball glove, age, life, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Journeys
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A baseball glove lies on its back
in a trunk of items
once fresh and youthful
now discarded for
love and marriage
perhaps a stroller
whose blue-eyed
blue-bootied
occupant ...
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Categories:
baseball glove, baby, baseball, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Childhood
...Childhood
As I close my eyes and drift back in time
The thoughts of being young come to mind
When I was four, people were as tall as trees
Looking ahead, all I saw was knuckles and knees
Whe...
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Categories:
baseball glove, childhood, children, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
I Know Nothing
...The dog's at the door
Leash, collar, mask, rubber paw pads
The cat's doing three to five for
Shredding the toilet paper
The FBI fingerprint lab
Has ceased operation
Arrests are down
Everyone's...
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Categories:
baseball glove, family, fate, funny,
Form: List
Happy Father's Day
...You’re my Dad that proudly introduced me to the race cars and sports, from spark plugs & curve balls to the other manly cool sorts!
You’re my Father that explored with me the adventures of hunting...
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Categories:
baseball glove, appreciation, christian, fathers day,
Form: Chant Royal
Joy To a Child's Eyes
...A family trip to the beach on a sunny day,
Having a friend come over to play,
Kites flying way up high,
Brings joy to a child’s eyes.
Learning to ride a brand new bike,
Going to a nature tra...
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Categories:
baseball glove, child, family, happy, travel,
Form: Quatrain
Symbols Like Asterixes Has Been Done Already So Best Call It 333650 Floating Biscuits
...A granny in a brightly lit flower frock is neither a spinning wheel or a basket of multi coloured wools. Multi coloured wools are very very useful indeed for wool wafts wonderful warmth. And warmth i...
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Categories:
baseball glove, anti bullying, , cute,
Form: I do not know?
My Baseball Glove
...my Macgregor glove
my other true love
for so many years
taken away fears
you made me a some-body
no longer a no-body
through high school and the navy
when my life wasn't gravy
after t...
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Categories:
baseball glove, baseball, life,
Form: Couplet
The Outfield Boy
...The outfield boy stands waiting all alone,
playing the game that many children love.
From the pitcher’s mound, a ball has been thrown.
The outfield boy stands waiting all alone.
The ball ...
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Categories:
baseball glove, baseball, boy,
Form: Triolet
Jigsaw
...Children laughing when at play, bright sun rising to greet the day
Sweet cream added in my morning coffee, horses munching hay
A rusty nut that just breaks free, an ancient majestic noble tree
Win...
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Categories:
baseball glove, happiness,
Form: Lyric
Play Ball
...Somewhere there’s a baseball
Shivering in the cold
Somewhere there’s a baseball glove
Afraid of growing old.
Somewhere there’s a baseball bat
Some weary cleats - sweat stained hat.
Somewh...
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Categories:
baseball glove, baseball, childhood, sports, spring,
Form: Verse
I See Him There
...I see him there,
The one I love.
I see him there,
With a baseball glove.
His mind is just like my dad's,
Making it like mine.
He's good at math,
And so am I.
We both like science,
An...
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Categories:
baseball glove, feelings, god, longing, love
Form: Couplet
The Hush of Christmas Past
...The Hush of Christmas Past
It came more slowly then.
After Thanksgiving
the lights and decorations
started showing up.
The excitement started to build.
Santa showed up at the
department st...
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Categories:
baseball glove, childhood, christmas, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Somewhere
...Somewhere
Somewhere there’s a baseball
Shivering in the cold
Somewhere there’s a baseball glove
Afraid of growing old.
Somewhere there’s a baseball bat
Some weary cleats and sweat sta...
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Categories:
baseball glove, baseball, spring,
Form: Rhyme
How We Stand
...The baseball glove I never wore
Is kept within this box
With a first place ribbon partly torn
From the medal at the top...
And a letter mom asked me to mail
That had begged you to come home
B...
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Categories:
baseball glove, absence
Form: Light Verse
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