Best Benched Poems

Sitting on this bench     For an entire season     Committed no errors      No...

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What do you do when you're left sitting on a bench
Never allowed to play in the game
They say you're one of the team
It's hard to...

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Wow, Mrs. Claus’ mood change was surely swift!
Hmph, a rift just cause she must wait to use her gifts …
Ho, Ho, NO!  Time out?...

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Cluttering above huddled rooftops
Of sprawling villages 
And shy provincial towns;
Rising sharply amidst swooping
Declinations;
Hesitating when gathering at the
Tangled woodland perimeters of
Outlying greenland bounds,
Jostled apex ridges detach...

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brittle stained jagged fingernails
scratch against the splint hairs
of a cold weathered wooden elbow

an impatient clock had sapped
a once supple leather coat

now requiring constant mending
as homeless...

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'Tis so nice at Christmas time to receive a colorful array of cards,
From kith and kin sending their warmest Yuletide regards.
I don't mind receiving bills...

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I slipped out of gear and dropped my rear end.
I'm lost on this road and I can't find a friend.
The last time I felt this...

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There she was in plain view, clean, brightly colored, and not undercover.
As nice as she was, I don’t know why she was still there and...

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So you took your best shot,
but sadly it rimmed out
Rocket swish arc reached for the brightest star ... 
only to receive 
a missed blastoff launch...

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Only the disturbing wings of the fly
Hissing at the corners of the gravy room
Who died still a puzzle
Straight heads would pass for a lecture room
Black...

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The Life of Bench

A tranquil night opened quizzically 
On an alien world by the park 
Its river revealed soft ripples on the dark waters
Captured and...

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The game just began
With two teams,
On red and the other blue
We in this too,
And all are in...
Fans cheering and some booing 
Yeah! we love y'all...

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Father, we pray for those who are fighting ALS.
Lou Gehrig’s disease benched New York Yankee’s
First base player with over 2,130 consecutive games.
For those who are...

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Sat in the slit
The parting 
bark of a tree
With leaves 
brushing, bashing  and flailing
Like the brash stroke
Of a paddle
Benched beside 
tight in the saddle
Him,...

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THE FIRE IN OUR SOULS 

"Can our inferno be quenched
Two souls longed to be benched
In an atmosphere of flames
No one to blame
Attraction of spiritual planes
We...

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