Best Grandstands Poems

When I was young, I wanted to run away to the circus.  Then one day I realized the circus was life!  Are we not the clown, the strongman, the freak, the daredevil?  Is there not personal sorrow and the desperate search for...

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It’s the great American pass time that will never die,
The thundering sport called baseball, as the grand
Old flag waves in the breeze, of everlasting freedom above
The sacred stadium on opening day!
It’s the roaring of the exploding crowds, as their team
Players are called out by name,...

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P olitical panic and protests abound
O n every front, no peace can be found
L ists are long with our discontent
I nternal strife, a nation's torment
T otal chaos erupts every day
I s this the year of our shame and dismay?
C onstant upheaval, false promises abound
A s...

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The Market place is empty
No more traffic in the streets
All the builders tools are silent
No more time to harvest wheat
Busy housewives cease their labors
In the courtroom no debate
Work on earth has been suspended
As the King comes thro' the gate
The King is coming
The King is coming
I...

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a decuain 

I walked the fairgrounds 1962,
a penny for my thoughts at age thirteen.
I loved to gather up loose coins with Hugh
the grandstands cleared out, we would start to “clean”
I walked the fairgrounds 2015,
just looking for cover, in case it rains.
Too old for bending, Hugh...

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My vote matters for the same reasons that I MATTER.
My presence is like life-giving WATER.
My vote is far more than POLITICAL.
Rather, it is the voice of PRINCIPLE.
My right to free speech is clear as the DAY. 
It is my right to have my SAY.
My vote...

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First half of the month cooler, then the second half warmer

Spring clocks turned forward, daylight lasting longer

Games of gold always told, losing harassed nine-fold

Allowed homers and walked batters that would be never

Scrimmage full of big time moments given, at the end guilt-ridden,

but rainy days getting...

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Three long years ago
I first entered these marbled walls
Now with glory and honor pride
Intervened in me we go down in history
On through the day we celebrate
All those electives
We forget  our enemy's our foes rejoicing now in love
And ignore bitter's hate
As we walk across the...

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Across the board are my bishops and pawns opening a battling door!
And my castles corner your kings well-planned out bonjour.
Holding sturdy ground, my queen gets caught in between your most brilliant liaisons.
Strategically bound expected as unexpected shifts balance bronze colored hoards
Consuming thoughts accumulate energized by...

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(alternately titled: idolizing childhood's end
today April 25th, 2021
generates elusive warm treasured memories).

Akin to significance my eldest sister
felt toward her “Willies” –
(totally tubular fuzzy bendable contrivances
analogous to an outsize pipe cleaner)
until she became a tweener
my Matty Mattel Doll (circa mid 1960's) 
meant the webbed wide world...

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My son, my dear son, do not think it to be strange
when you find yourself going through a bad patch.
When things get hard, you must become harder still.
Look up to God, even when it seems He is not there,      ...

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Asleep while awake
Walking among the living
Trying hard to break
The monotony and gluttony misgiving

Lends to the sultry atmosphere
Saturated with dope
As departed souls in the troposphere
Perambulate on cumulus clouds grope

For eternity in serenity
Ensconced in minds so busy
They vie for dignity
In a world so clumsy

Life stifles freedom
In a...

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So much of our Life is filled with fun and games.
Too many think that things will forever be the same.

Everyone continues with their own personal business, 
While there are yet others struggling in hopelessness.

Some are blinded by fog, dark clouds, doom and gloom.
There is a...

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With head high and lifted up,
Saturated with ambitions,
Impregnated with goals,
You reach for the stars
And long to go far.
With plans in hand,
You climb the grandstands,
Only to fine locked windows
And closed doors.
"Not to worry", said I;
"Never look back", said I;
"Don't quit, said I;
"Keep rising", said I.
You say...

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All knowing spiritual light muse of an inner owl
The grandfather of all the poetry’s best kinds of fowl,
Omnipotent in my soul, a vital and enormous part of me.
Shining my truth and my tragedies for other poets to see

Sharing my truth in a way that never...

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