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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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