Best Take One For The Team Poems

A poet's work [like journalists] is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, to start arguments, to shape the world and...

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A Leprechaun’s Christmas Dream 

This story is of a spry little elf’s most sacred special ever dream;
His hope to work one day for Santa Claus...

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Last year I wrote of a Red Sox team
The fans did not exactly scream
They could not swing, field or hit
Last place was theirs, that was...

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As a young man, his world awaited
His thirst for success unabated
Found his niche, hunger unsated
To build a better team

Years went by, his fortunes grew
Ever larger...

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Number 22 in 1963


The prior season and many seasons past had been great for our school. However, the ‘62-’63 season was to prove disastrous for...

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Four long years have past, World Cup here at last
Thirty two teams full of hope, live their dreams
from all over our world, adorers massed 
Within...

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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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I step inside the gaping hole
And think back,
Respond to the attack
From those years gone by,

Create a living out of the unheard cries
Surrounding the dreams
Of a...

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Imagine a life, without worry or hurt, without sadness or happiness, without love or hate, without trust or loyalty, life doesn't have existence , life...

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I was playing near a college town,
people pay money to hear my jokes,
when back-clad fools charged upon stage,
at first I thought it was a hoax.
Then...

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Stepping heavy as the burden of my heart breaks
Heartfelt, never made an effort that was half-hearted  
enough to be coming at your heart in...

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We are prancing in place with a joy that is catching.
Our pony tails are flying; we are dancing and batching.
We are the cheerleaders, so pretty,...

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Three sheets in the wind
And rubbed the wrong way
By a fair weather friend
You must seize the day

Let your hair down 
And lay down the law
Be...

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Copyright © 2009 #233
01/20/2009 // edited: 11/11/2012
(a new way)
"The American Way"


On a 2008 cold brisk Winter's Day
  Americans voted and joined to pray

Changing its...

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Twas the night of the Ladies League Final and the atmosphere was tense
Only two teams were competing, no loyalties allowed on the fence
There could only...

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