Best Training Poems

We crawl before we walk
  Make sounds before we talk
Put training wheels on our first bike
  Warm up a bit before a long hike

Mom reads to you before the teacher do
  You practive writing your name at home, too
Do you really learn...

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Pick them at random, the best way to start.
The very old or very young are the easiest to part,
With the info you need to get the ball rolling.
You scare them at first and then start cajoling.

By gaining their trust and becoming their friend,
You'll get access...

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Half of the teams are headed to Florida.
The other half will journey to Arizona.
Yes fans, everybody can let out a cheer.
Another baseball spring training is here.
Pitchers and catchers report first to duty.
They are followed by the other players shortly.
It is just the beginning of a...

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Why is the pitcher in for only two innings or three?
Spring training is going on right now, you see.
From a long winter, veterans scrape off the rust.
Rookies trying to make the team hope it’s not a bust.
They work hard to earn the manager's trust.
You will...

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My mum thinks I'm so smart, 
She puts me in the shopping cart,
I always point out what to buy,
Sometimes my mum gives me a sigh,
Good shopping is an art....

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The smell of peanuts,
The crack of the bat—HOME RUN!
Spring Training, welcome.

Submitted for Carol Brown 's "Waiting for Spring" contest...

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I wade into the water that is my aquatic sun,
suited to perform miracles, refusing reprieve until work is done. 
I exist as a modern day Hercules, striving to discover my strength,
seeking beneath the surface, striving to greater lengths.
My arms tremor, causing ships to break apart,...

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Today,
I wake energetic, 
lungs clearing of lingering tobacco fog.
Kinetic energy, thoughts of poetry
inhabit my mind during my morning jog.
First at slow speed to warm up my thighs.
Long strides, deep breaths, my afro bounces in my eye.

I stop at this pavilion about a hundred yards in,
pull...

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(Prov. 22: 6 /  Heb. 5: 14  /  Deut. 6: 6-9  /  2 Tim. 3: 13-15, 16  /  Matt. 19: 13, 14)


- cont. - from Part 1



And The Same Can Be Said
Of A Young Child’s Impressionable Mind
It Needs...

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(Prov. 22: 6 /  Heb. 5: 14  /  Deut. 6: 6-9  /  2 Tim. 3: 13-15, 16  /  Matt. 19: 13, 14)


(Part One of Two)



If A Child Wants To Eat Candy
All Day Long …
When You Tell Them ‘No!’...

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Little helper of fur,take your kitty under your wing.
He was lost,now is found.
Broken leg took off the ground.
Nestled embrace.
Kitty carried to the door.
Exercise complete.
We train no more.
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I took my father 
Out into the garden 
And banged my head 
Against the brick wall 
Three times 
While he was saying 
That the azaleas 
Were doing fine. 

When I banged my head again, 
He told me the grass 
Needed cutting 
And the fence 
Was...

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For it was 29 years ago 
When as I boy I left home
On the train other lads I find
Apprehensive blind leading the blind

When we got to our destination 
Shouting started is this an allucination 
Standing still waiting for orders 
That corporal from the Scottish Borders

Get...

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For all things 
There is a time
Time to serve
Others uncompressed
Gaining all they need
Making less
The one who gave
So much so
That they ran away
Only to come back
Taking it's rightful place
With small thanks
Unasked...

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Potty Training

Today I tried to teach my son
How to use the potty, oh what a treat
He sat and sat and sat and sat
While I tapped my feet

After what seemed like an hour
Finally I gave in
And placed a diaper on his butt
As my patience ran too...

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