CASEY’S SECOND CHANCE!
...The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day;
The score stood four to two, with but an inning left to play.
And when Cooney fell at first, and Barrows met the same,
A hush of sorrow...
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Categories:
cooney, baseball, destiny, inspirational,
Form: Lyric
Even Steven's
...Every year for seven now I’d helped me mate Tom Cooney out,
along with Laurie ‘Fitz’ and Barry Dore when asparagus did sprout.
We worked our shifts ‘til knock off time, then off we’d quickly dart,
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Categories:
cooney, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Young John Cooney
...Young John Cooney was no troubled lad,
It mattered not that he had no dad;
A loving home and family kept him glad,
He seemed content with his lot, rarely sad.
Young Joh...
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Categories:
cooney, death, family, happy, high
Form: Rhyme
Winter Kittens
...She came in flying sheet of ice an icing on the cake
For that matter idle chatter frisky kitten chilly cold
Oven ready eyes are beady dough is steady simple bake
Funny spicy squashy swishy kitty...
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Categories:
cooney, fun, kid, winter,
Form: Terza Rima
In Memory of Jim Cooney
...You waited to die
Until my brothers and I could stand
Beside your bed, the killer within silently,
slowly devouring all that had been you.
Michael, the youngest, so like you--
His face a mirror of y...
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Categories:
cooney, brother, eulogy, father daughter,
Form: Free verse