Baseball Dark Poems

The Tapestry of Leaves
Michael R. Burch

Leaves unfold
as life is sold
or bartered, for a moment in the sun.

The interchange
of lives is strange:
what reason—life—when death leaves all...

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7/5/21
"Seventh Heaven (007)"

According to local legend
Regarding the Great Depression 
And Armageddon

Nearing seventh heaven
Still on that 007
Sent him and her toward hell or heaven
Close to or...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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It's the top of the first inning
  Fans 'still filing into the park'
Tho' the game's now beginning
  It's quiet, you can hear in...

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Sometimes, in the dead of night
When all our fast asleep
We are startled awake by a loud and pernicious
Rapping sound, a bang bang banging sound

Like someone,...

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In an irrevocable warp speed instant, 
my head collided into the likeness of drying tar, 
absorbing each horrid layer of concrete. 
That pitch-black, tacky substance...

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They keep us turning down the halls like cattle 
Keep your eyes up
Face forward
No phones
Stay in routine
You’ve done this for so many years now
No distractions
Don’t...

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You and I we're breathing corpses
Collapsing feelings of underdogs
Bitter realities that enfold our lives
Our hearts keep beating amid the pain
We'd spend summer nights in vain
The...

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1

We say the word, “mental”,
like we would spit.
But there are no pills
for waking dreams;
the pills that we 
could only take in dreams
to take us to...

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PSYCHOTIC JOURNEY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Feeling really beat,  I went to bed early last night
Suddenly awakened feeling something’s not right
There was total darkness, I was not...

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Finally reaching the ending
No longer spend time pretending 
Relinquishing bonds and ties
Visual prowess possess my eyes
I see the bitter truth
Taking eye for eye tooth for...

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The sky was red 
With the fear of the dead
Everywhere was dark and there was a sudden movement in the park 
He was awaken from...

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I crept into the pit of hell all alone. Contingent upon my lifestyle I knew this could be my last day alive…

She haunted me in...

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Future


Sentimental memories;
Dreams of yesterday.
Wishing for a better opportunity,
To somehow change our ways.


This is our life, our time, our day;
Seize it with both hands,
Because today will...

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The rent boys, too tired now from their 
work with old men in the night, lol lazily
on their bicycles, scratching their 
pale whiskers; 

but whiskers...

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