Baseball Free Verse Poems

The grandfather on my mother's side was a cheapskate. 
A real cheapskate.
One Christmas, he gave me a used paperback book.
Something like “Jimmy Plays Baseball.”
It was...

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Diving for the ball,
Balling into a dust-
Orange roll,
The catcher tossed it back to the pitcher
After a ball three, and walked up to him.
The descent of...

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I said I ain't been on no bike
He said, 'Well, there it is.'

Premature baldness and popcorn muscles
I told him I got a B in History

He...

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I know I should be extremely grateful
For God's gift of life
But I have no life at all

Trapped like a rat
Behind four foreboding  walls
No one...

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A wise poet said:
“You are captain of your own ship!”
My employer said: “Not here, Buddy!”
My wife said, “Yes dear, after you take
out the garbage and...

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Life is a circle. 
Situations are a mixture. 
A circle of thinkable and unthinkable
opportunities gets you jumping irrelevantly. 
The slipy nature of happiness goes in haste; 
you want...

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I can do it, I swear...I can do it 

I'm going to hit a home run. 
I'm going to hit a home run...
Farther than any...

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In the tapestry of divine embrace,
Aspect of God, woven with grace.
Indivisible from the cosmic whole,
A presence ensouls, a sacred soul.

Feeble form, ordained to unfold,
On earthly...

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Come sit by the fire... let's reminisce
About this and that, about what makes us sing
Watching a robin take its first flight
Or a squirrel scurrying up...

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I look up at the skies above me 

 to describe how I was feeling  

but there was no color in the sky ...

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I got tired of losing
So much goddamn losing
Losing friends
homes
Hobbies
Moving to new towns and cities
Familiar faces of people I never met
Those who lived for years in...

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elderly people        some
         with walkers or canes,
teams opposite each other,
...

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The Cost of a Human Life

I sat as an observer
in a state’s superior court.
First-degree murder was the charge.
Cold blooded calculated murder was the act.
One teen...

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if...
a philosophy may...

be
a full-loss-of-fee
or
a phi-loss-of-why
or
a full-loss-of-phi

and...a diction-airy be

as
a thesaurus that
be
as the-soar-us
or
as the-sour-us
or
as the-sore-us

then...use your mental wording

as came-bridged in the mind
that
a meant-all-diction can
sew
a conversation without
being
a converse...

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Who were they?

They walked to and from school when they were younger.
They had to complete their homework alone before they were allowed to go out...

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