Yesterdays
The shuttlecock's not got a feather
my balls have lost their tether
yo-yo and hula hoop have gone for a loop
chasing rainbow's become a boring chore
in any kind of weather
and me I fling and fly frisbees no more
as now there's come the day
when games and music I can't play
the fiddle has a broken bow
out of wind such
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Categories:
frisbee, games, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
fairways
Lisa and I played a round of frisbee-disc golf today—let’s reminisce.
I love the ‘live performance’ of sports, how you must physicalise
discipline. You get this instant feedback that you have to own and
lean hard into. The being present to adjust, the internalised mechanisms of performance—the ‘liveness’—is the most exciting thing about sports. And, of course, the
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Categories:
frisbee, golf, perspective, school, sports,
Form: Free verse
frisbee poem
A crowded open space
Green grass and trees all around
People yelling and playing
Im being thrown far into the air
I glide far and high and I can see everything
I fall back down towards the ground and then i'm caught
I get thrown again and i glide through the air and again i can see all around
I get caught
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Categories:
frisbee, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Carnival Frisbee
This Frisbee here turned upside down
It never flew quite right
Landing on a post and spinning round
Like circus plates just out of flight
It's edges all inverted
Said a clown that caught the sight
What happens when you flip it?
Then it stopped just out if spite.
Ringmaster waved it left and west
Then to the east and took a bite
He chipped
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Categories:
frisbee, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Frisbee Dog
The man took me to the Dog Park, I think his name is Jim.
He brought along a round thing, a disk made out of plastic.
He put it close by my nose, so I sniffed it round the rim.
I've sniffed vinyl many times, and didn't think it fantastic.
Then Jim became animated. His eyes became alert.
Then he
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Categories:
frisbee, dog, pets,
Form: Rhyme
New Short Story Posted - Thunderstorm
I have another long-ish piece - too long for here - called "thunderstorm"
It's about a around of frisbee-golf cut short by a storm
I know I could take things out - cut the piece to fit the brief "poem-section" limits - but then it's not what I wanted to say *shrug*
Here's the URL: https://www.poetrysoup.com/short_stories/thunderstorm_9491
I
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Categories:
frisbee, friendship, golf, morning, teen,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
frisbee, dog, fun, games, nature,
Form: Haiku
Frisbee Dog
Yesterday I was walking in the early morning fog
When I stopped at the edge of a field to watch a man and his Frisbee dog.
The man would throw his Frisbee east, west, north or south
the dog would chase it, jump up in the air and catch it in his mouth.
Next that dog would trot that
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Categories:
frisbee, dog, life,
Form: Verse