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Gehrig Poems - Poems about Gehrig

Lou Gehrig's ease

...We've heard of ALS
as "Lou Gehrig's disease"
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
a cause to pray on our knees

But Lou Gehrig felt he was
"the luckiest man on earth"*
the Yankees, and his wife
the ...

Categories: gehrig, appreciation, baseball, dedication, life,
Form: Rhyme

A Song With No Name

...A Song With no Name
From my grandfather and my dad and performed by their son and grandson, me.
It was an old melody with no name of a ballad my grandfather wrote a long time ago.
The melody was s...

Categories: gehrig, father, grandfather, music, song,
Form: Free verse

Play Ball

...I have attempted to capture my favorite major league baseball players in this little shape poem of home plate. Included are (in no particular order):

Say Hey Willie Mays                        Wal...

Categories: gehrig, baseball,
Form: Shape

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Baseball By the Numbers

...Some numbers tumble down the hallowed halls of baseball’s past -
a sport of numbers after all, these memories hold fast.
Stan Musial wore #6, Lou Gehrig, #4;
the “luckiest man in all the earth”, g...

Categories: gehrig, baseball,
Form: Rhyme

Lou Gehrig, Peerless

...I'm the luckiest man on earth, Lou Gehrig had said
Two months later, the greatest Yankee was dead
   Gehrig suffered from ALS, a fatal disease
   He peered beyond the pain, his words a fresh breez...

Categories: gehrig, baseball, pain, visionary,
Form: Clerihew

The Call of the Alpha Male

...Robin Hood, man in tights
Julius Caesar, might makes right
Alexander, called "the Great"
Sitting Bull, righteous hate
Robert the Bruce, Attila the Hun
Charlemagne, Napoleon

Hear the c...

Categories: gehrig, funny, hero, humorous, men,
Form: Light Verse

Bronx Teacher 2010

...153 Street Station is clean
Down sturdy metal steps through 
old Yankee Stadium field
where Ruth and Gehrig ran.

Pungent in the nostrils piss follows me
Up the hill where supers sweep trash 
...

Categories: gehrig, educationworld,
Form: Narrative

The New York Yankees

...The New York Yankees have made winning a tradition.
They’ve won for years despite periodic transition.
Since the twenties, the Yankees have won many a game.
Their yearly teams had many players ach...

Categories: gehrig, dedication, sports
Form: Rhyme

The Deadball Era

...when it comes to baseball
there was one team that we shall
remember from it's past

it's the nineteen twenty seven 
        N.Y Yankees

amidst this legendary collection 
you shall find the h...

Categories: gehrig, adventure, childhood, dedication, education,
Form: Free verse

Dream of Celebrities Ii

...Well, here I am again, with my tales from the night before.
Just when you thought you heard it all, here I am with more.
Remember back in “one” of the tales I told to you,
Well please sit back and...

Categories: gehrig, fantasy, funny, happiness, old,
Form: Quatrain