Baseball Golf Poems

These are the best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part V

Just Smile
by Michael R. Burch

We'd like to think some angel smiling down
will watch him...

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These are the best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part II

The Locker
by Michael R. Burch

All the dull hollow clamor has died
and what was contained,
removed,
reproved
adulation...

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Ali’s Song
by Michael R. Burch

They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful,...

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People always tell me that  

What to do with my bat  

After practicing a bit  

I will try to make a hit...

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Why so serious
Have some fun
Game has begun
Tan tana tan
Tana tana tan
Have some fun
Don't inject me
Don't use gun
Tan tana tan
Tana tana tan
Have some fun..
When nothing goes...

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True & False
Indo Pak True And False Theory
1.Islam came from Saudi Arabia.True or False
2.Ignorance is insult of human intelligence.True or False
3.Bilingual means Hindko Hindi.True or...

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the large bouncy ball nestles in the basket
  the small bumpy one rolls into the hole
the hard, seamed one flies over the stadium fence
...

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They've thrown down the gauntlet
The Asians have a golf 'major' now won
Hideki Matsuyama, Masters Tournament Champion
The first from the Land of the Rising Sun

Ms. Naomi...

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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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After chewing shoe leather they called steak, 
in the Pencey cafeteria, 
Mal, Ackley, and I enjoyed a winter afternoon on campus, 
on the bus, and...

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Hyperbole is a sports cast
Announcers have egos so vast
My ears must have rest
From this lambasting pest
Collection of morons amassed


Author's note: Is it getting worse, or...

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wait a minute this isn’t baseball
I won't be able to hit that ball
bigger than marble 
unpredictable
in hole it will fall
I'll swing in that hole the...

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You Know

By Elton Camp

The conversation has only begun
When I realize it is with a moron.
On every thought he does bestow
The foolish phrase, “You know.”

Just how...

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