Lost Golf Poems

In golf's serene domain they lay,
The ball drainers by fairway's bay.
Lakes and ponds with silent grace,
Reflecting challenges golfers face.

Beneath the sky of azure hue,
Glistening mirrors,...

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 Goodbye Smirking Little White Ball

Watch me swing
The ball hops
The ball veers

I am lost
My knees lock
My clubs shake

I am sore
To a tee
I hate golf

1/23/23 

Tricube...

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Oh to have one's heart-string strummed by a 
loving angel-like hand! Like lumps on a head
are those lumps on the heart, a read of life's...

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okk i put i straight 
frorward tape and who care;s and if it will do anygood to mention this will go on and to fail...

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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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Anyone who’s picked up clubs and played out on a golf course,
will know there’s times they lose their cool but later show remorse,
but rarely do...

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i’m running a little late
six months ago i read 
the average life expectancy was 79.5 years
i thought i had time to
finish a couple of home...

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Fred Flintstone
    Felt tingles, down his funny bone,
    While playing his golf ball, he lost control.
   ...

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I'm a lonely golf ball lost in the wood,
hit by a golfer that's not very good.
Honestly I swear,
I don't think he cares.
Maybe taking a few...

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I roam the edge of the roughs, ponds 'n streams
For illusive precious golf spheres per chance
Long looks through silt sifting for glints it seems
That make...

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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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What a great day for golf in the middle of Fall,
feeling quite chipper I drew a smile on my ball.
My confidence rose as I stepped...

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"Just block out memory," the analyst tells me.
Yet images of my friend, emaciated, persist.

His last day - I scream at the nurse,
   ...

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I dreamt of playing golf in Covid times
I cannot play actually as virus confines
Bereft of clubs we threw our balls
Ignoring fairways they hit tree walls
Lost...

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In the middle of the grassy Temple green
with my pretty wife a game of golf serene,
an early morning weekend to spend in peace 
 ...

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