Baseball Growth Poems

A fireman, at age three
    I surely was destined to be

  At age four
    a fireman no more
...

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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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In heat and dust
With rafters, bare,
My dormant past
Sits neatly stacked:
Those baseball cleats,
Texts obsolete,
Her wedding gown,
Their baby crib,
It all wrapped up
With dim gray light
And cherished in
My...

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Unwelcome, Youth embraces
Pasting emotions on faces
Naive to what life advancing will be
Nonchalant, spontaneous and carefree
Youth you will not age relay
Till your idle presence, is snatched...

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There was once a child much like any other. No mother, no father, just a loving grandmother. An only child, lost to imaginary friends and...

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The torn Rawlings symbol,

old worn leather

faded light brown,

fingers coming apart.

In its web pocket, 

sits a ball, which is

almost as abused,

as the leather. 

Back then,

it was...

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Fighting Depression
We’ll defeat this enemy
We’ll soar like eagles

Edward J. Ebbs - 09/27/14...

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Fifty years, boy and man, I’ve been a Sooners fan;
And watched thousands of recruits try to make my Sooners Team.
Often, I’ve enviously wondered what it...

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To play as if today
Is your only chance.
Some say, “It’s just a game.”
Have they done the Victory Dance?

When hard-earned Victory
Was finally at hand,
Have they felt...

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Pretty princesses
Dancing all around
Frolicking through fields
Very beautiful
Just like you!...

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