A Speech With Two Motives
...Kirk goes back to practised cadence,
With it he hits ears, no conscience,
Great stir in a once mute audience,
Afresh bides his time: Great Patience…
Talks triggered between close sitters
That ...
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Categories:
hitters, hate, imagination, inspiration, words,
Form: Rhyme
Play Ball
...Ahh, the boys of summer are back,
Getting ready for some baseball to play.
And while I wish I could join them out there,
That dream has long past from another day.
Yet I...
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Categories:
hitters, baseball, world,
Form: Rhyme
Tarnished Heros
...That bright young President shot down in Dallas
who turned out to be an addict and philanderer.
And don’t get me started on our most
recent former President and his insurrection.
That hundred...
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Categories:
hitters, hero,
Form: Free verse
From Blank Screen To Logorrhea I Write With Confused Adumbrations
...From blank screen to logorrhea, I write with confused adumbrations
Methinks hmm, perhaps
I admittedly self plagiarize and quite aware
aforementioned amalgamated, conglomerated,
fabricated, jer...
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Categories:
hitters, absence, adventure, business, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Best Sports Poems V
...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 as his arm bleeds in the yard,
ripped of...
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Categories:
hitters, america, baseball, basketball, boxing
Form: Rhyme
Doctor
...I be talking crazy when I’m off the yoppas.
But she love how I talk crazy off the yoppas.
I didn’t really want her but you know I got her.
Filled her script like I was a doctor.
Keep the tool...
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Categories:
hitters, drug, hip hop, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
From Blank Screen To Logorrhea I Write With Confused Adumbrations
...From Blank Screen To Logorrhea, I Write With Confused Adumbrations
Methinks hmm, perhaps
aforementioned conglomerated eye gripping titled,
poem already aired
though revisiting said theme
downp...
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Categories:
hitters, adventure, beautiful, celebration, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
The Season's Still Young, But --
...For the last six years, they were an exciting team
They gave fans a championship, a reason to scream
With strong starting pitching, power hitters galore
Come the ninth inning, the Cubs were ah...
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Categories:
hitters, baseball, change, chicago, nostalgia,
Form: Couplet
Dashses Digital
...fuulisdec ascades dash bravened break drastic little pond ex mariner once sadi this
vergreener times two houndered thumder thugga kitty cats plenty of tracks
digital dilusional infuzsions cervival ...
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Categories:
hitters, allah, analogy, anti bullying,
Form: Ballade
Nolan Ryan For Jim Fregosi
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With all due respect to the late Mr. Fregosi,
he was one of the best infielders anyone could see.
However, his later years were plagued with injury.
Jim became involved in the most lopsi...
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Categories:
hitters, baseball, history,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Children V
...Poems about Children V
Pan
by Michael R. Burch
Among the shadows of the groaning elms,
amid the darkening oaks, we fled ourselves
Once there were paths that led to coracles
that clung to ...
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Categories:
hitters, autumn, baseball, child, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers Iv
...Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers IV
Neglect
by Michael R. Burch
What good are your tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is your concern
to a child sick of l...
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Categories:
hitters, family, father, father daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Laughter, Giggles and Smiles
...Here and Hereafter
by Michael R. Burch
Life’s saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ...
wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.
Laughter’s Cry
by Michael R. Burch
Because life is...
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Categories:
hitters, cheer up, children, family,
Form: Rhyme
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...
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Categories:
hitters, baseball,
Form: Rhyme
Amazing One-Third Inning
...Regardless of which field of endeavor you happen to be in, never say never, and never say, "It's over'' until it's over. I was in my garage during chores better known as this, that, and the other, bu...
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Categories:
hitters, baseball, confidence, faith,
Form: Narrative
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