Time Hockey Poems

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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My son draws images 
On a scroll-like object 
Storyboarding
At the age of five
He is learning that time is linear
When it isn't
He loves his watch 
How...

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my ice covered lake
skating~hockey~ice fishing
fun for young and old


 
Date Written: 1/16/2022  
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6 Place  

Winter HaikuContest Judged: 1/17/2022   
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin...

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In my hometown as a wee child.

It felt like I had walked several a mile.

To a place where I always had fun.

Where my passion for...

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Dad,
I loved it when you showed me how to hammer in a nail.
The many times at the lake you carried my shovel and my pail.
When...

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I saw a hockey game last night
It was there that I saw the fight
The one that some saw as a brawl
While others stated, “It’s part...

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We called ourselves the Heptcats
known on the ice as rink rats
Thomas, Don, Stephen, and me
and the Gardner bothers three,
Clark, Andrew, and Little Joe
to the arena,...

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You can call it love
That I know for sure
But, I think it is something else
Something so much more

It's a feeling like no other
You know it...

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Small city arena long out of date,
that is where this B-league team plays their games,
young men learning, hopes for fortune and fame.
I watch the practice,...

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In time we find light that was not so much a remembrance of character void, 

or a psalm of the heterogeneous unlimited focus-

or stance of...

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hockey season
the widow making
opposing camps



posted on August 11, 2018...

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You know that summertime is gone
		when a chill is in the air
		when snow is in the forecast
		and hockey sticks appear
		when kids with toques and earmuffs
		show...

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The Game of Hockey 

By Government decree, lacrosse
Is Canada’s national sport,
But in the hearts and minds of Canadians,
Hockey rules supreme.
Hockey is a winter sport enjoyed...

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I shot the puck across the ice,
Straight for the goal but it took a slice,
Right off the nose of their defenseman,
When I steal that puck...

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Their game was over and they got on the bus
With the usual teenage chatter and fuss.

Driving down the highway with never a care
Not a one...

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