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Reminiscing

... Come sit by the fire... let's reminisce About this and that, about what makes us sing Watching a robin take its first flight Or a squirrel scurrying up a tree The sun coming out from be......Read the rest...

Categories: jackie robinson, psychological,
Form: Free verse

My Brush With An Icon

...Jackie Robinson and I go way way back To the spring of nineteen forty-six A Montreal ballpark on a April afternoon The day the world was transfixed The colour barrier that existed in ba......Read the rest...

Categories: jackie robinson, baseball, celebration, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

Mother of Jackie Robinson

...I can hear what Jackie Robinson's mother is saying right now. "Batter up, even when I am making biscuits so that I can be baking them." She is 100 today.......Read the rest...

Categories: jackie robinson, allegory, analogy,
Form: I do not know?

Baseball Is Like a Religion To Me

...Baseball is like a religion to me Those long ago years still linger on The Montreal Royals The years of Jackie Robinson At Delorimier Stadium In the east end Montreal My dad and me out......Read the rest...

Categories: jackie robinson, baseball,
Form: Free verse

A Time When Color Has No Meaning

...There will come a time when color Has no meaning to our neighbor Like it was in the beginning. Life for the world will be kinder. Harriet Tubman, born a slave, Dedicated her life to save Peop......Read the rest...

Categories: jackie robinson, freedom,
Form: Rubaiyat

Jackie Robinson

...Well howdy doody my name is Jack Isn't much history this old dude lacks Even Jackie Robinson Dad and I saw game one First black player ever to get untracked......Read the rest...

Categories: jackie robinson, devotion,
Form: Limerick

The Glory of Life

...Come sit by the fire... let's reminisce About this and that, about what makes us sing Watching a robin take its first flight Or a squirrel scurrying up a tree The sun coming out from behi......Read the rest...

Categories: jackie robinson, life,
Form: Free verse

Jersey Number 42 Retire Please

...Number 42 Retire Brooklyn Dodgers Number 42 Hang up your jersey, honey No one can follow you after Jackie Robinson Major League Baseball was uplifted into the outer sphere When Jackie Robinson......Read the rest...

Categories: jackie robinson, baseball, inspiration, inspirational, racism,
Form: Free verse

Jackie Robinson

...The incomparable Jackie Robinson who wore "42" rose to prominence and... broke the Major League Baseball color barrier In 1947, and had a 10-year All-S......Read the rest...

Categories: jackie robinson, celebrity, people, tribute,
Form: Clerihew

Antipoem 31 Rita Montero

...AntiPoem 31 “Rita Montero” (Poet’s instruction: Kindly play “Ay, Mama Inez” by Rita Montero while reading this AntiPoem) a red trolley finds Ebbets Field behind a pigtown ditch significant h......Read the rest...

Categories: jackie robinson, baseball, discrimination, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme

Antipoem 4 Santo and Johnny

...AntiPoem 4 “Santo and Johnny” (Poet’s instruction- Play “Sleepwalk” twice by Santo and Johnny while reading) Santo and Johnny play Sleepwalk on Fender steel and bass Just oozing out their mel......Read the rest...

Categories: jackie robinson, memory,
Form: Free verse

Address Me By My Name

...I am black, I am not a curse I would appreciate if you could stop Addressing me as the world's worse I am a human So there isn't any need for you to treat me inhumane Like you, I am a person wh......Read the rest...

Categories: jackie robinson, black african american, color,
Form: Free verse

My Brush With An Icon

...Jackie Robinson and I go way way back To the spring of nineteen forty-six A Montreal ballpark on an April afternoon The day the world was transfixed The color barrier that existed in ba......Read the rest...

Categories: jackie robinson, memory,
Form: Narrative

Jackie Robinson

...Growing up in Montreal, there were many great stars Loud cheers for the Royals were heard from the local bars The greatest of them all Jackie Robinson stood tall Jackie's memory remains a......Read the rest...

Categories: jackie robinson, hero,
Form: Limerick

What Would You Do If

...What if you were born in the 1800's? What if your nose was triangular? What if your skin color were 3 shades of bronze, brown or black ......Read the rest...

Categories: jackie robinson, abuse, america, analogy, black
Form: Free verse

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