Baseball Jesus Poems

In the barn turned snack bar,
I scraped the face of my big toe
ascending the stairs. I didn’t care.
Sucrose sweets, summertime treats
belonged between my loosening teeth

Rotting...

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"Hey Ray," shouted Jason, "After all of this time do  you still believe that the return
of Jesus Christ  is still very imminent?" 

"Hey...

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As Easter approaches, a treasured memory surfaces.
While the commuter trains rolled by a few blocks away;
While the stadium of the Chicago Cubs prepped for baseball;
A...

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Barcelona looked like a church 
as I walked down La Rambla
in search of a vacant room 
on that warm morning.
The balconies of the flanking 
high-rise...

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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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Raise the curtain, 
I am ready. 
Let's write and read together, 
for hours without end. 
Dressing up in costumes, 
singing crazy shanties, 
or Round...

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serving up sum o dat fooreel dough stuff
track one on love
cast the night these folks
love one another
summa tyme jam boar ree!
corner jerk, the ritual
stand up...

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the time is now
to get out of your bed
what is going on inside our head
he dies 2,000 years ago today
on a cross for all the...

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If I were to venture a sports analogy,
I'd say life most resembles baseball spiritually.
We spend eons preparing in the dugout,
Then nervously strut out to take...

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To be called ..
            ~   Grandma is a Honor ~

  ...

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*Nathan's Song

Nathan loved to be playin' baseball
Talk with his friends everytime they'd call
He would rather be doing for others---any day.
Nathan loved the lake in the...

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IF JESUS HAD AN IPHONE.

If Jesus had an I phone how many apps. Would there be.
It would have to be a huge phone I do...

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I saw you there resting
your chair near the door.

Long Black hair dirty
Needing a bath. smiling.

Red and green stick figure Jesus
Pictures you offered. Grinning.

I was moved...

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when I was a child I played on a baseball  team
and my name on my jersey to me was my greatest dream
but as an...

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