Baseball Kid Poems

Dangling hair, girls twirl, drum majors,
Baseball turned cap boys, screenagers,
Gum chew boys, girls curls, tweenagers,
Just teenagers, just teenagers.

Pixie sticks tootsie rolls swallows,
Gummy bears m &...

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*Image of Make A Paper Airplane by YT.

Pen Am Expression Airplane

Welcome, all writers and riders on board,
Pen Am Expression Toss-N-Throw Jetways,
Piloting, Captain Armstrong Paperweight,
And Co-Pilot...

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kids playing outside
mudpies made and tall trees climbed
balls thrown and fish caught...

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Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch



Smoke
by Michael R. Burch

The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts...

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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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We played sports
on asphalt fields
drains and sewer lids
for bases
Billy’s house the right field line
Tommy’s porch
a short left field.

We diagramed
football plays
bottle caps, fractured marbles,
Mikey’s favorite button.
The...

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Gently, on a baked ceiling of a park
a boy ruffles  my fluttering skirt
like a naughty, vagrant wing,
and picks a baseball on the grass…
this smaller...

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Baseball Stance


No gym bars for him,

this big boy on the playground,

intently waiting.

With baseball stance, glove in hand...

eyes, mind only on the ball.



November 22, 2015

Contest: Oil...

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I have these buttons that people press,
That make me a little crazy.
It might be someone who leaves a mess,
Because they are too lazy.

Or it might...

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I was fascinated by frogs, dinosaurs, and outer space.
Comic books, video games, and fast cars to race.

I got my clean clothes dirty and skinned my...

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The crowd stood up and roared as
he came up to bat and scored
entertaining our rowdy bunch in center field.

Say Hey was born a poor black...

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