Baseball Life Poems

Loud is the whistling wind
my freckled face friend
Short hair red fire traces
toothy grin with braces

Skin white and fair
temper quick to fear
likes playing sports
like a guy...

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City life, for kids, before the onslaught of helicopter parents and mandatory parental involvement in every aspect of growing up.  We played baseball, no...

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Alan was at a baseball park and caught   
Andy's fastball, playing catch. Unable   
to call his pal Sam tapping a bottle...

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Nineteen hundred and sixty-one,
was a strobogrammatic year.
It will be six thousand and nine, 
‘til the next time that will appear.

It started off aggressively,
Ike told Cuba...

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We didn’t have much stuff
We weren’t poor
Or so we were told
Ya got one pair of shoes
Maybe sneakers in the summer
A few “hand-me-downs”
A “cold water flat”...

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Lights are glowing gently
The curtains have been drawn
The radio plays softly
An old, well loved song
The summer night is calm
With the moon on the rise
Racoons head...

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Age is over rated
I went from cute and cuddly
To terribly two
In the flip of a calendar
From being inquisitive
To being nosey
From pre-teen
To A TEENAGER
Meandered
Through the military
Into...

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I know I should be extremely grateful
For God's gift of life
But I have no life at all

Trapped like a rat
Behind four foreboding  walls
No one...

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Life is a circle. 
Situations are a mixture. 
A circle of thinkable and unthinkable
opportunities gets you jumping irrelevantly. 
The slipy nature of happiness goes in haste; 
you want...

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The Tapestry of Leaves
Michael R. Burch

Leaves unfold
as life is sold
or bartered, for a moment in the sun.

The interchange
of lives is strange:
what reason—life—when death leaves all...

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   Spring Training camps open now
     baseball players take their first bows

   It's months I've been fervently...

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We've heard of ALS
as "Lou Gehrig's disease"
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
a cause to pray on our knees

But Lou Gehrig felt he was
"the luckiest man on earth"*
the Yankees,...

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Cloudy McGlirk moved into the house at the end of the block.
I ran over to meet him, to greet him, to see if he is...

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The Cost of a Human Life

I sat as an observer
in a state’s superior court.
First-degree murder was the charge.
Cold blooded calculated murder was the act.
One teen...

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As more and more leaves are beginning to fall meaning Autumn is coming to an end
we remembered we promised to bring a collection of leaves...

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