Long Ballpark Poems

I. Early Childhood’s Gifts

Gift 1:
Is love felt from our parents, our friends a true gift
or more something we earn bit by bit over time,
(a child adds to, subtracts from, as days turn to years)?
This is...

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GROWING UP ACROSS THE STREET FROM 
TIGER STADIUM HAS ITS ADVANTAGE
AND DISADVANTAGES.
BEING A YOUNGSTER 
HOT HUMID MUGGY SUMMER NIGHT.
DETROIT MICHIGAN.
JULY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND 73
WOULD TURN OUT TO BE A VERY
COLD
NIGHT.
IN THE MOST UNTHINKABLE WAY.
RUNNING AROUND...

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each of us is naked inside our clothes left as a tender rose as you suppose
an untimely gift so you get my drift in a center from the mind you got this
a tender swept deal...

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each of us is naked inside our clothes left as a tender rose as you suppose
an untimely gift so you get my drift in a center from the mind you got this
a tender swept deal...

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I could smell the ballpark in my glove
Lose myself in the crooked sky above
Hear the roar of the crowd in my bat
Oblivious to your epitaph called stats
Dreaming a dream, called baseball

But that was all taken...

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It only took about ten minutes for me to warm up,
so, I had time to play catch with a friend on my team.
The line-ups were given to the umpire, the umpire
yelled two of my favorite...

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Another baseball season begins and as teams vie for fortune and for fame…I’m reminded of the time I tried to teach my children….

THE INTRICACIES OF THE GAME

It was years ago when we took our children...

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A FATHER, HIS CHILDREN AND BASEBALL

A father remembers years ago taking his children to the ballpark on a bright and sunny day.
They sat together in the stands and watched grown men at play.

They’d been sitting...

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Remember when suburban and small town stores were closed Sunday morn?  
Remember when they rolled up the sidewalk at night at nine-thirty or ten?

Remember when the attendant pumped your gas for less than 20...

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Cliche Heaven

Be it as it may I'll try my hand at some clichés
    and address the elephant in the room soon when pigs fly.
It’s a win- win situation, put your game face...

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Hair in a pony tail, ball cap on.	
Wearin’ my team colors, ready to rock on.
Husband agitated cause I’m makin’ him wait.
Hey, gotta have my face on, I gotta look great!
Finally at the ballpark, game already...

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I sat on the beach sifting time through my hands.
I felt like a slot machine whore.
The ocean was preaching her Siren’s demand
I abandon my past at the shore.
So, I shook off the sand, turned my...

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Every poet on this site fill up your cup and throw your hands in the air.
It's gonna be an entertaining night, so sit back and watch this poetic warfare!
This could be just a one-sided fight,...

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Summer Days

The chirping of cicadas in the early morning light
Bring back pleasant memories of summer time delight
When you were just a school kid and had nothing all planned out
You spent your days like mine I’d...

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Going to the ballpark with someone you met...
               Or just planning to watch on TV?

      ...

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What's so great about Arlington, Texas, is that of it's suburban community. It's got
everything one person can ask for: a built-in movie theater at the Parks Mall, an awesome
shopping center, better homes, and, at long...

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Quatrain 1
Sitting alone at nadir in serpentine sloth;
it is placed on the breeding typo.
A slight failure comes out of the emptiness and makes
successful that which should not be believed in the rain.

Quatrain 2
The worm in...

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If I had an IQ of 17, 
would this be normal?

My son, 
with cerebral palsy, 
no language capacity, no LeftBrain ability to read or write 
or speak using linguistic tools, 
with no hint of verbal...

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The dream of every Little Leaguer
in our town was to play in The Ballpark.
The Ballpark was the diamond 
where all the Major League games were played.

There were only four teams
in the Major League.
The best of...

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Out of Bounds!

Do you know when your sanity's out in 'left field?'
Are you still in the ballpark? Oh, heart, please get steeled!
Though the answers aren't pretty, the truth's there to seek!
It's when I feel the...

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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 baseball
Was about to come crashing down
After...

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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 baseball
Was about to come crashing down
After...

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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 baseball
Was about to come crashing down
After...

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In watching the television or looking out my front door
Alongside it seems to run with the verses of Matthew 24
Rumblings from The Ring of Fire and rumors of War
Things have become so dire like He's...

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I stepped out onto the baseball field of life
Nervous flutters stirring inside me
Realizing it was my time 
My time to bat
Sweaty hands 
Nervous stomach
Sweat rolling down my forehead
Nothing was going to stop me
I got in...

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