Long Baseballs Poems

It was a late Saturday morning, and I was getting my 12-year-old self ready for our weekly summer sand-lot baseball game. I had my ball glove hanging on my bicycle handlebars, two baseballs, and my...

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"The Crow Bar"

she said,
here I bury my dead,
you can hear them sleeping
somnulent forget-me-nots,
snoring blithely unaware,
in neat rows between 
the thick,
ink injected lines,
their soiled lives
ploughed and 
turned over 
replanted
sunnyside down
expunged and 
wrung out

eventually,
not totally oblivious, 
they...

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Georgie

His was a pudgy boyish countenance,
With rounded river eyes and an Alfalfa smile.
He wheezed like a sick tern with repeated asthma attacks, 
Playing hard at the various outdoor games and chases,
Of our fleeting childhood years...

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Thoughts of wisdom.

Now grandpa was a guy
A man I held up high
Everything he told me
I knew it was no lie.

All those facts he told
While lying in his bed
Waiting for his God
To claim that he was...

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A tornado comes and goes so quick
 Sometimes revisiting on the same day
 Air humid, breathing hard and thick
 Best advice given…get out of its way

 Sounds like freight train bearing down
 Delivers this –Varoommmmmmmmmm
...

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It's not easy becoming a Legendary  
Major League Baseball pitcher.
It never was and will never be.
You get put through the wringer
and hung out to dry.
From time to time you'll get little or no
run support.
You...

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We were happy as could be
We were so great, we were as one
then something happened and changed all for me
that moment was frightful and gone was the sun.

He came to me a dark night at...

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Our lab named “Blackjack”, looks just like a bear
Jet black and grey, the color of his hair.
He’s an English Lab, with the big wide head
We bought him instead, of buying a bed.

He wouldn’t come in,...

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You are dreaming of a bright sunny day,

and you get this feeling that you just want to stay.

You’re skipping and running up a big hill,

when you get to the top, you lay down and chill.

...

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“I just shot a fiver” my friend said.  “No you didn't” I replied. “It was only four”.  “Was so” he said.  “Was not” I repeated.  And so it went as two...

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MY SIBLINGS' FATHER
         JUDGE BURDON 


other children feared monsters under their bed
i feared the one living under our roof.
his hair was nimbus black 
with a storm's thunder...

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I see all of the tragedies all around as even the tallest mountains shake
Who says this is stable ground as now in Nepal yet another earthquake
I seen floods and their wicked path the tsunami that...

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NEW YORK YANKEES,

BASEBALLS MOST LOVED TEAM.

 I'M JUST JOKING,

THAT'S ONLY IN YOUR DREAMS.


THE YANKEES BOUGHT 

GEORGE HERMAN RUTH.

SO HE WOULDN'T,

BEAT THEM FROM THE MOUND.

THEN THEY SPENT 

MORE MONEY.

BOUGHT THE BEST 

FROM ALL AROUND.


ONE, MUST ADMIRE,...

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As we look back through History
Records will attest
Some famous quotes by famous folks
But I’ll tell you whose are best.

He’s a very famous player
From Baseballs Hall of Fame
Everybody knows him
Yogi Berra is his name.

His quotes -...

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I watched them go to work each morning
A kid growing up in the coal regions
Remembering the dirt and the pride
The self respect that came from earning 
The self reliance and the sense of community
I never...

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I’m not sure
I have the strength anymore
To be discovered

Stepping into the cold black lake of February
Clopping to work in frozen slop
Snow snarling at my ankles

Car coughing
Windshield gritting its white teeth

I wear a body double of...

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Do you remember playing baseball? 
Or hitting tennis balls over the net? 
Do you recall basking in the sun? 
Those were the best days of all.

The warm times are coming back
Sporting baseballs are here again,...

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Gang violence has hit the cities and is often in the news
In hate and anger they are schooled
We had our own gang when I was just a kid
In the days when my gang ruled

We rode...

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SeSaw Back and Forth

About all of her experience we were curious
Founded out and are excited and delirious
And then many screamed and out they cried
She's not only experienced but over-qualified.

Bernie's experience was really in bad trouble
His...

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Salamander
Eating samples
of steak
Standing tall
While the owl on the branches chewing grapes
coffee mongrel shopping pit bull
dancing straight
Standing tall

Always wondered whose on first base
television my religion
has nothing to do with your hate
must be plastic because you're so...

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The Sounds of Childhood

Remember the sounds:
Children on playgrounds,
Seesaws squeaking, squeals,
And roller-skate wheels.

The jukebox blaring,
Old tunes.  Girls dancing.  
Romantic love songs –
Young girls swoon along.

Mancala marbles. 
Clinks in wooden cups,
Loud laughs while playing,
Three cheers...

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The midway Barker sings his song 
Enticing fairgoers to part with their cash
Calliope music from the Merry-Go-Round 
Attracts children in a hurried dash

Where once grew grass now is mud 
Trampled beneath the frenzied mob
Sitting in...

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I needed some storage space so I checked out
The floor underneath the kids’ bed.
It’s a very old bunk but instead of some room,
This is what I encountered instead:

A bag filled with newspapers, all from the...

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With magnetic fascination
akin to domestication
I connect with Ms. Rabbit’s dawn.
Four babies she’s laid in my lawn.

Provoked by supernal emotion
stirred by a sense of procreation
I cancel lawn fertilizer.
Grass cutter? I will advise her.

Unparalleled admiration
drives my kids...

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It is a wonder what the mind can come up with....

Me and my friend Mary from school,
sat at the table with all of our tools.
These boys walked up and started to chat,
and me and Mary...

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