Long Batting Poems
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Poems About IcarusSouthern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to
fall?
Only a...
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Categories:
batting, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Butterflies and BeesPoems about Butterflies and Bees
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Album
by Michael R. Burch
I caress them—trapped in brittle cellophane—
and I see how young they were,...
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Categories:
batting, animal, butterfly, flying, insect, sky, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds IPoems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching...
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Categories:
batting, angel, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Game of Cricket Is a Game of LifeLife is not cricket: though a game of cricket reflects life
It portrays real-life conditions; from cradle to urn
Starting with toss of a coin; ends in pulling bails off
Just as cricket life is simply...
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Categories:
batting, dedication, emotions, endurance, fantasy, games, image, inspiration,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Eyes of the Orient(oh, mercy ... )
amazing eye whites,
perfect and pure as glacial ice -
they draw me in,
like diving into a clear Caribbean lagoon,
fluid and cool ...
brown iris so dark in contrast,
that they're lost in the inky black...
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Categories:
batting, beauty, metaphor, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Baseball Trash Can Cats Vs Downtown StrayHere we are fans this fine summer day,
to watch Trash Can Cats, versus Downtown Stray.
The field is grand in this deep wooded glen,
pitchers are warming up in the bull pen.
Pitching for the Cats is Crazy...
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Categories:
batting, baseball, fun, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
My Nolan Ryan StoryGROWING 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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Categories:
batting, baseball, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Teeter TotterTeeter totter
This is my voice, writing from within too without
For a long time, I wasn't listening to my soul.
I was wearing shoes to protect
From the stones and the mud and the bugs in the...
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Categories:
batting, love,
Form:
I do not know?
She Doesn'T KnowIt's been a while since I've told this tale
Thinking of it still makes me pale.
Was it hubris or foolishness or naivete'
That made me want to go away.
I wasn't leaving which you understood
But the job they...
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Categories:
batting, appreciation, betrayal, forgiveness, friendship, god, heartbreak, lost
Form:
Quatrain
So I Found It! 1.( an informal poetic)
So I found it! The very essence of my soul, the eventual becoming
Of my living form to travel to the unseeable future of everything.
So I found it! Beneath the blankets, beneath...
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Categories:
batting, social
Form:
Prose Poetry
An Important ManLisa’s dad has a visitor from out of town - a “very important man.” He came early. He was dressed casually, in slacks, and a jacket over a mock-turtleneck. He was genial, behind tortoiseshell glasses,...
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Categories:
batting, business, family, feelings, grandfather, humor, mother, teen,
Form:
Free verse
The WindowMelted candles atop a resigned dresser
Wilted roses lying atop a white cloud
The flickering of fires and shadows mesh well with your
Batting eyelashes your heavy words and your breathing in rhythm with
the cadences of muted car...
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Categories:
batting, america, city, desire, emotions, heart, lust, political,
Form:
Free verse
Programmer's Love Defined(Proving Once And For All Time That Love Is Not Binary)
Definition of Variables
X, PATH, JOHN, JOHNJOHN, MARSHA, MARSHAMARSHA, ALPHA, OMEGA
Initial Values
SET X=0, SET PATH = 1, SET JOHN = .5, JOHNJOHN = 1000,
MARSHA =...
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Categories:
batting, love,
Form:
Blank verse
Feline Felicitous On a Christmas TreeOnce upon a time, in a land far away,
There was a prince with a Kitty Cat
(Or so the stories portray)
Who would often say, "Meow,"
Which is how kitty cats say,
"There's a forest growing in the living...
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Categories:
batting, cat, christmas, fantasy, hope, joy, nostalgia, silly,
Form:
Free verse
Beam Curvaturefeeling his vitamin injection a new adventure begins
a slapstick epic of unfathomable implication here unfolds
as the rat gnawed curtain rises at Ye Bone and Gristle
among the clattering of wooden pints of bitter ale
the floor show...
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Categories:
batting, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: More Cricketing Jargon - IvUnquotable quotes (More Cricketing Jargon) – IV
A « wide » is a ball aimed by the bowler at some absent-
minded fielder.
The « silly-point » is the fielding position so close...
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Categories:
batting, hilarious, humor, humorous, passion, sports, word play,
Form:
Epigram
From Now OnFrom now on
I will dance as if on fire -
And when I say on fire – I mean sporadic dancing is the only form I know.
I am told I dance like a white girl
I look...
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Categories:
batting, angst, anxiety, beautiful, cinderella, confidence, creation, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Time Swirled MessagesEach poem’s a web that I hang (time-smoked adage
that swirls in the sky) and dream seasons rare eyes!
With no thought of entrapment or hope of ingesting,
rhyme longs more to bless you, verse whispers, “Hello.”
Heart’s a...
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Categories:
batting, faith, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Before It's Too LateBefore it’s too late
Distant bells clatter on cloud fed weathered skies where
darkness creeps past low light vestibules, faded beams flicker
Short skirts wave in a winter wind, breezy attributes
revealing fishnet thighs calling to the next...
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Categories:
batting, dark,
Form:
Free verse
Strikingly Crafty Logomaniac PresentsStrikingly crafty logomaniac presents...
what else... his trademark blatherskite!
While sprawled comfortably
numb upon davenport
Iowa daily dose of poetic mishmash,
thus yours truly couches, kneads, sports...
his imponderable matted
swiftly styled balderdash
noah intent to kindle
potential ark enemy, nor abash
please pardon your
garden...
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Categories:
batting, 11th grade, 12th grade, beauty, creation, humorous,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Better Side of My Reflection"The Better Side"
It's possible to sacrifice so much of yourself people think your Band-Aids are clothing labels. Never stop to ask how they may be beneficial, grabbing, pulling so you never heal. Always underwater...
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Categories:
batting, introspection, life, parents,
Form:
Prose
HerLife without blood and tears would be pointless. Nothing to care for, days spent searching for
that something, that anything, to fill in that hole in your heart made for protection; the
opportunity to feel...
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Categories:
batting, dedicationheart, body, day, heart, may,
Form:
Romanticism
14 Minutesthe clock has begun ticking and in 14 minutes this
piece will be over with you and i if we both decide
to accept it have begun on something of a journey
together one in which...
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Categories:
batting, life
Form:
Free verse
We are of The Pentecost We are O F The Pente C O S T
50 days since ... we had Easter
We are O F ...
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Categories:
batting, angel, appreciation, beautiful, bird, blessing, jesus, song,
Form:
Other
Thinking To Deathspun himself about, he did
when she said what he wanted to hear &
then what came next was the torturous conclusion of a series of steps
ranging within the mind
which might have been going on the whole...
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Categories:
batting, life, time,
Form:
Free verse