Long Fast on your feet Poems

MEGANS HIT - the Baseball Sonnet
There on the deck, I took a practice swing
tormented in the possiblity--
then hope was dashed--I found no hope to bring
up to the plate, when Ump cried out, "Strike 3!"

I was...

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MEGANS HIT
There on the deck, I took a practice swing
tormented in the possiblity--
then hope was dashed--I found no hope to bring
up to the plate, when Ump cried out, "Strike 3!"

I was the last to bat--in...

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MEGAN'S HIT
There on the deck, I took a practice swing
tormented in the possiblity--
then hope was dashed--I found no hope to bring
up to the plate, when Ump cried out, "Strike 3!"

I was the last to bat--in...

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MEGAN'S HIT
There on the deck, I took a practice swing
tormented in the possiblity--
then hope was dashed--I found no hope to bring
up to the plate, when Ump cried out, "Strike 3!"
I was the last to bat--in...

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It never melted for starters
but then you have to start somewhere
the Magic Icicle could talk
it had humors jealousies aversions
deep rending tides of love
and week long fits of giggling
It had been crafted by Father Frost
The Emperor...

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dearest mama

it's been three days now
but it seems a lifetime
I'm sorry it had to be this way
I really am
I can only imagine you on a crescent moon
lost in a crater, yelling at me
mama I'm sorry
a...

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Glimmer is her body of a water 
Deep crystal clear surrounded by 
overgrown trees and wild flowers 
Situated between two villages  
also known as the lovers pond 
Where every young lovers met and 
had...

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Mother taught me her proverbs to ring like a bell in the chapel of my brain
Better days are coming – angels filling the sky with joyous refrain
The darkest hour is here before dawn – I...

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 This one is for Bailey...
Oh, you know I hate to leave you helpless,
But there's really nothing that I can do.
Your parents say that I have done enough.
I mean, just look at what I've gotten...

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If we were both in Paris
We on different time zones
Always coming and goin
I’m on this lonely balcony
Cigar smoke blowin
I’m as lonely as Gatsby
Cloaked in white with blue 
All the way down to my sox
Looking at...

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There's four ninja turtles
Cleaning up the streets
Trained in the art of ninja karate-e
They hide down in the sewers
Watching for criminals
Could it be for real or is it April fools




Teenage mutant ninja turtles
Six foot dudes they...

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(10/5/11)

This was the night that I was told
Not to walk this lonely dark road
For this was the night that they would all come out
This is what Halloween was about.
Out of the shadows they all came
And...

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If I Find I Am Soon To Die
By Rick Rucker
If I find I am soon to Die,
I will not scream, nor even Cry,
I am lucky, and have always been,
The most fortunate of Men,

Life has been...

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I could feel the uneasiness in the air, 

With every word the people would swear. 

With every shout my heart shred, 

But His love just spread. 

With tears pouring down my face, 

From His heart...

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Rain, nothing but rain
It’s raining so hard it sounds like 
A round of applause
If only that were true
And I received such adulation
But I am an imposter
A poser
A man lost in the motions
Of life.
I sleep, to...

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My baby died this
morning.
It happened so fast,
without any warning.

Mugsy woke us up,and
we found you on the floor.
You wouldn't even get up,
and come out the door.

We rushed you to the
Shenandoah Vet.
So gentle,were we,to
our pet.

We left her...

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Here I go the same road I've been traveling on for years. 

My life is so-so how I live it is up to me.

 But I keep on thinking and I keep trying to 
break...

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I’m at a dead end in my life.
No road ahead, and no way out.
The darkness all around me screams
You’re here to stay!
You can’t get out!
There won’t be day!
They Kill my freedom with my doubt.

My body...

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Winter is not forever.
In fact, I’m not fully asleep
like hibernating bears are.
On a warm day you might see me creep.
up and out of my burrow,
often pushing snow piles away.
I like to run in the sun,
but...

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Now he hasn’t got a future
Just look at his past
He’s got no education 
And he lives too fast
Well he didn’t go to school
Hangin’ in the street
Thinks he’s  cool 
An’ he’s fast on his feet
Aint...

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Hitting the Easy Target

By Elton Camp

Scott found a way to make easy extra cash
By some old lady he would make a dash

Her purse he would snatch out of her hand
He decided that easy scheme was...

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"Would you like barbeque chicken,
or country steak with gravy?"
"Uh, huh."
"You want both?"
"Uh huh."
Her tablemate drools, bottom lip
hanging. He stares at his menu,
waiting for someone to take his order.
An aide rolls a wheel chair to the...

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Page 2

Still I couldn't help but wonder 
what the ruckus was about
and I stopped being curious 
when a single shot rang out

I flew through the open door
being fast upon my feet
but only one was left...

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The empty desolation secreted inside my soul
no light emitted. an all consuming black hole
hear the rumbling thunder claps as dark clouds roll
depression is takin' it's toll, i've lost sight of my goal.

I am running, there's...

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Something seems amiss,
 yard creatures abound today
 demanding and fighting over seed and food.
The usual half dozen squirrels
 have doubled up,
 unfamiliar birds have come.
Each more determined and persistent
  than the residents
  the...

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