Long Major league Poems

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Chapter L.A.

I like to think of [the habit] as a bonfire or a lighthouse, so that light can shine out into places where there are no resources and there isn’t...

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“His fastball, so they tell me, has been clocked at 105!
His ERA is 1 point 4!   The guy can really pitch!
I heard he’s making more than any athlete alive,
doing what…when baseball started…didn’t make...

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Regardless of which field of endeavor you happen to be in, never say never, and never say, "It's over'' until it's over. I was in my garage during chores better known as this, that, and...

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During the time before television came to our home,                          ...

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In 1967, fresh out of high school at seventeen, I boarded a northbound bus to the metropolis of the mid-west. After arriving in Chicago, while waiting to be picked up by a family member, I...

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Daddy's friend, Mr. Baines, was a Yankee man.
Daddy's friend Mr. Mon, was a Dodger Man.
My daddy was heart and soul, a Cardinal man.

During those early years of my childhood, baseball
was clearly the number one sport...

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I have attempted to capture my favorite major league baseball players in this little shape poem of home plate. Included are (in no particular order):

Say Hey Willie Mays       ...

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Dominic Venetucci - 1911-2004

Outside, snow gently fell upon the barren punkin patch.
Where happy children once romped was now a forlorn thatch.
Inside the aged' couple reminisced about happier times and shed a tear.
Alas, drought dashed their...

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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 are not going to recreate Wrestling in this jerks image! It's was said at a press conference. Look he's unified Twenty independents and he's looking to get everybody involvled. "We don't do that!" Well...

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From a very young child, I was told by many that I was a GOOD kid.
'GOOD' meant that I was obedient and respectful to parents and adults.
My mother thought I was GOOD, and my grandmother...

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We had 16 crews that were assigned to the raid,
Of Japan, ‘cos of Pearl Harbour where we got laid;
We prepared on Egland Field for the aircraft carrier,
And didn’t believe a B-25 could take off the...

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I wake up in the morning
With the alarm clock going off
The Major League would hire me
If they got a look at that toss

Landing perfectly in the trash
On the other side of the room
Didn't wake up...

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Do you make sure to tap all the dirt from your spikes with your bat,
 even if it takes two full-length TV time-outs for you to do so?

Do you cross yourself once, twice, thrice,
 or...

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My country formed in violent revolution over the taxation,
Of sugar, tea, and stamps from mother England.

My country enslaved with a narrow vision of traditionalism,
Drowning in the sea of religious fanaticism.

You should come in July when...

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New York baseball fans had to face reality.
Coast to coast travel attained practicality.
Jet planes carried us west within a day.
As a result, the Giants and Dodgers both went away.
The Giants headed for San Francisco, and...

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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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UNITY STATED!

We are cool. 
We sweat.
We shoot.
We hit.
This is our game we play.
Yes, we are the American way.
	
We are fame.
We are the success.
We compete.
We project.
This is the game we play.
Basketball NBA!

We thrive.
We catch.
We are strategized.
We...

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Flawless
Down in Florida on the twenty-ninth of May,
the Phillies had a pitcher named Roy Halladay.

There was a show in store for Phillies fans in town.
In each inning, three came up and three went down.

In this...

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I'm the rookie of the century, doing something new for your eyes to behold.
Whether I'm locked up in a cage or outside looking at the rain.
Am I really something to stare upon? You answer that...

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As you can see I am very big,...
One of the biggest forests in the world.
I belong to a major league
Of chief forests of the veld.

I pack, daily, tons of oxygen
Which I release to the atmosphere.
That...

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With joy and jubilation today,
The strong batter smiled and perspired
As he ran the bases, so greatly admired.


A lesson, though, for poets all.
Just write, must each poem be in a contest?
Much each poem be a blatant...

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By Curtis Johnson

You may never become a hero or a person of great renown; 
Or throw a ‘no hitter’ from a Major League pitcher’s mound.

Your name may never grace the pages of anybody’s magazine.
You may...

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~ Before you throw in the towel ~ 

Your pen is full of ink
   The paper on which you think

as fresh as a mountain stream
   All that remains is to dream

of...

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