Long Teammate Poems

The Game of Hockey 

By Government decree, lacrosse
Is Canada’s national sport,
But in the hearts and minds of Canadians,
Hockey rules supreme.
Hockey is a winter sport enjoyed by Canadians since 1875,
When the game was first played, on...

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Pet Poems, First Dog, Blake

No matter, of course, how many times I asked,
The answer came, “No!”  Thus,
At age 9, at the start of summer, I searched
Our not especially well-kept house and yard
For every scrap...

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Appearance was your entire routine.
But truth is found if one looks deep enough.
A walking good first impression machine,
Yet something else when we cut through the fluff.

If not a teammate, what is a colleague?
No possible chance...

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Cause and Effect
In my youth I did not understand the difference between love and lust. Always seeking out Love's location but never to locate. Then our eyes met upon a faithful winds gust. That was...

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The turf is wet. 
Tinny rap splashes out, booming and the players are bouncing
Like boxers, ready for the air-balls
That they cleanly tap and set on the ground
With the surfaces of their cleats.
The rap is crashing.
The...

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New new new
Clean clear powerful activity, unleashed wings upstairs
Protective instinct bonded to stability
Monitor on, guarding, titrating all sensory and physical input
Past seeking, obsessing on relief in dark lost forced absenting this plane
Past pushing and stretching...

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Friday Night Check-ins


The days have been calm and collected.
The guests have been happy, content.
The weekday staff scurry out from the hotel
To avoid the upcoming event.

Weekend receptionists tremble
As the Friday night check-ins approach,
Fearing the tsunami of...

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Spring has sprung, the fields have turned green;
He walks to the sunshine and stands on his dream;
He grew up in fields of brown earth and sweet hay;
But the ones he loved best were the fields...

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For those we lost
Nuzlocking Pokémon Red
This is a poem 
To memorialize our dead

Rainbow

A level 4 Metapod
Caught with a single pokéball
Would grow to become
One of the best pokémon of all

Rainbow, the Butterfree
Evolved before our eyes
A valued...

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"To Have me or Have Not”.  
I  had a thought just crossed my mind/  a problem that  never been resolved
 A bitter taste a bitter cold
 I don’t feel anymore remorse...

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The love of a mother for her newborn babe,
     The love of a child for adoring parents;
     The love of a nun for Lord Jesus,
  ...

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I am a Peacemaker

Mother - let me teach my children humility
Woman - let my sensitivity calm others
Wife - let me be his lover, confidant and teammate always
Reikimaster - let me teach and practice the healing...

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Saudade for friends I have lost

as I get older
I lose more people
every year

more people I knew
have died moving on 
and I mourn their lost friendship

wished I had been 
a better friend for them
and knew them...

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with the corona virus upon us
I am bracing to hear the news
that so and so has died

I reflect back
on all the people in my life
that I have already lost

part of being older
is that you lose...

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Their prejudice is embedded in their words, tucked away
Putting a damper on your pride
A laugh and a smile and a claim that it was “just a joke” 
And your friends, the ones who have never...

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I remember it
Like it was yesterday
When we first met
The introduction
The chills
The laughter
What does it matter
Love me or not
The last one didn't treat me right
So it is your turn now
Your opportunity
I'll give it a chance
It did...

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Gun fires blast as chiseled arms and legs
begin to rotate
Getting out and kicking is the key, one
mustn't hesitate

My leg is ALL mine to run and for me to
consume total control
I must run freely and fearlessly,...

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We would sit there at the end 
And the boys would be playing dodge ball but
It was a different version
It wasn’t two teams and a line that separated you
It was every boy for himself
No lines,...

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Character References

By Mark D. Stucky
If I applied for new employment,
should I write down for my references
my malicious manager who mistreats workers,
my onetime teammate serving prison time,
my drug-dealing cousin crashing in a crack house,
or long-lost relatives...

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On the field of golden sands,
is a sport  played with one’s feet.
A ball is kicked to one’s teammate,
to make a score, or avoid being beat.

The field lays right in the middle,
the two goals placed,...

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Mason Mount a legend in the making,
His skills are real, he is never faking,
He doesn't pass ball without thinking,
At just 22 years he is record breaking,
He always leave the defenders shaking,
A blue superstar in the...

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Young and eager to defend
Our country till the very end
Buzzcuts uniforms and nerves
Training that will help them swerve
From the danger they will face
In a far off scary place 
Away from everyone they love 
Praying nightly...

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It’s the final quarter
In this seventh game
From courtside to the bleachers
People are chanting my name..

I look at the clock
It reads only three
The score’s a deadlock
Everybody’s on their feet..

Not a second to waste
Coach calls for time
And...

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My father made me            Not be rude
                 ...

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My Teammate
     Lead by the devil's strength
   Our opponents won't be playful 
  we should not underestimate them
They are spun and solid as cutting iron
 
 Baby, we...

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