Gateway Town
...Gateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence,
with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway.
Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for ...
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Categories:
musial, allusion, city, class, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Play Ball
...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 Wal...
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Categories:
musial, baseball,
Form: Shape
Baseball By the Numbers
...Some numbers tumble down the hallowed halls of baseball’s past -
a sport of numbers after all, these memories hold fast.
Stan Musial wore #6, Lou Gehrig, #4;
the “luckiest man in all the earth”, g...
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Categories:
musial, baseball,
Form: Rhyme
Stan the Man Musial
...WHEN YOU VISIT ST. LOUIS, HOME OF THE ARCH.
TAKE TIMEOUT, TO VISIT THE PARK.
THIS IS THE HOME, TO THE GREATEST OF ALL.
STAN "THE MAN" MUSIAL OF CARDINAL BASEBALL.
FOR 22 SEASONS, HE PLAYE...
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Categories:
musial, baseball, encouraging, inspirational, sports,
Form: Epic
The Babe, Ted Williams, and the Mick
...Remembering the days way back when
Baseball was what made life tick
Lived and breathed that wonderful game
With the Babe, Ted Williams, and the Mick
Jackie Robinson breaking the colour ...
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Categories:
musial, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Quatrain
Grecian Grease
...laced with a goldensilver fleece,
lamented laboured listlessly luxurious
augmented segmented and critically curious...
I'd save penchant face
for solving this human's race
only to relieve ...
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Categories:
musial, hope
Form: Rhyme