First Love
...Fresh in mind
A lightening bolt in me
But safer, kinder
We slipped off conformity
In triggers of encrypted chemicals
No slap-on labels
No pull to sticky corrections
No show of egos unveiling
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Categories:
outfielders, appreciation, celebration, desire, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Friday's Gone, Sunday's Here
...I stand above home plate, bat tight in hand
The outfielders move in right behind the infield.
The doubt belongs not to me, yet fear teases my mind.
Here comes the pitch...
I hold my breath......
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Categories:
outfielders, analogy, appreciation, baseball, best
Form: Carpe Diem
Sports- In the Man Cave
.... . . What I know about sports is nothing
but my Dad was quite a fanatic really,
he had his sports man cave all setup,
with not one, but about three televisions going
at the same ...
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Categories:
outfielders, nostalgia, sports,
Form: Free verse
The Band
...She steps up to the plate –smiling
The smile that fills you with hatred and embarrassment
When so often it is present.
This is no laughing matter.
The unliked by the team,
But still the need...
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Categories:
outfielders, baseball, childhood, metaphor, middle
Form: Free verse
An English Summer
...blackbirds sqwark.
hungry magpies try their luck
where pigeons coo;
children's voices echo long
on imagination's highway;
leather sounds on willow,
outfielders idly doze
spectator...
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Categories:
outfielders, places, seasons
Form: Free verse
Sequence-Sounds Off-Summer
...blackbirds sqwark and cluck
hungry magpies try their luck-
fledglings hide,dumbstruck
leather sounds on bat
spectators,politely clap-
outfielders,idly chat
children,outdoors stay
on imagin...
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Categories:
outfielders, sea, seasons
Form: Haiku