Sport Pain Poems

I owe it to my heart to bring back to me
the better it loved, the yet to be.
To discourage thoughts that push aside,
all that is...

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Why this inhumane suffering
A constant tale of slaughtering
Innocents who die
Forever in the earth to lie.

Do we need to see far more
All that suffering and gore
Lives...

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My memory endures a tourniquet
as it tries to forget, while holding blood.
It used to sport a bouquet
as it tried so hard to boast.

Bouquet becomes tourniquet.
A...

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There is a twinge in my left knee,
right on the inside of the kneecap, under the bone.

I’ll jump, sometimes.
Tendons stretching, stretching, stretching—
muscles flexing.
My foot leave...

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or a Cure for Malaria?  Hmmm . . . 

"Beware of honesty; it easily becomes an addiction."
-- a reformed hypocrite

*   * ...

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Every sport man’s first ID card,
On him imposing, a period to be on guard;
When the slimmest interest shows in financial gain,
And inglorious quitting is the...

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Night I am cold, though viscera burning,
I have pierced on a spit my torso turning.
Supposedly decomposing, et cetera;
words as per usual, concerning;

Do suggest a plethora,...

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The Church of Presidents
By Franklin Price
06/02/2020

Saint John's, near the White House, is the church of Presidents
Rioters tried to burn it, at least that's how the...

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...Steel Hands leapt to the ropes to celebrate,
what a dramatic comeback victory!
cried out his joy while pumping his fists,
right there for the whole audience to...

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Losing my boys 

I lost my son and husband  
thirteen months apart. 
I never thought I’d make it 
with such a broken heart. 

I...

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The in duration of pain,
have many colors to gain.
Tattoo’s, scarification, piercing,
are some hues of pain liberation.
Every competitive sport has its threshold,
for the intimate courage to...

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He took his sword from its sheath
He felt the ground shaking underneath
He asked god for his help
And made one last yelp

Curse you, you foul beast
You...

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Is it Really Sport?

Pitted and marked, scarred for life,
A Sportsman, Boxer, punched by knife.
Brutal the battle to knock his man down,
Broken features for belt and...

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Is pain a "gift" from God or mostly life we've chosen?
First wife good sport, but needed more attentive male,
She wanted home and child (not clearly...

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This is a solid, true, real.
This pain is mine alone.
This pain is my friend by my side.
It hears my wail, my sigh, my groan.

My somatic...

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