Baseball Rhyme Poems

We are the pigs, mighty mighty pigs, not a stunt.
The Iron pigs, we play baseball daily, grunt grunt.
We play in Coca Cola Park, long after...

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Hillary drives a vehicle to the south pole,
Gibson gives us the Flying V.
In football we can now score an extra two points,
and Legos blocks first...

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  An MLB pitcher has butterflies 
    ‘til he throws his first pitch

  Me, I get ‘em the whole season
...

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I am a brand new baseball.
The pitcher waits for the call.
He holds me tight,
Until the time is right.

The pitcher lets me go.
Through the air I...

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TO MY GROWN CHILDREN

For my four children I've been working
Almost every day
There was never enough time to play with you
There were baseball games, dance recitals
That...

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Children's Poems X

These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. 



Always
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

Know...

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The Tapestry of Leaves
Michael R. Burch

Leaves unfold
as life is sold
or bartered, for a moment in the sun.

The interchange
of lives is strange:
what reason—life—when death leaves all...

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Children's Poems IV

These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. 



Boundless
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

Every...

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Children's Poems III

These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. 



Success
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

We...

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We were baseball and hot dogs, peanut butter and jelly,
sharing moments that lasted until the end of my dream.
But upon waking, there's an ache deep...

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This morning as a 71 year old man walking with Deborah on a beach in Florida…
I thought back to the big plans I had as...

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We've heard of ALS
as "Lou Gehrig's disease"
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
a cause to pray on our knees

But Lou Gehrig felt he was
"the luckiest man on earth"*
the Yankees,...

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Card playing pig in a poker’s square
Coaxed violin and butterflies in the air.
Standing on a baseball, next to a croaking frog
We wondered if he had...

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In the barn turned snack bar,
I scraped the face of my big toe
ascending the stairs. I didn’t care.
Sucrose sweets, summertime treats
belonged between my loosening teeth

Rotting...

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Cloudy McGlirk moved into the house at the end of the block.
I ran over to meet him, to greet him, to see if he is...

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