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Rickey Poems - Poems about Rickey


Premium Member Somewhere On Foot Part Two
...“Oh please don’t worry. I haven’t a heightened sixth sense… about the mint infused lilt here.” There must be a compass without a point surrounding me “Looking for directions. The town you’re seek......

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Categories: rickey, beautiful, character, deep, environment,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Sliding Head First
...The first three pitches: just outside. Pitch four: right at the knees - "Steerike!", the umpire calls. I wait to get the pitch I'm hoping for… The next toss: high and tight... a base on balls. ......

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Categories: rickey, baseball,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member 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: rickey, baseball,
Form: Shape
Premium Member 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: rickey, baseball,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Interview With the Wise Rookie
...Interview with The Wise Rookie What did you think of the pitcher’s stuff tonight? Darn good. Yeah, his fast ball was ugly tonight. Pure evil. I did manage to put some wood on a change he ......

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Categories: rickey, baseball,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Tricky Mickey
...There was once a pickpocket named Mickey Whose technique was quite deft and so tricky He would bilk you of cash And away he would dash Leaving you sobbing o......

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Categories: rickey, drink, humorous,
Form: Limerick
My Earliest Retrospective Yule Tide Memories Circa Mid 1960s Act Two
...golden raiment trickling threnody ream hinged present with distant past, that temporarily static surreal moment in time stream the best part of existence, thence I became alive from dor......

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Categories: rickey, adventure, age, appreciation, butterfly,
Form: Bio
Rickey
...Rickey Henderson was very supersonic whenever he ran......

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Categories: rickey, baseball,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Rickey Henderson Nolan Ryan's 5000th K
...RICKEY HENDERSON IS ELITE HE DID IT ALL ON HIS OWN TWO FEET RICKEY'S WELL KNOWN FOR STOLEN BASES LEAD OFF HOMERS AGAINST THE ACES SILVER SLUGGER GOLDEN GLOVE A TALENTED ATHLET......

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Categories: rickey, america, baseball, hero, history,
Form: Free verse
Child, My Child
...Looking in the mirror to our childish eyes. Glancing at our little hands on the old grand that was broken because our passion hit without any lies. Dreams of butterflies and muddy feet on the ricke......

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Categories: rickey, age, art, care, celebrity,
Form: Free verse
Past Forward
...I packed my plaid valise For a journey from the past. I didn’t know exactly Just how long my trip would last. On my feet were comfy saddles, On my neck my favorite dickey. I was thirsty so I bought ......

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Categories: rickey, nostalgia, me, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rickey
...Rickey… F-orgetful yet forgiving O-ptimistic and obviously observant R-emarkable RICKEY! U-nderstanding and uplifting R-enaissance man, ready, reliable, realistic and responsible I-ncredi......

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Categories: rickey, girlfriend-boyfriend
Form: Acrostic

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