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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...

Categories: rickey, beautiful, character, deep, environment,
Form: Prose

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.

...

Categories: rickey, baseball,
Form: Sonnet

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...

Categories: rickey, baseball,
Form: Shape

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

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...

Categories: rickey, baseball,
Form: Rhyme

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 ...

Categories: rickey, baseball,
Form: Free verse

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...

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...

Categories: rickey, adventure, age, appreciation, butterfly,
Form: Bio

Rickey

...Rickey Henderson
was very supersonic
whenever he ran...

Categories: rickey, baseball,
Form: Senryu

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...

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...

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 ...

Categories: rickey, nostalgia, me, me,
Form: Rhyme

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...

Categories: rickey, girlfriend-boyfriend
Form: Acrostic