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:
spahn, baseball,
Form: Shape
Who Knew
...flipping baseball cards
in the flippin' school yard
pictures up, stats down
Drysdale, Koufax, Mantle, Spahn
or vice versa all around
retirement income source lost on the playground......
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Categories:
spahn, baseball, childhood, fun, games,
Form: Light Verse
The Outlaw's Angel, Part I
...Burke Bowden rode slowly through the piney hills
outside the mining town of Tillico.
Hiding himself there in the Montana woods
where decent folks would rarely go.
He had good reason for being out...
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Categories:
spahn, adventure, conflict, history, love,
Form: Cowboy Poetry