The Preacher With Steel Hands, Part Iii
......The media was stunned by this action,
and even more so when he retired,
he said he could not hit a man again
after what he had just seen transpire,
that making money of televised strife
could...
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Categories:
sportscasters, change, forgiveness, meaningful, pain,
Form: Narrative
The Game Is On
...Welcome sports fans to the Twenty Sixteen Presidential Race,
Spring Training is full upon us as the candidates align.
Two strong teams build their ranks for the coming season,
determination and ea...
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Categories:
sportscasters, poetry, political,
Form: Free verse
Hot Southern Nights-F
...During the time before television came to our home, My dad sat there in his car on many a dark Southern night. And I was somewhere ...
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Categories:
sportscasters, america, baseball, father, games,
Form: Prose Poetry
Eulogy For a Quarterback's Reputation
...We're angry! What sports fan can blame us?
There hasn't been one loss for Jameis
But off-the-field ruckus
Makes sportscasters muck us
Once famous, now Jameis just shames us
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Categories:
sportscasters, football, humor, sports,
Form: Limerick
Legend of the Red October Run
...Dedicated to the 2000 National College Football Champions, the Oklahoma Sooners
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Over fifty years, boy and man, I’ve been a Sooner...
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Categories:
sportscasters, adventure, autumn, desire, football,
Form: Rhyme
Super Bowl Blues
...Packers--green, gold, white
Steelers--black, gold, white--colors
just as close as scores
game ends--exhausted
bloated, eyes strained, throat hurt--sleep;
morning--traffic jam
sportscasters...
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Categories:
sportscasters, happiness, introspection, life, nostalgia,
Form: Haiku