When We Idolized
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~ A Sonnet in Iambic Tetrameter ~
Remember when we idolized
Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Shoeless Joe
They seemed so great back in the day
Personas perfect, A-OK
But that was...
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Categories:
ted williams, celebrity, hero, loss, sports,
Form: Sonnet
1958
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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 hit the street.
50 inches of snow on Mason D...
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Categories:
ted williams, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
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:
ted williams, baseball,
Form: Shape
Who's Left
...Lewis Carroll, Harpo Marx,
Albert Einstein, Eminem,
Paul McCartney, Judy Garland –
These are just a few of them.
Add DaVinci and Obama,
Oprah, Jimi and Bill Gates,
Charlie Chaplin, Morgan Fr...
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Categories:
ted williams, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
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:
ted williams, baseball,
Form: Rhyme
The Babe, Ted Williams, and the Mick
...Remembering the days way back when
Baseball was what made life tick
Lived and breathed that wonderful game
With the Babe, Ted Williams, and the Mick
Jackie Robinson breaking the colour ...
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Categories:
ted williams, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Quatrain
The Red Sox of 2004
...In October of 2004,
“The Curse of the Bambino” was no more.
Boston Red Sox fans had never seen
a World Series victory since 1918.
It seemed ever since Babe Ruth was sold,
only Red Sox fans who...
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Categories:
ted williams, sportsworld, red, red,
Form: Rhyme