Baseball Teen Poems

You don’t know me
You did not know me then
I watched you from afar
You knew not where or when
I turned up at your practice
I saw you...

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Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch



Smoke
by Michael R. Burch

The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts...

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It didn’t work out. *sigh*
What were the odds? Statistics...
 - love isn’t baseball.

Where do regrets start?
Should I regret the sunset
 - or mourn holding hands?

Or...

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IBM
UBM
ICBM
On the floor....

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What I Have Seen

Chubby fingers, chubby toes;
Clear blue eyes and turned up nose.

Everything's so bright and new,
Little Baby I love you.

Hop scotch, Barbies, long brown...

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That girl keeps saying ‘no’	
Each time I ask her out.
She gives no reason why,	
Just turns and shuts me out.
I’m pretty sure she’s straight,	
Not on the...

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It is so hard in this day and age of blurred lines, wrecking balls and falling trees  to challenge students to see the right...

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Fifty years, boy and man, I’ve been a Sooners fan;
And watched thousands of recruits try to make my Sooners Team.
Often, I’ve enviously wondered what it...

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'Baby, you taste like chocolate,
 
You and me we'd make a great rhyming couplet.
 
A.K.A a grinding couplet.'
 
 
 
'You can get on top...

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Over thirty years ago 
I had the bravest dog,
and by her lustrous, fluffy fur
I happily called her:
the most courageous hound
a boy could ever find.


On summers'...

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Nothings better than cuddling up with your grandma



And not trying to get your tight pants on .



Nothings worse than being sick



And at baseball try-outs being...

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Before commiting to battle,
A wise warrior reviews the odds,
Determines the likelyhood of success,
And judges accordingly...

In my younger, gang years,
I at times deviated from this basic...

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I just want the simple life from when I was young
I miss my innocence and ignorance, I miss having fun
Piggyback rides through the park, being...

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I hear your screaming, 
So I begin to shake
And hyperventilate.
I ask myself why I made such a mistake.
You get closer and closer,
With a baseball bat...

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You see me holding myself high
You just don’t know how much I want to die.
The pain has stabbed me in the heart
I can’t take another...

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