Baseball In Heaven
...This is the story of two all-time great baseball pitchers who are both in the Hall-of-Fame. So, the story goes like this. Last week the old-timers both well into their nineties, were out together at ...
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Categories:
umpires, baseball, friendship, heaven,
Form: Haibun
City Life Circa 1957
...City life, for kids, before the onslaught of helicopter parents and mandatory parental involvement in every aspect of growing up. We played baseball, no umpires, the bases pieces of cardboard, scrat...
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Categories:
umpires, baseball, growing up,
Form: Prose
Another Nonsensical Tale
..."Balls!" said the umpires
"Strike!" yelled the pins
"Take that!" cried the little girl
who kicked both my shins
And when the green penguin
started dancing a jig
I realized it was high time
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Categories:
umpires, fun, humorous, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Nightfall
...Time races as the “sun sets” into its bin,
An everyday “sinking spell” and a *sight that umpires* for our alibi,
The moon gradually stealthily comes out If its bag,
“Sombre shades” permeate the lu...
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Categories:
umpires, nature, night,
Form: Verse
'diamond' Health News
...1.
life is good (I think?) -
I’m able to move one bite
from home plate to mouth
2.
“first base’s” great goal
but “second,” “third,” feels better –
a “home run’s” too quick
3.
a “base hit...
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Categories:
umpires, baseball, health,
Form: Haiku
Happy Mother's Day 2022
...I remember my mom having a collection of hats she stored under her bed.
For any occasion that could arise…she had a hat to set atop her head.
Moms of today are different…often they go out with th...
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Categories:
umpires, mothers day,
Form: Rhyme
Wagering As Pascal
...I
Does morality need some religion?
Does humanity need Creator, Creation?
If I'm good even when I'm bad
Morality and religion we must have
As with government, as with queens, king -
Humans need...
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Categories:
umpires, analogy, bible, community, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Game of Cricket Is a Game of Life
...Life is not cricket: though a game of cricket reflects life
It portrays real-life conditions; from cradle to urn
Starting with toss of a coin; ends in pulling bails off
Just as cricket life is s...
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Categories:
umpires, dedication, emotions, endurance, fantasy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Captain Courageous
...april starts clocks forward spring
practice in full swing
nets untangled from their poles
players to contact & enroll
gang mowers greased&oiled
kit-bag dis-embroiled
grass-stained pads whit...
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Categories:
umpires, nostalgia, sports, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Unfairness
...Ultra-conservative
undertaker umpires
upperclassmen unit;
Unique undergrads used
Unceremonious
Underhanded unions--
Uncooperative!
THIRD PLACE WINNER
Written April 30, 2021...
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Categories:
umpires, humor, word play,
Form: Verse
Exchange Rate
...( depiction of our hoochie heroine being
nailed by a stranger on his car)
Branches warp inward where image reflects
Winscreen mangles trees in curved convex
Numbed halt of midday awai...
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Categories:
umpires, adventure, day, education, woman,
Form: Narrative
Sweat More To Sweat
...Ball,Bat and wicket
Three making thrill cricket
Ballers,Batsmen and Umpires
To differ to defend in all affairs
Batsman to sweat more to shine
Shining ball for the baller to shine
Saliva a...
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Categories:
umpires, games,
Form: Rhyme
Cricket World Cup
...https://youtu.be/A7NzFzy7_NE
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Cricket no...
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Categories:
umpires, celebration, destiny, faith, fate,
Form: Heroic Couplet
The Reedybrook Ashes
...Each year in August the teams descend, cricket foe morphing quickly to friend,
Bonds are forged on a pitch unique, camped on the banks of Reedybrook creek.
The grass is cut, the fields set out, th...
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Categories:
umpires, friendship, fun,
Form: Ballad
I See God and His Majesty
...I see God by faith, in His majesty
revealing His blessings for mankind
with His awesome dawn-wonders:
Azure-accentuated ambiance awaits aspiring artists
Baby’s birth brings b...
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Categories:
umpires, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Abecedarian
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