Sport Verse Poems

The political biochemistry of triumphs and defeats
Lives its spasmodic life 
Consisting of precious milliseconds,
Precise calculations and brutal muscle power.
But this bodily activity
Doesn't mean a thing
Without...

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	I
Friend, whatever brought your life to end
had no appetite for mouse flesh, nudged your
small gray body on its side with a thorough sniff
and left your...

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Not quite red, sometimes pinkish, orange has a tangy freshness.
Adding the prettiest accents to Halloween, October, and fall festivals.
My favorite sweatshirt, broom, sweater, shirt, and...

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(With Wormwood Dreams)
The fire and ice, heaven and hell equinox calibration of scales, scorched Earth
beneath a sky of epic fail of primary colors in triple...

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I had never seen snow skis before 1976
Did not know about the rich man’s sport
Every time I see a ski photo I remember those news...

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Crazy dreams cryptic holidays 
Living floating above
It's a carpet or a rug

Living to forge forgetting to follow
But look in the streets
Love is still a companion
...

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The land of honey? 

Most Americans I know of are writers and artists 
who sees when a crime has been committed
alas, the US government and...

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The parody of justice drifting high seas
The small continent of my jurisdiction 
The puzzle of hope light up ways

Settle down in my mind like the...

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it was a legal tackle–
it’s not as if football is a dangerous sport,
sure you have your injuries,
but it’s not like boxing
where the guys walk around...

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We taught each other such patience,
after all why become a spoil sport? 

Little things create big moments,
every day together feels too short;

Accepted that nothing’s perfect,...

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To go out with friends
Without having a care in the world
To find people
who just get me
And accept me the way I am
To be good at...

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As I was in national park virunga
 and I saw a zebra 
which was giving birth and
one black and white cobra 
passed by there.
 I admired...

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nobody sees you the way I do
in your wheelchair
with your unopenable arms
where everything crashes to a gray twisted landscape

my brother
alpha male
of demon strut clashes
in our...

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Oh, you will go far beyond the stars,
It is a spectacular thing to see a young  adolescent blossoming into the incredible soul that she...

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Lovely people and angry people

This afternoon, in Lisbon, a charming march about saving the Sobreiro- tree, about 300 people gathered 
under the shade of the...

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