Baseball Visionary Poems

Something showing  
Outside inside
Birdhouse bathhouse
Baseball horse stall
See food sea food
Oh-look cookbook
Eggshell upstairs


10/25/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021©...

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I watched a ballplayer
   wave 'Hi' to the 
cardboard cut-out fans
   propped up in the stands

At first I thought
  ...

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I'm the luckiest man on earth, Lou Gehrig had said
Two months later, the greatest Yankee was dead
   Gehrig suffered from ALS, a fatal...

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out in left field
daddy's hoped-for pitcher dreams 
a whole diff'rent game

February 22, 2017...

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it'll break yours - to see an old man cry
lips shaking at the memories
legion hats and baseball caps
with buttons and pins and medals stuck

the soldier...

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My baseball cap is my helmet and my Nike's are my boots, 
My country is my hood and my colors on my flag are niether...

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Rolling dismal clouds,

Grayer buildings,

and a stack of smoke closer than usual...



Here,

Fire escapes bind dirty, white buildings

and laundry dries on-top of shedding fences...



The people roam,

as if...

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when it comes to baseball
there was one team that we shall
remember from it's past

it's the nineteen twenty seven 
      ...

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In the box with overpowered silence
Dripping with sweaty tension
Wanting glory…fearing three

Those eyes precise measured quarry
Javelin of Ash loaded at the ready
Stilly prepared…ironed gripping

White pale streak...

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Time stands still for the cooler king, 
Hey, Hilts, throw the baseball and 
Don't sweat a thing; 
Listen up close and the bell will ring...

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