Baseball Wisdom Poems

A wise poet said:
“You are captain of your own ship!”
My employer said: “Not here, Buddy!”
My wife said, “Yes dear, after you take
out the garbage and...

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We've heard of ALS
as "Lou Gehrig's disease"
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
a cause to pray on our knees

But Lou Gehrig felt he was
"the luckiest man on earth"*
the Yankees,...

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They told us that we self-repressed,
were too serious about sex,
that it was causing neurosis,
with birth control we could relax.
Encouraged us to ‘explore things,’
said we should...

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"If you ask him what time it is he tells you how to build a watch."...

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Mama was going to be very busy today
(very busy cos it was Saturday)
There were jobs and work to do 
Piles of clothes and washing too
Usually...

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That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.

~

Good is not good...

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7/5/21
"Seventh Heaven (007)"

According to local legend
Regarding the Great Depression 
And Armageddon

Nearing seventh heaven
Still on that 007
Sent him and her toward hell or heaven
Close to or...

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Pet Poems, First Dog, Blake

No matter, of course, how many times I asked,
The answer came, “No!”  Thus,
At age 9, at the start of summer,...

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Epigrams by Michael R. Burch

If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity 
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch

To write an epigram, cram.
If...

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Hand Stand
Thumb Works With Digits to Grasp,
Beholding the Design Makes Me Gasp,
Quite Beholding a Tool Like a Jeweler Hasp.

Each Body Member Complex Beyond,
What We Take...

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“Boys will be girls,
and girls will be boys”

Utter false parenting
The power of impotent suggestion
by the ignorant immature

God made the male and the female;
and at birth,
it’s...

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Men cry into their beer and whisky
Hunched over at the bar,
Sometimes with lonely tears, or guilty emotion.
Peering out from behind baseball caps or cowboy hats,
They...

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Rushing to nowhere
The dead are lowest on time
For eternity
Self-condemned to walk empty
Though life works differently...

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Tenebrosi Diabolus , Funesta Pugna



The snake that slithered in lay quite still
as if testing my shaky resolve, my weak will
I saw its blackness and that...

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Today at 8:05 AM 


Why must we feel stuck, as if we can't get out.
Instead of positive on our minds, most are filled with doubts.
This...

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