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Idle Bats and Balls
Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – July Covid-19 P.A.D. – Day 5 “Where Have You Gone, Joe Dimaggio?” “What sport, if any, do you miss? Do you miss them at all? Do you revel in having your “Sundays” back? Present a … Continue reading
Not A Trace
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #444 Words: spear, design, line, bite, child, mine, trace, green, relish, chase, fine, lace Not a trace of fine lace on this child of mine. Her designer’s wear: baseball cap and sweats. Have to … Continue reading
Coney Island Turf
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics: On Geography (posted by Anmol) “I am asking you all to explore geography in your poems. There are different ways of going about it — you can explore and inculcate the various subjects … Continue reading
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Tagged baseball, Brooklyn, Coney Island, fun, games, poem geography, rides
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Jackie
Written for: Poetic Asides 2018 November PAD Chapbook Challenge – Day 17 “For today’s prompt, write a broken poem. There are so many things that can be broken: dishwashers, chairs, and chairs. People break records, bad (and good) habits, and … Continue reading
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Tagged baseball, breakthrough, Clerihew form, famous, Written for Challenge
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giant
Written for: Carpe Diem #1516, Robin D. Gill – Out of the box – letter G “Robin Dallas Gill, born in 1951 at Miami Beach, Florida, USA, and brought up on the island of Key Biscayne in the Florida Keys, is … Continue reading
Ball Game in Coney Island
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Meeting The Bar: The Acrostic (posted by Frank) To write an acrostic poem, take a word or phrase and use each letter as the first letter of each line in the poem. One should … Continue reading