Showing posts with label baseball. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baseball. Show all posts

Thursday, November 2, 2017

Of New Throughway

November PAD Challenge begins! For today’s prompt, write a new day poem.
okay, I wrote the above line yesterday but
 its New joined to age-old throngs, before I could get to the prompt!
So, a day later a new, New Today offers up its page of grace, 
 ...for some it will be a stage for celebration


...for others a page bearing tears of disappointment
(no words needed)



Ah, laid beneath delinquent feet
Yon sweep of star-deep pales until
Redemption’s carpet gilds the street
And tints colorless field and hill

We, bonded to the old turn to
The New Today that time deploys
Where time insists upon its due
And runs it through with sorrow-joys

Earth’s boulevard, starred with the tears
Of grief and laughter’s testament
Hinges to scads of yester-years
A sphere of unmarred filament

Ah, here and now offers a dance
On tides where heavens ebb and flow
And dark relents to grant new chance
To prove the gratitude we owe

© Janet Martin

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Time's Treasure Hunt





Time’s road won’t always go the way
We wish that it would turn
But in each twist-and-half-kissed splay
We find something to learn

Time’s hill won’t bow to our design
While on and up we plod
But in its hope-faith-trust incline
We find the hand of God

Time’s valleys may not disappear
Where winds howl and annoy
But in the hardship of its tear
We find the heart of joy

Time’s highway runs through gray and gold
Each mile soon left behind
Where, in each twist-turn-have-hold fold
Today is all we'll find

© Janet Martin

While we shook and picked apples...
...we listened to the Jays world-series dreams take a major nose-dive!!!
(we strung a l-o-o-o-n-g cord out to plug in the radio;)

Kevin Pillar has wowed the crowd with spectacular plays but here he says it for all of us:)
Toronto Blue Jays' Kevin Pillar sits in the outfield after Kansas City Royals' Lorenzo Cain hits a two run RBI single during the seventh inning.

...but that doesn't mean we won't be here cheering him/them on today. 
Go Toronto Blue Jays!!!

Monday, October 19, 2015

Happy to be A Bystander:)

Today's YDP poem sparked a vivid recollection...


 In the far, far, right outfield
School-girl stands shivering with dread
while the late May-sun beats hot upon
her honey-colored head

Ball-glove droops at her side
Fear stifles creative thought
While batter-up pounds the plate
Scanning the outfield for a 'weak-spot'

Crack, goes the bat and sure enough
with devilish cheer that leather-sphere fell
in front of Girl With Outstretched Prayers
to be rescued by the bell

Janet:)

We are cheering on our Toronto Blue Jays 
I for one am a far happier ball-fan than player:)



This picture was taken on the day I officially resigned from anything baseball 
besides watching and cheering 
after a family-game miscommunication, 
when I said 'NO' and he thought I said 'THROW"!!