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Baseball Love
Contributed by
Carrie
on
Sunday, 14th July 2002 @ 09:55:21 AM in AEST
Topic:
LovePoetry
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The muscles in my legs work hard
to carry me to the end where
the field meets the trees.
I hear dried leaves crunch beneathe my weight
before I soar like a clownish dancer
and stretch to capture the ball.
It ricochets off one lone birch tree
bent forward like a catcher
and then it thumps hard into the earth.
It is wet and painted with blades of grass
when I bend to retrieve it.
I hear laughter far behind me.
He is clasping his stomach, flat on the grass.
His hair is wildly woven with mouse brown leaves.
I wind up, glaring out across the open,
emerald field, embrace my mitt
and send the ball whirring through the air
that divides us.
I hear that perfect pop as he catches it
without rising from his curled position on the grass.
I sink to my knees and laugh and
laugh and smell the high grass
now cradling my body as well
The summer earth is heated and inviting.
It embraces my body as I embraced the ball
and will soon embrace my lover
who is crawling to me, knees wet with dew.
Copyright ©
Carrie
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2002-07-14 09:55:21]
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Re: Baseball Love
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by Terry_Stephen_Driscoll on
Sunday, 14th July 2002 @ 10:01:35 AM AEST
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A scene perfectly set - a brilliant poem out of an almost nothing situation- I loved it - love your style Carrie
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Re: Baseball Love
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by humphdj on
Monday, 15th July 2002 @ 05:13:32 PM AEST
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You make this so vivid and alive, as Stephen say's from very little. To fill such a large canvas with so little paint.
Amazin!
I love this
Rgds
Dave |
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Re: Baseball Love
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by Patricia_Petro on
Thursday, 18th July 2002 @ 04:43:51 AM AEST
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Carrie,
I absolutely love this one. Read it about four days ago and it's still with me. It has everything...excitement, imagery and romance. Very nice.
~Pat |
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