Short Hardball Poems

hardball demagogue
ruthless big shot Willie Stark-
women, gambling, guns






Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved.
Published 2018 in "Hollywood Haiku" via wattpad.com...

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Upset About Death of Bobby Kennedy

Am listening to Hardball with Chris Matthews
who had written a book about Bobby.

Was a moment we may never forget;
Our society had to pay another debt;
A body died,
And we cried;
Bobby Kennedy is gone and are upset.

Jim Horn...

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Girl she knew what she was doing; tightening up these screws...
Her beauty, knows how to play hardball; especially, when it all comes
Unto everlasting eternal love ? Painting corners at a thousand miles an hour
Atop their knees time bleeds these eyes but they wish and in life with she; you see....

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Lucille Ball
Made us laugh, playing hardball
With dingbat displays
And clever, nonsensical ways!

Desi Arnaz
Caused mayhem with pizzazz
Zaniness we loved to view
As he broadened the hullabaloo!


September 30, 2021

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I'm from cute boys that
break your heart
to best friends that never
will
I'm from soaking up the sweet summer 
rays
to chilling in the cool 
winter
I'm from a softball hit 100 mph at you
to a hardball hit 0.01 mph at you
I'm from friends who
advise no drinking
to people with whom I 
drink
I'm from acting all that
to getting what I 
deserve
I'm from fitting in
to being a total social 
outcast
to a person never seen...

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