Ode To Opening Day

This is a baseball poem I wrote, ODE TO OPENING DAY. Opening Day should be made a national holiday. Where is the problem in that? It is a given. It only makes sense. If one more holiday is one too many, get rid of that ridiculous charade of the Columbus Day holiday. It is a sham I am embarrassed for those that accept it as fact. Very strange. Well, after all that, this poem is a push toward making Opening Day a national holiday. Wait, let's do better than that even, let's make it a Baseball Fete.

Trum Field. Somerville, MA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With Opening Day

Come the sound of bats

    Of balls

The smell of leather

    Of newly hewn grass

        The sun on the back

            Of dusty winds 

The imagination moves

Of possibilities

     Of your team doing best

         Of being on top

             Of leading the way

With Opening Day

Babe in front of his locker, says

“Hi kid,”

To the Babe, everyone is kid

With Opening Day

Come my self-declared holiday

No longer do I wait for Opening Day

     Pronounced

         National Holiday

It is    It is mine    It will always be

Isn't that the day when children get sick?

Can't go to school?

When parents realize how serious this ailment is?

Isn't that the day when the mind can't concentrate?

      Loses its power to steady?

         The day the mind wanders hither and yon?

Floating

     Roaming

         Moving

             Shifting

With Opening Day

The watch consulted

The mind in the park

Number 3 steps out of the dugout

Seventy thousand cheers

     Rising

         Undulating

With Opening Day

Players pick up    feel

Scratchy new uniforms

The stomach jumps

 Patters

Meeting with the watch

Train leaves    one hour

What to do?

Such immense expanse of time?

Players pulling up their trousers now

Ready to step into shining black shoes

A gleaming pearl in the starter’s shoe

What are the umps doing now?

This moment?

Probably not at the park

Sure they are

Where else to be?

Not having a leisurely meal

Not now

Into the pockets

Yep    the tickets

Sit down    stand up

Down at the watch

Up to the window    the sky

Bright white sphere in ethereal blue

The wind in the trees is light

An outfielder glides under a ball

Will there be any spectacular plays today?

The shoulders rise

The blood pumps    thump    thump

The watch

Still to wait

Are they throwing balls around now?

Did Babe get butterflies on Opening Day?

Such ritual

Opening Day

     A National Holiday

         We must make it so

“Welcome to Opening Day, kid.”

White sparkling on emerald green

An umbrella of cobalt blue

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Son, Pete Murray with The Babe out beyond the right field fence at The Ball Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore, MD

  

The Babe

 

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                                                                                                                     ---Skip Murray

"That which you do not know, the doing will quickly teach you."
                                                                               ---Lao Tzu

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