Baseball With God - Spiritual Poetry.
Baseball is the most literary of sports, bursting with metaphor, image, and rhythm, and poets have long recognized the symbolic parallels between a baseball game and the events of daily life from which their poems sprout. A baseball game tells a story inside the confines of its form, just as a poem does. Its balls and strikes, hits and outs, runs and innings are very like the echoes and rhymes.
Anyone who loves baseball knows that the sport is more than just a game, it is a perfect analogy for life. And if baseball were a religion, John Sexton would be a modern theologian. John Sexton, the president of New York University, gives of his thoughtful exegesis in his work Baseball as a Road to God. This book is very straightforward. You do.
Mother Poems. Email; Share; Poems for Moms. The bond that a child develops with his mother can never be severed. You grew as an organism inside her for nine months. She carried you and sustained you, sharing her sustenance with you through your umbilical cord. When you are born the cord is severed. It is never severed in her heart. That bond lasts forever. As we grow up we become our own.
A shape poem, or a Concrete poem, is a poem that is written in a specific shape. For example, a poem written about the sport of baseball could be written and arranged in a circular shape, as if.
God’S Hall of Fame. Your name may not appear down here, In this world’s hall of fame You may be so unknown Few even know your name Fame and fortune pass you by And are given to a few, But if you love and serve the Lord Then there is good news news for you. This Hall of fame is only good As long as time shall be; But keep in mind, God’s Hall of fame Is for eternity! To have your name.
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