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    Sandlot Poet
    Sandlot Poet
    Sandlot Poet
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    Sandlot Poet

    By Steve Wachtel

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    This book has poetry panned from pain and triumph, gentle observations and the human experience.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateNov 4, 2021
    ISBN9781664196018
    Sandlot Poet
    Author

    Steve Wachtel

    Steve Wachtel has been writing since 1976. He has extensive experience volunteering with children both as big brother and teaching them to love reading. When not writing children's books he enjoys writing poetry.

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      Sandlot Poet - Steve Wachtel

      Copyright © 2021 by Steve Wachtel.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.

      Rev. date: 10/21/2021

      Xlibris

      844-714-8691

      www.Xlibris.com

      836599

      CONTENTS

      A Different Glory

      Life Actually

      Morning Becomes Electric

      Everyman

      Do You Mind

      Cycles

      The Return

      A Little Street Music

      A New Tower

      Be Gone… And Begun

      Cold

      He Who Hesitates…

      Heartbreak

      More City Musings

      My Prayer

      Now And Forever

      Of Flies And Men

      Out Of Darkness, Light

      Post(?) Covid Musings…

      Rambling

      Random Thought

      She

      Shock Exchange

      Spring Aspiring

      Spring Is Coming

      Subway, New Way

      Suddenly… Life!

      Sweet Trouble

      The Blues

      Trapped

      Traveling

      Washington Square

      We All…

      Winter Guy In Summer

      Winter Of The Mind

      The Old Year

      Widows’ Walk

      Candy Lady

      Prophet Man

      This Is How

      Uneasy Knights

      Tsunami Tears

      Archimedes

      Marty

      Oh Those Voices!

      Reflecting

      Rosey

      Sad Smile

      Seeing Blindly

      Summer Mine

      Fantasy

      Rand Thought

      Alter Bench

      Benched

      Change

      Composed Extemporaneously

      Fool’s Gold

      Friendship’s End

      Loss And Lost

      Winter Guy In Summer

      Vocalized

      Bad Bye

      This book is dedicated to my wife, Maxine, forever my greatest support and gentlest critic.

      A DIFFERENT GLORY

      I was a terrible Little Leaguer,

      One hit in three years!

      But I stayed eager

      To try and stay with my peers.

      Some of whom went on

      To Sand Lot glory days,

      And were looked upon

      As gods to be praised

      For their ability to strike

      A round ball with a round bat,

      Truly a feat denied those like

      Me, a non athlete all star, in fact.

      But today, I’ve made some hits,

      To cheers, at least in my mind…

      In a different sport, that fits

      Me better, where I am inclined

      To weave words in my peculiar way,

      Into rhymes and schemes,

      That together have their say,

      Pleasing myself and others it seems…

      So I’ll never be in the Hall of Fame

      And no Frostian All Star, I know it,

      At least now I’m in the game,

      Truly and finally… a Sandlot poet!

      LIFE ACTUALLY

      A retired nun turns 117 years old.

      Sailed through two pandemics,

      Two world wars, depression…

      She gives new meaning to the expression

      Too tough to die. She says it’s academic

      Drink some champagne, give a cold

      Shoulder to the pale rider

      And serve life at every meal.

      And death licks his wounds

      After wrestling her, and swoons

      From his fatigue. She is a real

      Modern Methuselah and provider

      Of hope for the rest of us folk.

      Her secret is that she never stopped

      Moving forward to the next thrill

      Of discovery, what waited over the next hill,

      And

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