Monday, October 5, 2015

Dream of a Baseball Star Comments

Rating: 4.6

I dreamed Ted Williams
leaning at night
against the Eiffel Tower, weeping.
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Gregory Corso
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Khairul Ahsan 08 June 2020

Heartiest congratulations on your poem being chosen as the 'Modern Poem Of The Day'! 'It came; hundreds came! all afire! ' - Loved the expression.

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michael walker 07 June 2020

The imaginative fantasy poem shows significant love of baseball. 'Is it better to be a poet or a baseball star? ' is the question asked.

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Chinedu Dike 07 June 2020

Beautiful poem nicely put together........ Thanks for sharing.

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Dr Antony Theodore 07 June 2020

And I screamed in my dream: God! throw thy merciful pitch! Herald the crack of bats! Hisanna, very fine poem. tony

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Mahtab Bangalee 07 June 2020

in dream on godly pitch the double, the triple the home run.............Baseball star in dream pitch

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Ratnakar Mandlik 07 June 2020

A great dream of a great sportsman portrayed by equally great master craftsman. Well deserved modern poem of the day.

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Dominic Windram 07 June 2020

Magnificently surreal free verse poem courtesy of the idiosyncratic Beat poet Gregory Corso.It's a 10 from me!

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Varsha M 07 June 2020

A beautiful picture of a baseball star in dream. Perfectly scenically painting every event with explicit imagination. Well written work.

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Michael Walker 30 September 2019

It's a novel idea to imagine Randall Jarrell as a baseball star. A dream-like poem, one that I like.

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Ratnakar Mandlik 07 June 2019

Awesome dream of a great sportsman portrayed in equally awesome way. Well deserved modern poem of the day.

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Edward Kofi Louis 07 June 2019

Learning at night! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Kumarmani Mahakul 07 June 2019

And I screamed in my dream: God! throw thy merciful pitch! Herald the crack of bats! Hooray the sharp liner to left! Yea the double, the triple! Hosannah the home run! ......touching expression with nice theme. Beautiful poem. Thanks and congratulations chosen as the modern poem of the poem of the day.

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Bernard F. Asuncion 07 June 2019

One of the best poems by Gregory Corso......................................

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Dr Antony Theodore 07 June 2019

And I screamed in my dream: God! throw thy merciful pitch! Herald the crack of bats! Hooray the sharp liner to left! excitement pictured well. tony

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Mahtab Bangalee 07 June 2019

let the solace come as the reviving stone.....//

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Sylvia Frances Chan 07 June 2019

My Congratulations go to the family of the late poet Gregory Corso. May he rest in peace. Amen.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 07 June 2019

A dream can be all kinds of results, but it remains a dream. The heroic home run occurred in a dream. Excellent! Congratulations on being chosen as the Modern Poem Of The Day. A 10. Thanks for sharing this thought provoking poem.

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