Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Bat Again

© 2017 by P Michael Biggs


Bat Again


I played baseball when I was nine.
I was pretty good … at times.
Sometimes I struck out.
Sometimes I hit a double.
And I got to bat again.

In one game, I got hit in the head.
I got to bat again.
In another I hit two homeruns.
I was a hero that night, and I
got to bat some more.

In other games of life
I made a few good plays
and I bobbled a few fly balls,
and life kept putting me up to bat.

And now I am old,
My muscles have lost their tone,
My joints are stiff.
Even two weeks ago my heart
almost stopped working.

I wondered if I would ever bat again.

My doctor said “Yes, if we do this and that,
And if you do those other things,
Yes, you can bat again.”

And so, I choose to bat gain.
I choose to eat differently,
Follow a regime,
Face the surgery
to repair the damage.
I want to bat again.

I have books to write,
blogs to post.
Podcasts to record,
and memories to make
with my wife ... trips to take,
 and family fun times.

I think I have about twenty
or thirty more Christmases
left in me.

I want to keep batting.





Wednesday, October 25, 2017

An Ode to What's Possible

© 2017 by P Michael Biggs




“That thing is impossible” they say.
And do we believe, just because they say?
How many times have we seen
the impossible made possible?
“It always seems impossible
until it’s done.”
Nelson Mandela said that.

Napoleon said “the word impossible
is not in my dictionary.”
Perhaps it means you haven’t found
the solution yet.  Perhaps.

Remember Thomas Carlyle?
He said “Every noble work
is at first impossible.”
And Alexander the Great added,
“There is nothing impossible to him
who will try.”

Walt Disney knew a thing or two
about impossible.  He said,
It’s kind of fun to do
the impossible.”

Alice, when wandering 
Wonder Land noted this,
Why sometimes, I’ve believed 
as many as six 
impossible things 
before breakfast

And so, we believe.
We believe in the impossible.
That’s what makes it possible.





Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Take Your Turn

© 2017 by P Michael Biggs




You don’t need
someone’s permission,
or a hall pass,
or a certification
to take your turn.

You just take it.

You don’t need
special clothes,
a theme song,
or the moon and stars
in their proper order
to take your turn.

You just take it.

We take our turn
when we are ready,
and sometimes …
when we are not.
We just step up
and take our turn.

We seize the moment,
we grasp the brass ring
and we do the thing.

We take our turn.

And sometimes
We stand in amazement
at how our turn
takes up places.

New and exciting places,
adventures, road trips,
mountain tops, scenic sea views.

I’m standing in line
ready to take my turn.

Come stand beside me.



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