My Poetry

The wind is whispering through my body
"Come hither" it cries 
"Pledge fealty and I can make way for the sun"
My body rides the wind's shuddering, enjoying its cold guffaws
I let out my own chuckle and find my soul escapes with it
Do I even want to see the sun?
My lost soul, the wind's cold might, and its disorientation
Ah the damned disorientation
The south wind calls now, to be replaced by the entire compass
"Come hither" echoes more voices than I decipher
"Come hither" for the joy, for us, for yourself, for golden rays!
"Shut up" I am sick of the howling 
yet my soul is floating on its freezing fury
I must follow a wind.
To foci of the Earth they may go, I must follow one
All promise the sun, all offer gentle guffaws, all happily freeze
and steal my soul, and I....
I call for the lightning bolt to break apart the wind and sweep
me to Valhalla

© 1996 Russell Weisfield
Published in Dance Upon the Shore

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The Plea of a Lost Youth

I cry
I cry at my childhood removed from me
At that boy sent off to the sea
No choice but to be other me's

I lie
I lie so all of man can hear
To bestow all with my fear
So I may then force their tears

I cringe
I cringe what others force me do
"No other way, it is the only you"
Now needed, to see a day new

I whine
I whine about this old rhyme
That I am made into crime
I'd love to die, 
if I could find the time

© 1994 Russell Weisfield
Published in Mt. Lebanon Writing Book

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Nicknames

          

Cap, Matches, Three-Finger, and Pie
Larry, Iron Man, Iron Horse, and Cy.

Pete, Big Six, Barney, Sliding Billy, and Big Ed.
Lefty, Double X, Big Cat, and Bonehead Fred.

The Georgia Peach, Sluggo, Fordham Flash, and the Flying Dutchman
Iron Hands, No Neck, Yogi, Chico, and the Tall Tactician.

The Ol' Professor, Rockin' Robin, and Say Hey.
The Rocket, Express, Rapid Robert, and Doctor K.

Scooter, The General, Little Nap, and Country,
Killer, King Carl, Gentle Jeems, and Ducky.

Wee Willie, Choo Choo, Home Run, and The Lip
King Kong, The Yankee Clipper, Glass Arm, and Bip.

Rajah, Charlie Hustle, The Eck, and Dizzy,
Goose, Sweet Music, The Mad Hungarian, and Campy.

Cool Papa, Commy, The Crab, Thumper, and The Bambino,
Mr. October, Sudden Sam, Smoky Joe, and Manito.

Here is to some of the heroes of the game.
To forever be immortalized by their nicknames.

© 1993 Russell Weisfield
Published in Tap Dancing on the Edge of Reality

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Real Names of Nicknames

Anson, Matt Kilroy, Mordecai Brown, and Traynor
Napoleon Lajoie, Mcginnity, Lou Gehrig, and Young

Alexander, Mathewson, Walter Johnson, Billy Hamilton, and Ed Walsh
(pick one), Foxx, Mize, and Merkle,

Cobb, Slaught, Frisch, and Honus Wagner
Chuck Hillier, Williams, Berra, Lind, and Connie Mack

Stengal, Yount, and Mays
Clemens, Nolan Ryan, Feller, and Gooden

Rizzuto, Clark Griffith, Mcgraw, and Enos Slaughter
Killebrew, Hubbel, Pud Galvin, and Medwick

Keeler, Choo Choo Coleman, Baker, and Durocher
Charlie Keller, Joe Dimaggio, Eddie Brown, and Roberts

Hornsby, Pete Rose, Eckersley, and Dean,
Goslin(or Gossage), Viola, Hrbrovsky, and Campanella(or Campenaris)

James Bell, Commisky, Evers, Ted Williams, and George Ruth
Reggie Jackson, McDowell, Wood, and Marichal.

© 1993 Russell Weisfield
Published in Tap Dancing on the Edge of Reality

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