Comin’ Home


Original digital hyperealistic art: “Gettin’ All of It”
by: rob kistner © 8/21/23

 

M y hand gripped tight the pine tar
gonna drive this baby far

as the pitch wound to deliver
I felt muscle and sinew shiver

I swung a mighty swing
felt that subtle sting

crack!

the ball rocketed to flight
cleared the fence
— outta sight!

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rob kistner © 8/17/23
Poetry at: dVerse

 




20 thoughts on “Comin’ Home”

        1. For extra income during and after high school I also helped manage a parking lot for my uncle at Crosley Field, home of the Big Red Machine, from 1964 to 1970.

    1. Thank you so much Mish. I am not a big basebaull fan anymore, mostly soccer. However, of all edperiences in sports, few compare with the almost magical feeling of a big barrel 34” WOODEN Louisville Slugger making contact with the taut round hardball, and feeling it explode like w rocket off your bat. It is alomost spiritual. I will never forget that feeling. You almost don’t fedl the vntactnwhen you hit it with the “sweet spot” WOW!!

  1. This sounds like a delightful memory… I never played this but we had a game called “brännboll” that shares some of the aspects of baseball.

    1. Baseball and rock Elvis ten the Beatles that was my uouth. Shortly after came Triumph Bonneville 650cc motorvycle .. got the cycle the sme year I started my first band. I as 13 and couldn’t legally drive it — but I did… 😉

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