Cor van den Heuvel: Baseball Haiku

Chautauqua Institution

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Cor van den Heuvel Reads Baseball Haiku and Senryu

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al fogel

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Posted: 01.26.11, 08:19 PM

Hello: I immensely enjoyed your baseball haiku telecast. My name is al fogel--a 65 year old retired gentleman residing in Miami Beach, Florida. I began writing senryu 3 months ago and created a baseball haiku / senryu sequence comprised of 13 haiku/ senryu titled "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" that I would like to share with your audience

Take Me Out To The Ball Game

(a haiku / senryu baseball sequence)

pre-game:

Bobblehead Day
pigeons in the bleachers
pecking seeds

Yankee Tribute Day
8 Yogi Berra's
in the front row

Old Timer's Game
Whitey Ford's fastball
clocked at 28 mph

autograph signing
the line of outstretched notepads
above the dugout

the game:

knuckleball
the infielders watch
a flying bat

fastball
a thud in the mitt
before he swings

strike three!
different fingers fly
from ump and batter

7th inning stretch
the heightened aroma
of hot dogs and beer

14th inning
a stray pigeon wobbles
into the empty bullpen

15th inning
the shortstop becomes
the pitcher

walk-off home run
homer pigeons nodding
in the stands

post-game:

game over
the slap of high fives
from the infield

next day
watching my team win again...
instant replay

--al fogel

Thanks for viewing,

al

**first verse Bobblehead Day.." selected as runner-up in the HCC Calendar Competition 2011 (1,100 entries)

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