<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=434303" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Definitions As An Intention To Describe</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Definitions as an intention to describe, <br>Can be so confining to the mind.<br>Case in point...<br>Having to 'some' a meaning.<br>But...<br>To those probing their observations, <br>Making little sense to make sensible...<br>A reason to find a rhyme.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I remember when I heard the term, <br>'Baseball' used.<br>And when I went to my first game, <br>I was not overwhelmed with excitement.<br>I couldn't get the 'bat' out of my head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Why isn't this game called 'Batball'...<br>Instead of baseball? '<br>I kept thinking of that.<br>Without the bat, <br>There wouldn't be any baseball played.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unlike basket...ball.<br>I can understand that.<br>Foot...ball, <br>Okay...<br>I'm sold.<br>Base...ball? <br>And all that the bases do, <br>Is just lay there? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Home...plate? <br>That's not a home...base? <br>And the hitting of a 'homerun'...<br>That's out of the field of play? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whoever created this game, <br>Is a genius.<br>The terms used as they are applied, <br>Makes absolutely no sense.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can understand, <br>Why it's one of the most favorite sports.<br>Like golf! <br>When a player hits that ball, <br>That might endanger onlookers...<br>A shouting of 'fore' is heard.<br>Fore...what? <br>If one is hit...<br>Be-fore the word is heard, <br>That's it.<br>And even after 'fore'...<br>What difference does it make? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The other day...<br>I watched a player of 'baseball' lose his bat.<br>It went flying into the stadium...<br>To hit someone in the head.<br>No one warned the 'victim' at all.<br>No one shouted...<br>'Watch 'that'.<br>It's a flying bat.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hmmm...<br>Flying bats? <br>At a baseball game? <br>Where the selling of hot...dogs, <br>And pea...nuts with beer...<br>Is a tradition.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And someone wishes to keep the writing of poetry, <br>To restrictions? <br>By whose definition? <br>And when does prose not become poetry?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=434303" data-title="Definitions As An Intention To Describe de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Definitions as an intention to describe, Can be so confining to the mind. Case in point... Having to 'some' a meaning. But... To those probing their observations, Making little sense to make sensible... A reason to find a rhyme. I remember when..."></div> </div> </div>

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