Below you will find a small sample of some of the poems that Gene has written and published.  Click on the title to read the poem!  Scroll down and read them all!
 
 
 
Read Excerpt from Gene's new book, Beanball!
 
 
 
 

Sample poems from the book The Silly Side of Sports

 

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Sample poems from the book When Main Street Was One Block Long:

bulletSeeing Grandma
bullet Coloring Outside the Lines
bulletRibbon of Letters
bulletIn the Back Seat

Sample poems from the book Center Field Grasses:

 
bullet Backyard Glory
bullet Error, Little League
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bullet Reese and Rizzuto

 

Sample parodies from the book  Center Field Grasses:
 
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But I Was One-and-Twenty (A.E. Housman: "When I Was One-and-Twenty")
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Ebbets Field (Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Old Ironsides")
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To My Fans, on Becoming a Free Agent (Richard Lovelace, "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars")

Sample poems from the book Dancing on the Basepaths:

 
bullet From Part One (Untitled)
bullet From Part Two:  Marking the Lines
bullet From Part Three (Clerihew)

Sample Poems from the book Let the Poems Begin!

 
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Sample poems from the book  I Hit the Ball!:

 
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Sample poems from the book Breaking into a Smile:

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Misc. Poems

bullet Another April will Come
bulletBoxes
bulletCold Day in Hell
bulletNew Breath
bulletOur Town
bulletStaying in Line