by Danielle Koehler | Aug 2, 2021 | Poems
“Same emotions occur when my ballplayer who turned into a Dad has twins.“ He used to play third like nobody else, A star on each youth team he played. He’d run down pop flies and dive for ground balls Making plays that left teammates amazed. Is this the same boy in...
by Danielle Koehler | Aug 2, 2021 | Poems
“Baseball has been a part of my family’s life since my first son was old enough to lift a glove. I coached both boys at various times in their baseball careers, and also my daughter for a memorable year of rec-league softball. The picture below was taken on my last...
by Danielle Koehler | Aug 2, 2021 | Poems
“And then the kids start getting married. As parents, we worry, and don’t want them to leave. We still feel responsible … but they enter a new life. That life is only partially without us … because we’re still there in places they don’t know and cannot yet...
by Danielle Koehler | Aug 2, 2021 | Poems
“A wonderful young man by the name of Don Simmons was my right-hand person in my earliest business venture. He died all too soon, and his family requested something almost impossible for me to emotionally handle: give the eulogy. I composed this poem as a part of it …...
by Danielle Koehler | Aug 2, 2021 | Poems
When I thought about getting family and friends to help illustrate my simple poetry for a book we might someday publish, my sweet little niece, Sage, presented me a drawing she wanted to be included. It was a rainbow. I didn’t have a poem about Rainbows … so I wrote...
