“A Walk well Spent”

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“A Walk well Spent”

Well I broke out the new driver and hybrid three wood
Was pleased to find they went much farther than should


They’re all they say and have become the rage
Truly twenty yards longer even at my senior age


Hit some short irons to see they were accurate
With longer drives these greens I could attack it


In total confidence I went off to the first tee
The first drive longer than these old eyes could see


It was straight and far, yes right down the middle
So much closer to home than last months dribble


My young playing partners did stand in awe
A man twice their age with a far distant draw


So they strained and griped with muscular tips
A ball to go farther than the one that I ripped


But I was long and straight and in the short grass
A short shot to the green a birdie in my grasp


There is an old adage most golfers know
You “Drive for Show and Putt for Dough”


I certainly gave them a magnificent show
But alas they kept most of their dough


My putter was a flutter
Should have been left in the trunk


Even inside of ten feet
No putts would be sunk


A one putt became three
I fell into a funk


But with handicap factored
I still won by three


I bested them by par
the beers totally free!


At the 19th hole bar
with jubilant camaraderie


Young partners did share
and old man’s victory


Another Walk well spent!

 

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Hampton commented on “A Walk well Spent”

07-13-2009

A very nice poetic celebration of a day at the gold course. Good rhymes and flow. Nicely done. You scored an eagle with this fun poem

goinwest

07/15/2009

Thank you Hampton I always value your feedback. Any day on the golf course is a great day. But on this one there were less old man jokes! Thanks so much for sharing... Paul

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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