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Ballpark Poems - Poems about Ballpark

I Am A Black Man In Florida Buried In A Unmarked Grave
... they built a ballpark over my bones, laid asphalt like a priest's last lie— no headstone, no name, just beer guts and baseball caps spilling nacho cheese where I once bled. I was twenty-thr......

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Categories: ballpark, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Magical Journey
... I hold three magic rocks, in my hand Rolling them over and over and over Leaving this reality behind, far behind Prompt by Constance La France Mirages aplenty, wow the haze is......

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Categories: ballpark, music,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member Vogon Without Regret
...Glimitz! According to your order - pronounce, I weigh less than an ounce. As gratchens flame and fly, to my disdain, I wonder, have you got a light? A conference call, a violin, a gently rap......

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Categories: ballpark, nonsense,
Form: Vogon Poetry
What Of Worldly Games
...Loud silence tends to speak in a definitive tone The derivatives are broken english singing a similar song An ape is just a copy taking a swing for the stands The ballpark in another league on......

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Categories: ballpark, education, games, meaningful, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Summer is Gone
...I intend to enjoy summer and the sun, warming my ancient skin. Once, I said goodbye to summer because one season must yield to the next, and it was time to attend school and learn. I said goodby......

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Categories: ballpark, life, memory, summer,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Brush With An Icon
...Jackie Robinson and I go way way back To the spring of nineteen forty-six A Montreal ballpark on a April afternoon The day the world was transfixed The colour barrier that existed in ba......

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Categories: ballpark, baseball, celebration, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Red-Hot Red-Hots
...The Cubs are still winning In fact, they're red-hot Out of 17 games, they've won quite a lot Out in L.A., they took five out of six even for a great team, a very good trick Le......

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Categories: ballpark, april, baseball, chicago, food,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mindfulness As Usual
...If I had an IQ of 17, would this be normal? My son, with cerebral palsy, no language capacity, no LeftBrain ability to read or write or speak using linguistic tools, with no hint of verb......

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Categories: ballpark, health, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member No Title, Yet - 88
...Reuniting with old friends is always lots of fun, Because it’s been years since we’ve seen each other. Back at the ballpark again for baseball in the sun Swapping stories about our new lives as mo......

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Categories: ballpark, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Best Gifts of This Life - 1,2
...I. Early Childhood’s Gifts Gift 1: Is love felt from our parents, our friends a true gift or more something we earn bit by bit over time, (a child adds to, subtracts from, as days turn to years......

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Categories: ballpark, appreciation, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rebooted Nostradamus Quatrains: Century I
...Quatrain 1 Sitting alone at nadir in serpentine sloth; it is placed on the breeding typo. A slight failure comes out of the emptiness and makes successful that which should not be believed in the......

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Categories: ballpark, funny, satire, surreal, word
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Hard Road To Easyville - Baron of Tunnel Hill
...I sat on the beach sifting time through my hands. I felt like a slot machine whore. The ocean was preaching her Siren’s demand I abandon my past at the shore. So, I shook off the sand, turned my ......

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Categories: ballpark, allegory, home,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Cheer Your Lungs Out
...The crack of the bat The arc of the ball It lands over the fence Gives the fans a thrill Close play at the plate A headfirst slide Clouds of dust raised He's safe; game's tied! Ch......

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Categories: ballpark, adventure, baseball, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Bums Play Somewhere Else
... Just in case this is something you didn't know before: the Dodgers don't play baseball in Brooklyn anymore. Ebbett's Field is a ballpark we will no longer see. It was torn down, and is n......

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Categories: ballpark, baseball, history, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Intricacies of the Game
...Another baseball season begins and as teams vie for fortune and for fame…I’m reminded of the time I tried to teach my children…. THE INTRICACIES OF THE GAME It was years ago when we took our ch......

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Categories: ballpark, baseball, family, life,
Form: Rhyme

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