Baseball Poems - Examples of all types of baseball poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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City Life Circa 1957City life, for kids, before the onslaught of helicopter parents and mandatory parental involvement in every aspect of growing up. We played baseball, no umpires, the bases pieces of cardboard, scratched in dirt, or...
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Categories:
baseball, growing up,
Form: Prose
about colorsabout colors
So pale the rosebush on the verandah
is it because the night is so long and cold
the flowers look like the red purses
little girls have a few pennies in
kept hidden for her brother, a few
pennies...
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Categories:
baseball, 7th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
BASEBALL STATSPracticed cursive writing
With a dash of calligraphy
Wrote my name on a baseball
Struck out three times that day
Made an error too
Alas the baseball odds are zany
If you succeed but once in three
But if you’re going oh...
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Categories:
baseball,
Form: Free verse
Mickey and Duke go to Sleep - a SequelDodgers in five. Yankee fans weep.
Four times Freddie Freeman went deep.
See hope we feel you here
again, this time next year.
Duke and Mickey go back to sleep....
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Categories:
baseball,
Form: Limerick
World Series - Game 1The bat is in Freddy Freeman's grip.
He's injured, but can he let it rip?
With two outs, bases loaded,
first pitch, his bat exploded -
grand slam! Freddy takes a four-base trip....
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Categories:
baseball,
Form: Limerick
Don't Pitch To A PitcherWritten By: D. Collins 10/25/24
Don't pitch to a pitcher, they know how the ball drops.
What spin is upon it, to put it out the park.
Don't pitch to a pitcher, if his name is Shohei.
Your...
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Categories:
baseball,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Mickey Mantle and Duke Snider Stand ByLooking down from somewhere up in the sky.
Mickey Mantle and Duke Snider stand by.
Below, Bronx Bombers, all in their pinstripes,
come out swinging their bats, taking their swipes.
Dem Bums have Shohei Ohtani and Betts.
Get ready,...
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Categories:
baseball,
Form: Couplet
Kelley
there were his baseball cards
collected in a shoebox,
his model submarines, and planes.
he paced in a restless waddle
from corner to corner in our bedroom.
he could beat me at any game
and always wanted to prove it.
the five...
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Categories:
baseball, allegory, brother, for him,
Form: Narrative
Lust stole my tearsAlcohol whispered lust to me firsthand,
I mistook my wife for a one night stand,
Drunkeness brought me the blame
Beer! Why put me into shame?
Booze then made me cry dry, tears of my gland.
8th October, 2024....
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Categories:
addiction, baseball, crazy, depression,
Form: Limerick
Dedication to My Daughter
Categories:
baseball, daughter, dedication, family,
Form: Monorhyme
Ghetto in my HeadI've never been in a war zone
but one time I got lost on my way to wriggly field
ending up in a tilted, burned-out ghetto.
A cherry pulled me over for being out of place
and said leave...
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Categories:
baseball, poverty,
Form: Free verse
A Game of Chess on Wheels
a chess game on wheels
doubles... triples… but those steals...
inhale... breathe again
...
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Categories:
baseball, flying, inspirational, smart,
Form: Senryu
DECONSTRUCTING MAJOR LEAGE BASEBALL
DECONSTRUCTING Major League Baseball
When will MLB fans acknowledge
and question the REAL Cheating
taking place right under their noses.
The Pitch Clock
The Pitch Count
THE CLOSER
The Netting
The Expansion
THE PHANTOM BASE RUNNER
The...
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Categories:
abuse, america, baseball, future,
Form: Free verse
Destination MLB Birthday Wishes Grandson
A tall baseball player with a bat, he knocks it clear
out of the park!
Whilst other boys sit so comfortably at their home,
he is a Varsity player, under bright lights, in the dark!
So goal-driven,...
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Categories:
baseball, beautiful, birthday, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Lou And Doug“Politics is a contact sport” —Steve Chabot
It ain't over 'till it's over —Yogi Berra
Loug And Doug
Pleasant gentlemen both, broad shouldered and tall
Good sports who respect the umpire's call
Playing the game with pride and...
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Categories:
america, analogy, baseball, celebrity,
Form: Limerick
Specific Types of Baseball Poems
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