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Baseball Poems | Examples of Baseball Poetry

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 short, long, best, and famous poem examples for baseball.
Premium Member City Life Circa 1957
City 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...Read the rest...
Categories: baseball, growing up,
Form: Prose
about colors
about 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...Read the rest...
Categories: baseball, 7th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member BASEBALL STATS
Practiced 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...Read the rest...
Categories: baseball,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mickey and Duke go to Sleep - a Sequel
Dodgers 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....Read the rest...
Categories: baseball,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member World Series - Game 1
The 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....Read the rest...
Categories: baseball,
Form: Limerick



Don't Pitch To A Pitcher
Written 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...Read the rest...
Categories: baseball,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Mickey Mantle and Duke Snider Stand By
Looking 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,...Read the rest...
Categories: baseball,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: baseball, allegory, brother, for him,
Form: Narrative
Lust stole my tears
Alcohol 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....Read the rest...
Categories: addiction, baseball, crazy, depression,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Dedication to My Daughter
Dedicated to Elena Eagle ...Read the rest...
Categories: baseball, daughter, dedication, family,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Ghetto in my Head
I'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...Read the rest...
Categories: baseball, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Game of Chess on Wheels
a chess game on wheels doubles... triples… but those steals... inhale... breathe again ...Read the rest...
Categories: baseball, flying, inspirational, smart,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, america, baseball, future,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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,...Read the rest...
Categories: baseball, beautiful, birthday, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: america, analogy, baseball, celebrity,
Form: Limerick

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