Baseball Poems | Examples of Baseball Poetry

The more other sports change the more baseball stays the same Bleeding fans as well as talented players the ‘national pastime’ needs our prayers ...Read the rest...

"Know your value. Confidence breeds success. Act like the person you want to become, and people will start seeing you as that person." ~ Mark M. Ford ~ “With confidence let success be vengeance for all...Read the rest...

Diving for the ball, Balling into a dust- Orange roll, The catcher tossed it back to the pitcher After a ball three, and walked up to him. The descent of the night's sky Made the ballfield lights a sudden relevance. The...Read the rest...

An MLB pitcher has butterflies ‘til he throws his first pitch Me, I get ‘em the whole season for no particular reason ...Read the rest...

I am a brand new baseball. The pitcher waits for the call. He holds me tight, Until the time is right. The pitcher lets me go. Through the air I flow. The bat has a powerful swing, But I end up in...Read the rest...

I said I ain't been on no bike He said, 'Well, there it is.' Premature baldness and popcorn muscles I told him I got a B in History He said, 'What a life you're gonna have.' This is what I'm...Read the rest...

I know I should be extremely grateful For God's gift of life But I have no life at all Trapped like a rat Behind four foreboding walls No one rings And no one calls Trapped on an isolated uncharted island Miles...Read the rest...

Life is a circle.  Situations are a mixture.  A circle of thinkable and unthinkable opportunities gets you jumping irrelevantly.  The slipy nature of happiness goes in haste; you want to stop, but it passes out.  A one is tired, a...Read the rest...

Children's Poems X These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. Always by Michael R. Burch for Jeremy Know in your heart that I love you as no other, and...Read the rest...

The Tapestry of Leaves Michael R. Burch Leaves unfold as life is sold or bartered, for a moment in the sun. The interchange of lives is strange: what reason—life—when death leaves all undone? O, earthly son when rest is won and wrested from this ground,...Read the rest...

Children's Poems IV These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. Boundless by Michael R. Burch for Jeremy Every day we whittle away at the essential solidity of him, and...Read the rest...

Fantasies glisten. Wealth untold. Dimly clear; seen near and afar. Wee men; chase around pots of gold. Missed heaven. Prospecting a star. She wishes; he’d only listen. When lovers drift. They drift bizarre. Act out; miscue the rendition. Missed heaven. Prospecting a...Read the rest...

The crack of the bat, The roar of the crowd, The smell of the earth, In these hallowed fields. The taste of the hotdog, The sun in my face, The warm gentle breeze, In these hallowed fields. The windup of the pitcher, The call...Read the rest...

“In a rundown, the runner is in a pickle that could become a rhubarb.” ~ by poet Rundown. He's trapped between bases being pursued by the fielders who glibly smile because they know they have the advantage, to perhaps overtake and...Read the rest...

Spring Training camps open now baseball players take their first bows It's months I've been fervently wishing for this rhythm of life...Read the rest...