Write Baseball Poems

What Is Happening?

Yes, the little Genie asked
What is happening?
Children aren’t being taught
To tell time,
They can’t look at the clock and
Know whether it’s one o’clock
Or it’s...

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Times the world overloads me
All I see
Close my ears
Cover their tears
Seek some peace of my own
To protect me from all I've been shown
Since I don't...

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I thought to write of butterflies.
Also of birds, their lovely song.
but then I came to realize
poems about them are miles long.
    ...

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Round Mudville Market, foul air was omnipresent
butchers rent fowls’ necks to make tenant's rent, 
the scene that was seen was most unpleasant.

As sunset fell, we...

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The first three pitches: just outside. Pitch four:
right at the knees - "Steerike!", the umpire calls.
I wait to get the pitch I'm hoping for…
The next...

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Take me in to the Ball Game
   Take me into my room
Just switch on the old-fashioned radio
   For a taste of...

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Opening Day with a Little Delay

Take me out to the ball game
 Of balls and strikes - bloopers and perfect games; 
 Basket catches, ERA’S,...

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Some numbers tumble down the hallowed halls of baseball’s past -
a sport of numbers after all, these memories hold fast.
Stan Musial wore #6, Lou Gehrig,...

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I am looking forward to growing old,
staying in bed when mornings are cold.
Trips to the ocean to breathe the fresh air, 
with nary a thought...

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One More

Raise the curtain, 
I am ready. 
Let's write and read together, 
for hours without end. 
Dressing up in costumes, 
singing crazy shanties, 
or Round...

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Sitting here on the fabled Lower East Side 
I watch the electric warriors on my TV screen 
7 innings of shut out ball for the...

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I watched as the Mets slammed the opposition 10 -2 
Been a fan for years
Played catcher for a little while as a kid
Watching sports is...

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It is turning into an all nighter...
Each world series team turn into a fighter
Thirteenth inning and the game still going
Hits, slides and exciting ball throwing
A...

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DO NOT FALL IN LOVE WITH A POET
by Jonah Okpabi
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Do not fall in love with a Poet
Poets are poor
Their pockets are empty
Above all they are...

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Nine times a fish tail is spun from thin yarn?

Swimming in tepid waters often relieves tensions but a moose with a migraine prefers an ice...

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