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Best At Bat Poems

Below are the all-time best At Bat poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of at bat poems written by PoetrySoup members


Chimney Swift
My precious chimney swift
Envy alone
Has named you so mundane
Tethered to the slightest pause
Amid your life upon the wing
Describing you as drab
Cigar shaped
And flying like a...

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Categories: at bat, appreciation, bird, psychological,
Form: Free verse



An Eternity I
Stood upright, between two roads,
On a thin metal rail,
A solitary, brown coloured bottle 
Of beer,          ...

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Categories: at bat, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dark Everywhere
A softer breeze blows his way
And a sunny day shines everywhere
Painting the sky blue and grey. 

But those hues are not for him,
For him it's...

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Categories: at bat, dark,
Form: Free verse
Baseball Card
And there you were - 
blue cap and jersey, white pants
bat held high above the shoulder
cocked and ready to swat one out
in that perfect stance...

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Categories: at bat, baseball, son,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Of Days Gone By
Sometimes I laugh
Sometimes I cry
Sometimes I dream
Of Days gone by

Life was hard, each day we learned
We never wanted what we hadn’t earned
A handshake at the...

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Categories: at bat, nostalgiaprayer, autumn,
Form: Rhyme



Cats Cats Cats
on...                        ...

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Categories: at bat, pets,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Under the Boardwalk - a Sensual Love Story
Sheer poetry in motion with a picnic basket in hand 
Laughing brandishing a bottle as he lopes along the sand
His handsome features completely wreathed in...

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Categories: at bat, love, lust, romance, sensual,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Batter Up, No Longer
From outfield judging eyes await your plight, 
though sweat and stupor feign to your ruin.
Now pull up your trousers, cinch your belt tight...
glaring down from...

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Categories: at bat, allegory, crush, endurance, passion,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Hound Dog Tale
As the 
story
goes...

A
pesky
fly, 
came buzzing by
to rest and munch
and eat his lunch
and have some fun
on the hound dog's 
nose.

The old dog
snoozed 
without a clue
in the...

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Categories: at bat, old,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In My Opinion
Everything that’s happening this year
was all planned out.
That’s what Agenda 21 (declared as false online)
 is all about.
Documents related to the plan
are out there in...

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Categories: at bat, political,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Remember the Ovens
Cuckoos hushed, rambling vines and plight.
Hordes of birch, beech, pine, spruce and oak.
Choke of darkness, forcing midnight.
Wax and breadcrumbs children-ditched folks.

Hordes of birch, beech, pine,...

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Categories: at bat, allusion, angst,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Land and Sea
Do you wish to hold me?
We can drift on the sea my love,
under the stars above.
You were my lovely dove so free,
who captivated me.

I thought...

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Categories: at bat, angst, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Clown At the Abyss
Italian restaurant; pasta and wine - red, like the eyes of a bat,
Screeching from a cave, dark as the eyes of a snowman,
Coal plucked from...

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Categories: at bat, allegory, conflict, confusion, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Pain Game
Why do people, want to cause
Other people pain
Where is the Love 
That will break the chain

Someone says something
Then it's tit-for-tat
I've played this before
We all know...

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Categories: at bat, abuse, anger, betrayal, emotions,
Form: Lyric
Granny Panty Annie, the Tranny
Lemme tell ya' about a
*ding-bat skit-zo 
bee-hotch* tranny
named Annie...

I met her one night 
under disco lights 
up at Candies

She was 
starin' at me
grittin' her teeth
aimin'...

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Categories: at bat, adventure, black african american,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs