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Best Big League Poems

Below are the all-time best Big League poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of big league poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member My Man
This a phrase I hear a lot;
Who’s your man, who you got?
Mine’s the man who at games end;
When death has crept up to his cot;
In...

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Categories: big league, dad, dream, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Think Before You Act
When the lights go out
An the curtains close 
Everyone goes home what do you do
Do you stay behind to study your lines 
And make a...

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Categories: big league, inspirational, life, uplifting, family,
Form: ABC
Little League
One, two, three strikes your out
Playing our rivals, another epic bout

The stress of playing inning after inning
Sweaty hands and butterflies are all beginning

It's the start...

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© Abe Lopez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: big league, sports
Form: Couplet



When I Grow Up
There once was a boy who didn't know what he wanted to do when he grew up

The taller he grew
The more he wondered what to...

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© Chad Weeks  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: big league, childhood, children,
Form: Free verse
First Fantastic Poem In Series
My Continuous Incredible Poem Series is
dedicated to Will Rogers, Robert Frost and
Ogden Nash who I forever will admire and
use as examples to follow. With them...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: big league, funny, humorous,
Form: Blank verse
That Glorious Sound
Every kid loves to hear that glorious sound                 ...

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Categories: big league, baseball, dad, dream, games,
Form: Rhyme



Absent
Absent was the word I remember as meaning
not present in school.

Now that term represents way more in my life.
Being manic depressive there are certain levels...

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Categories: big league, happy, sorrow,
Form: Blank verse
A Life In Gum
having grown up with a smoker for a father
i have most certainly inhaled my fair share of second-hand
so i never fell for the allure of...

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Categories: big league, lifelife, me, red,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Holy Crappola
Holy crappola
Every day that goes by
Gets tougher to remember
To do up my fly

Constantly happening
I'll be flying low
The girlies do gawk
As I put on a show

I'm...

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Categories: big league, humor,
Form: Quatrain
Moderate Debauchery, Part I
When I was fifteen my friend 'Riff' and I
started our very own garage band,
and for the first year we truly stank,
but I've always been a...

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Categories: big league, addiction, celebrity, endurance, music,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Salute To Ryan Howard
You took over play at first base one day,
and showed everyone you were there to stay.
Your big league career no one could delay;
you were too...

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Categories: big league, dedication
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cole Hamels
He is a San Diego native southpaw.
One of the best young pitchers I ever saw.
The Phillies chose him first in 2002.
In 2006 was his big...

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Categories: big league, dedication, sports,
Form: Rhyme
College-League Baseball Sonnet
Small stadium built in the late forties,
minor-league once, but has been left behind,
built with girders and backless, wooden seats,
a local relic of an older time.
The...

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Categories: big league, america, appreciation, baseball, imagery,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Let the Foxes In and Shut the Villians Out
Foxes found themselves at home 
In a match they could dial in by phone 
A villain came into their midst 
Trying to cure themselves from...

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Categories: big league, confidence, england, football, good
Form: Rhyme
Outbreak, The
Midway twenty twenty, 
we are keeping a fair distance,
We somehow went back to nineteen eighteen
on paper-boat with supersonic speed,
A virus showed again up 
From Northern...

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Categories: big league, africa, april, death, february,
Form: Narrative