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Best Pitcher Poems

Below are the all-time best Pitcher poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of pitcher poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Pitcher Perfect
The Lord poured me, a pitcher of time.
For my personal use, it was only mine.

A generous portion, it seemed I got.
I wasted so much, I...

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Categories: pitcher, time,
Form: Couplet



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: pitcher, allegory, crush, endurance, passion,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Look Ahead
When breathless pain of sorrow 

                   ...

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Categories: pitcher, beautiful, destiny, father, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ballpark
The dream of every Little Leaguer
in our town was to play in The Ballpark.
The Ballpark was the diamond 
where all the Major League games were...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pitcher, baseball, childhood, dream, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Batter Up
She comes to bat with the score tied three to three.
Staring out at the pitcher,
she goes into her stance, 
just hoping the ball will come...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pitcher, granddaughter, softball,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Remember When
I suppose I'm revealin' my age as I compose this little ditty,
But as I compare costs today with yesteryear I exclaim, "What a pity!"
Gas cost...

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Categories: pitcher, humorous, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Another Man's Clothes
The idea behind this poem came from reading a poem of the same title, written by Richard “Canadian Man-god” Lamoureux. Now, his poem went in...

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Categories: pitcher, games, life, lust,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member I Am the River
I Am The River…
I am the river;
poured out
of God’s  
celestial pitcher:
a full river;
swollen with His tears.

I am the river;
my banks hold
the flow
of a nation:
denied,...

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Categories: pitcher, allegory, black african american,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Strikeout
Standing at the plate there is no doubt
The pitcher is determined to strike me out
He squints to see the catcher's glove
Then spins and swings his...

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Categories: pitcher, baseball, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Aquarius
I go where mountain streams converge
And stand with pitcher on the verge
Of a transparent tranquil pool
Where waters merge lucent and cool
There is the grass sparkling...

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Categories: pitcher, imagery, water,
Form: Couplet
Slamin the Poet Destroyer
Hey P.D.
You think you can compete with me 
But you can’t take the heat 
Get out of my kitchen 
Go back to your easy bake...

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© Nate D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pitcher, slamme, me,
Form: Free verse
My Son Eli
You came to me before I was ready
I cried when I heard of your existence
Over night my youth was gone
Worried sick that I wouldn’t be...

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Categories: pitcher, son, tribute, life, me,
Form: Free verse
Fritterbatter
No one is more famous than Allo Wishis
Who, with his bat, broke all 108 stitches
Exposing a yarn ball, the leather fell fast
Causing the fans, to...

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Categories: pitcher, sports
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cowboyin'
Cowboyin' seems so romantical as seen in th' pitcher shows.
Ain't a lick uv truth in that as ever' workin' cowpoke knows.
Movie stars is paid big...

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Categories: pitcher, cowboy-westernstars,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ballpark Part 2 the Game
It only took about ten minutes for me to warm up,
so, I had time to play catch with a friend on my team.
The line-ups were...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pitcher, baseball, change, childhood, dream,
Form: Free verse

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