Best Play Ball Poems

I have attempted to capture my favorite major league baseball players in this little shape poem of home plate. Included are (in no particular order):

Say...

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NOTE:  This poem means a lot to me for it brings back memories of my childhood. My father, a WWII veteran was, in my...

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POTD 7 Oct 2020

Step ever so light
Into this treacherous night
Creatures that abandon the day
come out to play

Hear those June winds howl
To the hoot of an...

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Being the shortest in my high school gym class
Attempts to play basketball brought no success
Broke my finger while trying to catch a pass
Leaping to take...

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>Playing games with tennis balls?

Men, playing games with tennis balls!
Earn far too much dough.
In the game of tennis you know.
Some male players are now acting...

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"Boy! We're gonna be the best of friends!
Lying here, I watch you sleeping,
I sure hope that this will not be a trend
'Cause when we play...

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Young boys
Love toys
Ring chimes
Sing rhymes
Climb trees
Skin knees
Catch frogs
Pat dogs
Love grime
Spit slime
Downfalls
Spitballs

Teen boys
Fix toys 
Wear jeans
Plant beans
Split logs
Rope hogs
Play ball
Stand tall
Joins Scouts
Sings shouts
Show up
Grow up

Late teens
Build...

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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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Oh how I fantasized that his large
    dark eyes would look my way.
Seated behind him in sixth grade
    I...

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Where does my kitty cat go every day?
When I'm heading to school, is he getting away?
Or forgetting he musn't let strays in to play?

Where does...

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 A FABLE FOLLOWS


Seeing her son’s smile fade and his face turn to bother,
A question she made, then asked, as his loving Mother.
“Why is your...

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"Teach us to care and not to care;
  teach us to sit still."
           ...

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Holding back his tears
In front of him, a soldier kneels
As the mourners look on saddened
Inside the little boy feels

To grow up without his father
As he...

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My Pet Poems, WOODY

Not long after our heart-stealing beauty
Watson passed, Jim drove me off from
The breeder’s and I sat in the passenger seat
With a cocker,...

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Hey, do you know me Mr.? 
I'm not asking if you know my name 
I mean, do you know me as a person presently? 
for...

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