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Best Slugger Poems

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


Mrs Grundy and the Butcher
Ted Cogger is our local butcher and he’s been here seven years;
full forward for the footy team and drinks a nightly seven beers.
He played one...

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Categories: slugger, humor,
Form: Rhyme



A Homerun
A HOMERUN

Golden gloves catch.
Louisville slugger hits the ball.
A homerun made.
He shouts home sweet home was my aim.

The clouds were clear.
The crowd shouted from the stands.
This...

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Categories: slugger, america, baseball, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Respected
No need to brag
Jeter #2 was born to play and win; now that’s swag
For twenty years he has been the face of the MLB
Games played...

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Categories: slugger, baseball, goodbye, retirement, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth
To tell the truth
Was as good a hugger
As a slugger...

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Categories: slugger, humor,
Form: Clerihew
More Important Than Life Itself
On some English grass
On a piece of land forever England
Warriors of the realm
Take holy orders, on their Fathers grave
To defend the honour of their local...

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Categories: slugger, friendship, funny, sports, fear,
Form: Free verse



Senior Citizen Gets Tough
It happened several years ago
But it is a true story in the flow
A Senior Citizen woman being my Grandmother
She was a strong woman like no...

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Categories: slugger, abuse, anti bullying, bible,
Form: Rhyme
The Park Contest
The Park Contest
Sponsor: Craig Cornish


Somewhere between a toddler and a teen,
I carried visions of my future days.
It was just us, my sweetest friend Christine,
at our...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slugger, beauty, childhood, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Casey On Second
(With apologies to Ernest Lawrence Thayer, author of "Casey at the Bat".)

The Mudville nine and Casey have their chance for sweet revenge;
They play today in...

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© Ed Morris  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slugger, baseball, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Bird Brain and Pigeon Toe

Two of the wackiest guys I know,
	live two doors down, 
		           one flight below

Tall is...

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Categories: slugger, friendship, fun, humorous, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Legend of Nolan Ryan Major League Baseballs Strike Out King
It's not easy becoming a Legendary  
Major League Baseball pitcher.
It never was and will never be.
You get put through the wringer
and hung out to...

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Categories: slugger, baseball, character, culture, identity,
Form: Free verse
Forever Tracey-She Never Stopped Loving Me
I was born before her-
but she existed 
long before my life's debut.
Ancient Spirit.......
Old Soul!....Really Old Soul!
The "Great I AM"
knows her as "Tracey, You AM!"
As a...

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Categories: slugger, daughter, father daughter, god,
Form: Free verse
It's Not Our Right To Judge Others
When we are judged by others
It has us ducking running for cover
Many of us discover
The people who do it rarely recover
The respect and love that...

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Categories: slugger, anger, anxiety, brother, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hugs
Don't be alarmed by me
I've always been a hugger
In touch with my emotions
No one calls me slugger

In fact I have been known
To wear my heart...

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Categories: slugger, emotions, friendship, people,
Form: Quatrain
The Pitched Ball
the pitched ball
of its many proponents we have signed almost all
but nary a slugger
imbalance has struck, it's likely too late, so bugger....

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Categories: slugger, betrayal,
Form: Clerihew
The Pitched Ball
the pitched ball
of its many proponents we have signed almost all
but hardly a single slugger
imbalance has struck, it's likely too late, so bugger....

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Categories: slugger, art,
Form: Clerihew

Book: Shattered Sighs