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Foul Ball Poems - Poems about Foul Ball

Premium MemberThe Day I Lost A Quarter

...I first fell in love with baseball back when I was 8 yrs old when I went to a Yankee game and was very fortunate to have gotten to see the great Mickey Mantle play. It was a school class trip, and th...
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Categories: foul ball, baseball,
Form: Haibun

Premium MemberBaseball

...I am a brand new baseball.
The pitcher waits for the call.
He holds me tight,
Until the time is right.

The pitcher lets me go.
Through the air I flow.
The bat has a powerful swing,
But I end...
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Categories: foul ball, baseball, celebration, games,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberI Didn'T Know That

..."I Didn't Know That" 

I didn’t know that 
A Be couldn’t sting
Or that a Bee was not a B.
I’m confused.

I didn’t know that
I should No better
Or that Know was not a No.
I’m confused.

I ...
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Categories: foul ball, confusion, funny, language, light,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberShoulda Seen It

...Got fired for loafing on the job.
         I shoulda seen it comin’.
Crossing a street, a car hit me.
         I shoulda seen it comin’.
A foul ball hit me on the head.
         I shoulda seen i...
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Categories: foul ball, baseball, car, change, girl,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSummertime

...Kids shout,
“School’s out!”

So soon,
it’s June.

July,
temp’s high.

Kids play
all day.

Ump’s call:
“Foul ball.”

Grass grows. 
Dad mows.

Sun’s hot.
Pool’s not.

Rest time, 
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Categories: foul ball, childhood, summer,
Form: Footle



Foul Ball

...The man tried to catch a foul ball
But his body was too tall
The ball hit his ribs
Then hit his small Dibbs
Which bounces him into a wall...
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Categories: foul ball, funny, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Base Ball

...The Stats show a Brooklyn Dodger
Scored RBIs with his todger
Then one day at bat
A Foul Ball went splat
And now he's Soprano Codger 


RBI=Runs Batted In...
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Categories: foul ball, baseball,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberBig Time Losers Vs Winners

...Following rules, we learned as kids,do you remember?
Do not take another's pencil, it is a sin, nor their precious toys 
nor dimes to in your pockets, put in,

What allows us now, to steal with s...
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Categories: foul ball, character, dedication,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberBaseball Footles

...* If you don't understand baseball, you might not understand some of these.I I had no idea of the hundreds of terms used. PR...


steal base.   
such grace


cold beer
bring here


foul ba...
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Categories: foul ball, baseball, words,
Form: Footle

Premium MemberAmerica's Pasttime

...On our way into the stadium before the game had even begun
I saw them walking together…a father and his son.

They were excited, smiling…laughing as father and son are wont to do
They had on matc...
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Categories: foul ball, baseball, father son,
Form: Verse

Whence I Became a Poet

...When did writing poetry become such a foul ball in my life?
When my surroundings and the people in it decided I couldn't
get rich writing it.
So, I put it away for a while and concluded that I had...
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Categories: foul ball, america, courage, environment,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFoul Ball

...Oops
Laughing
A foul ball
You run to first
Base for a Re-do...
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Categories: foul ball, baseball,
Form: Lanterne

Softball

...Striekouts
On Base Percentage
Foul Ball
Teammates
Batting Average
Averages
Leadership
Love for the game...
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Categories: foul ball, softball, sports,
Form: Acrostic

Beauty and Diviersity

...A baseball game is fun to watch and cheer
For nine innings are spectators all geared
Pitchers and batters, runners and fielders
Excitement uncontained as umpires yell there
Batter up is the sound...
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Categories: foul ball, metaphor,
Form: Verse

Subterfuge Me

...There has been invasion of rats false accusations to spam thats been lingering around my circumference too many plotters trying to trap me like Spiderman but can't web me or being devious and plannin...
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Categories: foul ball, confusion,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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