Long Southpaw Poems
Long Southpaw Poems. Below are the most popular long Southpaw by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Southpaw poems by poem length and keyword.
Opening Day With a Little DelayOpening Day with a Little Delay
Take me out to the ball game
Of balls and strikes - bloopers and perfect games;
Basket catches, ERA’S, country hardball;
Foul balls, the pick off, intentional walk, the...
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Categories:
southpaw, baseball, celebration, sports,
Form:
Free verse
Convalescence of Richard McGeehanConvalescence of Richard McGeehan
Spouse of my eldest sister
marital bond fixed in place
strong as mortise and tenon,
he hales of hearty Irish stock
genes of said septuagenarian
analogous to pith and marrow
wrought courtesy divine providence.
At present aforementioned brother in...
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Categories:
southpaw, absence, america, appreciation, blessing, caregiving, health, journey,
Form:
Free verse
Your Artistic Interpretations Regaled These Deux Mopic Eyes(otherwise titled psalm to
Amelie Beth by Matthew Scott,
his genuine, gluten free and non GMO
poetic non fake appreciative guise.)
Ah, thee availed me reason to craft
a poem with rhyme or reason,
when I beheld unexpected email
exemplifying Christmas season
triptych...
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Categories:
southpaw, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, corruption,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
GenocideThey're trying to decapitate the hood magistrates,
with fabricated reasons for treasons
It's the season that we evaluate and saturate,
All those who maneuver with a false mind,
Hood occupants are tee'd off like it's golf time,
So your game...
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Categories:
southpaw, abuse, africa, betrayal, black african american, corruption,
Form:
Rhyme
The SouthpawTHE SOUTHPAW
By Roy Merritt
This kid has a helluva arm
The coach he told the scout
And if we could get him
to get it over the plate
He'd strike all the batters out
He can throw it really...
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Categories:
southpaw, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The SouthpawI’m a southpaw,
one of those left-handed,
upside down,
have to curl my arm to write,
backwards individuals,
liv’in-the-left-life
in a right-handed world.
Think It’s easy, e.g.,
being a leftie?
Think again...
we’re out of place at dinners,
have to master backwards scissors,
built specifically for...
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Categories:
southpaw, introspection, poems, poetry, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
Memories of MotherMirthful memories of stitches and axel grease,
Kennel Clubs and snicker doodles.
Memories like colors, collected on an artist’s palette,
Stirred with southpaw patience,
Finding her backward child upright,
On a cycle’s seat; in a hopeful heart.
She sprinkled her son...
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Categories:
southpaw, motherday, care, care, day,
Form:
Free verse
Another FiveTHE ARTIST
An artist from the city of Rangoon
Wanted to paint the crater's of the moon
Packed canvas, brush and paint
Told his wife who did faint
Then he took off in a hot air balloon.
THE SCIENTIST
A...
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Categories:
southpaw, humor,
Form:
Limerick
When It Comes AroundMy thought reek of bloopers
All I see is blue birds
Ever since you left me
Maybe I deserve it
A southpaw has to be used to this
Sleeping in the mud
Reminiscing the dirty games I played
Staring at the dice
you...
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Categories:
southpaw, adventure, anger, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
He Is So CuteWE rush to hospital, to the maternity ward : OUR first GRANDSON.
The SON of MY SON, wrapped up in blue : HE is so CUTE.
Pale blue eyes, a little pug nose, small but certainly HANDSOME.
I...
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Categories:
southpaw, children, son, thank you, visionary, blue, ,
Form:
Free verse
Lord WillingLord willing
I'm gonna get it by any means
Bust my hands up and nights I lose sleep
I'm a get it even if I gotta bleed
Ain't no stopping this locomotive
U gone see
I got the magic potion
Secret...
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Categories:
southpaw, character,
Form:
Free verse
Mirror HorrorMIRROR HORROR
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Is it me I see at all ?
I part my hair on the left every night
He parts his hair on the right,
I am a right-handed breed
But he...
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Categories:
southpaw, funny, hair,
Form:
Couplet
Left Handed BoxersThere has never been a southpaw,
Who has the crushing show made poor;
Each in the ring a carnivore,
His left hook, his wasting death jaw,
Your swollen eyes already a law
Before the last...
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Categories:
southpaw, career, courage, people, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Discipline Works Wonders~ Discipline Works Wonders ~
His parents tied his left arm behind his chair
So their poor little Gary wouldn't dare
To do such a sinister, such an evil thing
As learn to write with his southpaw wing
At school...
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Categories:
southpaw, conflict, parents, satire, teacher,
Form:
Narrative
Forbidden ValentineDisturbed forbidden valentine
you level me and that’s the draw;
I’ll be all yours if you be mine;
Your roughness I wouldn’t refine,
I eat up what’s enticing, raw;
Disturbed forbidden valentine;
Profile’s bent and that’s by design,
left is right...
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Categories:
southpaw, dark, horror, valentines day,
Form:
Villanelle
Homophone HospiceRound Mudville Market, foul air was omnipresent
butchers rent fowls’ necks to make tenant's rent,
the scene that was seen was most unpleasant.
As sunset fell, we watched through evening light,
as Casey mighty Casey held his...
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Categories:
southpaw, baseball, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Tug Mcgraw
Frank Edwin was his real name.
This southpaw went on to garner fame.
With great accomplishments and few regrets,
he became the closer for the New York Mets.
This native of Martinez, California
finished his baseball playing career in Philadelphia.
He...
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Categories:
southpaw, baseball, dedication, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme