Long Step up to the plate Poems
Long Step up to the plate Poems. Below are the most popular long Step up to the plate by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Step up to the plate poems by poem length and keyword.
A Progressive ShadowA Progressive Shadow
A series of real challenges and troubling world events
In our twenty-first century give us a definite reason and
An urgency to pause and reflect on mankind’s situation.
Our world today—more than at any other...
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, change, earth, history, international, introspection, nature, war,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Father I Never HadMy childhood dream was to make the little league team. The thing that almost held me back were the kids that would look at me and laugh, because I was the only one there without...
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, absence, character, childhood, emotions, father daughter, father
Form:
Rhyme
New marching orders issued from comandante Bergen meisterNew marching orders issued from comandante Bergen meister
After proper manager
distributed the latest bulletin
to all the residents at Highland Manor,
plus wrinkled her nose at noxious odor
(explained at length below)
purportedly emanating from unit B44,
we (myself and...
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, absence, abuse, anger, anxiety, crush, environment, mental
Form:
Free verse
We Can Do More: To Fight That Sin Called GreedThe economic injustice, the social injustice has made the workers upset
when the corporations and their CEOs treat them with little or no respect
the CEOs make more in one day than in a year of what...
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, dedication, hope, inspirational, political, social, worktime, sin,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Break the Cycle of Guilthave you ever done something in the past
and the guilty feelings today still last?
do you wish that you could just turn back time?
replay your actions and rewrite your lines?
for guilt is a burden that...
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, angst, depression, faith, forgiveness, hope, inspirational, philosophy,
Form:
Didactic
Afghan GloryA poem by John Nesbitt © 22.11.2013
I was eighteen years old and wanting to fight
I found what I looked for, in bars late at night
I took on the big guys,...
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, betrayal, conflict, death of a friend, grief,
Form:
ABC
A ConversationOn entering the afterlife, to be met by my father.
(Hopefully a long way off)
> Hello Dad, it has been many a year
< Not for me, time has no meaning here
...
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, father,
Form:
Rhyme
What Are We Waiting Forwhere are the voices of the churches in the midst of this economic uncertainty?
where are the spiritual leaders the moral compass of society?
it seems that since the Rev. Dr. M.L. King died so has the...
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, black african american, faith, history, inspirational, politicalclass,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
I Am That IambIn the Beginning was the Word
Just a sound really
A somber echo into the abyss
that kickstarted the whole universe
(was the noise beautiful? was it ugly?
who's to say for sure...
...it was the First)
But it did its job
It...
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, angst, bereavement, christian, confusion, extended metaphor, faith,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Nothing You Can'T DoEveryday when his dad came home he was waiting there
This was the special time that his dad always had to share
He taught him to throw and to catch how to swing his bat
Every game he...
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, hope, inspirational, life, loss, sportsdad, career, dad,
Form:
Couplet
No More PretendingStop pretending
That everything's alright
Like nothing happened
Liek it didn't occur.
Stop pretending
That you can't see the damage
Caused by your ignorance
While you slept your life away.
Stop pretending
That everything's stable
In actuality its begun to crumble
Chopping down our family tree
As...
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, abuse, anger, angst, anxiety, emotions, family, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Father's DayWhat does Father’s Day mean to you, sons and daughters? I was raised without a father. I don’t know how it feels to have a father, like so many children in America and around the...
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, father, father daughter, fathers day,
Form:
Narrative
A Long RideSoft hair Smooth skin Nice teeth Enticing
Knowing what good fortunes all these would bring
Soft hands Smooth face ...
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, black african american, life, life, nice, life,
Form:
I do not know?
Dead-Beat FathersFirst of all, I'm getting so sick and tired of these men impregnating these women and not
taking care of their children. These men had become a bunch of dead-beat dads since their
children have been born....
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, epicchildren, care, men, women, america, care, children,
Form:
Epic
Let Compassion Step Up To the PlateThe gospel episode of the Good Samaritan
mirrors the soul of the person replete with compassion;
although animosity has shaped the racial slur
between Jews and Samaritans ; like a clash of the titans.
That...
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, faith, hope, inspirational, work,
Form:
Pastoral
Simply Move AlongIt takes a lot of courage
for a man to ask you out
It takes a lot of courage
and our heart goes on the line
yet do not drag your feet my friend
but take a leap of...
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, abuse, anger, change,
Form:
Rhyme
Getting An 'A' In LoveWell I’m seventy-six, but in love, I still feel
Like a sixteen-year-old (whole ‘permission to learn’ bit!)
I sit on the left! Sigh! Dad’s far to my right!
But it’s me in the driver’s seat! God, it’s surreal,
For...
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Freed VerseAs a poet who likes to make things rhyme,
It has been a mystery to me why some prefer "Free Verse".
I rarely, if ever at all, understand how to write in that style.
Perhaps, that is why...
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, analogy, confidence, conflict, feelings, identity, metaphor, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Be the InfluenceRise up from your slumber sleep,
No more will any of our children weep.
We will no longer sit idly by,
We will arise and do more than just try.
Our children will be men and women of worth,
Our...
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, beautiful, care, change, children, courage, future, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
This Is Your WorldThis is your world
Your day and
Your time
It's all right there
For the taking
Go for the win
Drain the clock
Drain the shot
Cut down the nets
The dedication
To the craft you've been
Mastering
For so many days that
You expect to...
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, dedication, devotion, dream, hope, sports, strength, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Child SupportChild support is a court-ordered rule that makes both the mother and the father pay until
his or her 18th birthday. It seems that when the mother gets full custody of the child or
children, then the...
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, epicchildren, child, father, women, child, children, father,
Form:
Epic
Communion and Commitmentsupper is served by our Savior so that all who wish to dine
can do a self-examination as they partake of the bread and the wine
we've been invited by Jesus the Christ to convene on a...
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, dedication, faith, hope, inspirational, passionjesus,
Form:
Didactic
The RealityThe Reality
As I look around, all I see is that
A storm has struck the ground;
And it's causing havoc all around.
Major issues within our country,
Like the officers that were meant to protect...
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, black african american, poetry, prejudice, racism, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Why Vote?why are our tax dollars being spent on crippled
and paralyzed drug hoods?
why are we supporting teenage girl having babies
and not trying to do any good?
how Is It possible for foreigners
to get supplemental security...
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, introspection, life, philosophy, social, voice, political, social,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Wasting TimeDays fly by
We've created our own version of time
Foggy memories seep through our brains
Been known the definition of insane
But still playing the same old game
Just because reality is sometimes too lame
Problems just seem to appear
An...
Read More
Categories:
step up to the plate, devotion, future, growth, i love you, passion,
Form:
Rhyme