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Umpires Poems - Poems about Umpires

Premium MemberBaseball In Heaven

...This is the story of two all-time great baseball pitchers who are both in the Hall-of-Fame. So, the story goes like this. Last week the old-timers both well into their nineties, were out together at ...
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Categories: umpires, baseball, friendship, heaven,
Form: Haibun

Premium MemberCity Life Circa 1957

...City life, for kids, before the onslaught of helicopter parents and mandatory parental involvement in every aspect of growing up.  We played baseball, no umpires, the bases pieces of cardboard, scrat...
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Categories: umpires, baseball, growing up,
Form: Prose



Another Nonsensical Tale

..."Balls!" said the umpires
"Strike!" yelled the pins
"Take that!" cried the little girl
who kicked both my shins

And when the green penguin 
started dancing a jig
I realized it was high time
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Categories: umpires, fun, humorous, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme

Nightfall

...Time races as the “sun sets” into its bin,
An everyday “sinking spell” and a *sight that umpires* for our alibi,
The moon gradually stealthily comes out If its bag,
“Sombre shades” permeate the lu...
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Categories: umpires, nature, night,
Form: Verse

Premium Member'diamond' Health News

...1.
life is good (I think?) -
I’m able to move one bite
from home plate to mouth

2.
“first base’s” great goal
but “second,” “third,” feels better –
a “home run’s” too quick

3.
a “base hit...
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Categories: umpires, baseball, health,
Form: Haiku



Premium MemberHappy Mother's Day 2022

...I remember my mom having a collection of hats she stored under her bed.
For any occasion that could arise…she had a hat to set atop her head.

Moms of today are different…often they go out with th...
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Categories: umpires, mothers day,
Form: Rhyme

Wagering As Pascal

...I
Does morality need some religion?
Does humanity need Creator, Creation?
If I'm good even when I'm bad
Morality and religion we must have
As with government, as with queens, king -
Humans need...
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Categories: umpires, analogy, bible, community, evil,
Form: Rhyme

Game of Cricket Is a Game of Life

...Life is not cricket: though a game of cricket reflects life 
It portrays real-life conditions; from cradle to urn 
Starting with toss of a coin; ends in pulling bails off
Just as cricket life is s...
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Categories: umpires, dedication, emotions, endurance, fantasy,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberCaptain Courageous

...april starts   clocks forward spring
practice in full swing
nets untangled from their poles
players to contact & enroll
gang mowers greased&oiled
kit-bag dis-embroiled
grass-stained pads   whit...
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Categories: umpires, nostalgia, sports, tribute,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberUnfairness

...Ultra-conservative
undertaker umpires
upperclassmen unit;
Unique undergrads used
Unceremonious
Underhanded unions--
Uncooperative!

THIRD PLACE WINNER
Written April 30, 2021...
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Categories: umpires, humor, word play,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberExchange Rate

...( depiction of our hoochie heroine being 
        nailed by a stranger on his car) 

Branches warp inward where image reflects
Winscreen mangles trees in curved convex
Numbed halt of midday awai...
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Categories: umpires, adventure, day, education, woman,
Form: Narrative

Sweat More To Sweat

...Ball,Bat and wicket
Three making thrill cricket

Ballers,Batsmen and Umpires
To differ to defend in all affairs

Batsman to sweat more to shine
Shining ball for the baller to shine

Saliva a...
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Categories: umpires, games,
Form: Rhyme

Cricket World Cup

...https://youtu.be/A7NzFzy7_NE
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Cricket no...
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Categories: umpires, celebration, destiny, faith, fate,
Form: Heroic Couplet

The Reedybrook Ashes

...Each year in August the teams descend, cricket foe morphing quickly to friend,
Bonds are forged on a pitch unique, camped on the banks of Reedybrook creek. 
The grass is cut, the fields set out, th...
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Categories: umpires, friendship, fun,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberI See God and His Majesty

...I see God by faith, in His majesty 
revealing His blessings for mankind
with His awesome dawn-wonders:
 
Azure-accentuated ambiance awaits aspiring artists
Baby’s birth brings b...
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Categories: umpires, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Abecedarian

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