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Willie Mays Poems - Poems about Willie Mays


Farewell to 2024
...An American perspective on domestic and world events, in no particular order SCOTUS rules that Trump’s immune China flies the spy balloon Starship booster landing glee J. Assange is walking fre......

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Categories: willie mays, humanity, new year, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Willie Mays and All Our Praise
...Had given Willie all of our praise; To see great plays would watch Mays; Out in field, we did find him roam; A baseball field was friendly home. To play baseball always did love; Caught fabulo......

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Categories: willie mays, anxiety, baseball,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Play Ball
...I have attempted to capture my favorite major league baseball players in this little shape poem of home plate. Included are (in no particular order): Say Hey Willie Mays Wal......

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Categories: willie mays, baseball,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Baseball By the Numbers
...Some numbers tumble down the hallowed halls of baseball’s past - a sport of numbers after all, these memories hold fast. Stan Musial wore #6, Lou Gehrig, #4; the “luckiest man in all the earth”, g......

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Categories: willie mays, baseball,
Form: Rhyme
Willie Mccovey
...Willie McCovey Baseball great Baseball glory gone Hank Aaron Home run king Passing by Babe Ruth Say hey Willie Mays Basket catch Superstar Micky Mantle plays Baseball world Roger Mar......

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Categories: willie mays, baseball,
Form: Free verse



He Was the Man
...Nineteen sixty was a wonderful year Willie Mays was brought to Candlestick Park It left New Yorkers with more than one tear But San Franciscans remember that mark I rushed to the park to catch ......

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Categories: willie mays, baseball,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Baseball Glitter
...The sport of ball games is many each summer and each fall. Within the Major leagues, and the Minors are many whines. The events that are pitted causes Peewees to bawl. Excuses like pines ......

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Categories: willie mays, introspection, time,
Form: Quatrain
Amid Chaos
...Your garden is filled with bunnies – I see them hopping around like this …. Oh, I have been fighting those things for so long; my husband thinks that I’m crazy. I’m kicking against the resistan......

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Categories: willie mays, history, life, time,
Form: Narrative
When Baseball Was King
...On our black and white TV, we sat engrossed, Chris and me. He was six and I was three, the Yanks were on a winning spree. Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Whitey Ford, those were the days, Vida Bl......

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Categories: willie mays, childhood, nostalgia, sports
Form: Rhyme
Nineteen-Fifty-Two
...I wish things were the same now, as then, I wish I was there, Instead of here. In Nineteen-Fifty-Two, things were simple, and so care free, you always had somethng to do. You could see a mo......

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Categories: willie mays, nostalgia
Form: Rhyme

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