Baseball Poems - Examples of all types of baseball poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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Baseball Innuendo1st base is kissing, non stop.
2nd base, is getting felt up.
3rd base refers to activity in the lower region,
and of course, Home Run equals penetration....
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Categories:
baseball,
Form: Rhyme
Going HomeGoing Home
1.
We gathered all the kids next door to go to Thompson's field and play.
School was out and the sun was too,
We could stay till daylight fades.
But when Jess hit Johnny with his own...
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Categories:
baseball, change, christian, death,
Form: Ballad
Say my Name -- in my Way of KingsImpermanence by O.J. $traight
Inspired by Happy Hurts - Icon for Hire
My blood, my life source
I fear waking up
An atheist.
No atheists in foxholes.
Well I’m in the hole,
The pit,
The depths of despair, the
dead poets...
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Categories:
baseball, abuse, addiction, age, allah,
Form: Free verse
Precision
The sport of golf demands precision
baseball, perfect vision...
Although more popular than them all
~ football’s just collision*
______________________________
...
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Categories:
baseball, football, golf, how
Form: Rubai
Cheery JoyJoy,
Like shouts
Of children
On the playground,
Or the last school day
when the bell rings, "school's out!"
Like a new baby's first cry,
Or your sigh when he sleeps and dreams,
Or the crowd's cheers at your first...
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Categories:
baby, baseball, childhood, joy,
Form: Etheree
Journeys
A baseball glove lies on its back
in a trunk of items
once fresh and youthful
now discarded for
love and marriage
perhaps a stroller
whose blue-eyed
...
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Categories:
baby, baseball, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Don't Say Boo
Categories:
baseball, future, song, sorrow,
Form: Lyric
April 5 Get a sport into a poem Make Baseball Great Again!April 5—Get a sport into a poem!
Make Baseball Great Again!
It is time
to make American baseball
Great again
starting with creating a worldwide
baseball competition
with each season
with the national champions
competing in a World Cup...
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Categories:
america, baseball, softball,
Form: Political Verse
Phenomenon
Fast as you can say ‘Jack Robinson’
Up pops another rookie phenom
But as April heroics fade
to June swoons
...
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Categories:
baseball, change, hero, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Five-inning Quitters
The more other sports change
the more baseball stays the same
Bleeding fans as well as talented players
the ‘national pastime’ needs our prayers
...
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Categories:
baseball, change, proposal,
Form: Couplet
Confidence 1309“With confidence let success be vengeance for all that has happened to you.”
...
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Categories:
baseball,
Form: Acrostic
The Conversation Between the Catcher and the PitcherDiving for the ball,
Balling into a dust-
Orange roll,
The catcher tossed it back to the pitcher
After a ball three, and walked up to him.
The descent of the night's sky
Made the ballfield lights a sudden relevance.
The...
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Categories:
baseball,
Form: Free verse
Butterflies
An MLB pitcher has butterflies
‘til he throws his first pitch
Me, I get ‘em the whole season
for no particular reason
...
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Categories:
anxiety, baseball, butterfly, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
BaseballI 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 up in...
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Categories:
baseball, celebration, games,
Form: Rhyme
The Doctor Said I'm Suffering From 'Bicycle Face'I said I ain't been on no bike
He said, 'Well, there it is.'
Premature baldness and popcorn muscles
I told him I got a B in History
He said, 'What a life you're gonna have.'
This is what I'm...
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Categories:
baseball, boxing day ,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Baseball Poems
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