Baseball Poetry

Dedicated to the writing of those invited to participate in a baseball poetry project. Those invited were asked to 1) go to a baseball game, any game and 2) create a poem, in any shape or form about that particular game or some memory of baseball, for the purpose of developing a collection. Most baseball poetry collections are ones culled from the works of famous poets; this one is designed to be more democratic, inviting some established poets and others moved to write baseball poems.

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Repeat - for Dean

Amber McNeil

Bases loaded
Bottom of the 6th
Two outs
Down by 1

Pitcher and Infield exchange
smirks and high-fives

#3 up to the plate

Shortstop screams,
“We got a hitter!” and in one
motion the team takes

three
steps
back.

1 practice swing
2 practice swings

Mom yells,
“You got this buddy!”

She sees a dimple.
She shows a dimple.

Crowd hears, “CRACK!”

1
2
3
Runs
Batted
In

Ball still in play

#3 out at 3rd

No Grand Slam
but
A title defended

posted by AmberLea @ 12:01 PM  

2 Comments:

  • At 5:36 AM, Blogger David Schaafsma said…

    I like this mother's poem (our second so far!), especially that dimple part, maybe, but it's also nice to see a little baseball, damn it, in a baseball poetry blog! :) Been there, wish I could do it again, though never winning like that, never did that, really, like that. Dean will go on to even greater things.

    Ball still "in play"? (Instead of playing)

    The numbers make it fun to look at, too. Way to go for posting this, finally, Amber!

     

  • At 3:01 PM, Blogger Shara said…

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