<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577812" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Poetry of Baseball</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grip the words firmly in your glove<br>Feel the stitching with your hand<br>Now suck in the pitched air<br>Focus on the space</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Between the catcher and the plate</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>There is a shape of space<br>You must curve or slide or hurl<br>Emotion packed pitch of verb<br>Rhythm and control</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rock back and throw your leg<br>Feel the muscle of meaning<br>Unwind<br>As you trace a line through space<br>And connect with a place and time</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Timing is everything.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Emotion, execution<br>You bridge the gap<br>You give the batter heat <br>With a singing snap</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And feel the rightness of the pitch</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The batter anticipates<br>You hear<br> Mountain ash smacking leather<br>The sweet spot meeting </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the afternoon has meaning</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hits runs innings outs<br>mark the passage of time<br>Walks bunts runs slides<br>Syntax for reaching home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Diamonds of green, players and team<br>Nostalgia for the order of rhyme.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Baseball season, figurative reason</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Picture of<br>Order and control<br>The legacy, the legends<br>The practiced ebb and flow</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Epic age- old patterns<br>Every poet yearns to know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Suxanne+Popp">Suxanne Popp</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577812" data-title="The Poetry of Baseball de Suxanne Popp" data-description="Grip the words firmly in your glove Feel the stitching with your hand Now suck in the pitched air Focus on the space Between the catcher and the plate There is a shape of space You must curve or slide or hurl Emotion packed pitch of verb Rhythm..."></div> </div> </div>

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