Poetry Friday is hosted today by Teaching YoungWriters.
For Poetry Friday -- "Change-up: baseball poems" written by Gene
Fehler with illustrations by Donald Wu.
Fehler
takes baseball fans through a year of the sport beginning with a winter's game with snowballs. The poems, in the voice
of a young player, share the joys and frustrations of winning and losing and
highlight baseball experiences: practice, broken windows, a "catch"
with Gramps who played in the minors and more.
Verses in a variety of forms encompass the baseball experience.
1.
Knuckleball
It
floats.
It dips like a pirate ship
riding on waves that toss it
up
and
down.
Bat in hand,
I wait and wait
and here it comes,
pulled by strings
this way
and that--
where's it at?
Wu
fills in the blanks with smiling children actively engaged in their favorite
sport.
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