Saturday, April 20, 2013

Green


Nine go out today to protect
our emerald diamond,
the commons,
home,
from visitors who
menace,
swinging clubs
cut and hardened from
green forests
of ash.

They'll try to
run us out of
our home,
taking the field to
own our turf.
We'll slap
some leather and
keep them from
advancing until
we go on the
attack,

hoping to breathe
the raw intoxication of
a spring victory.

©Eusebeia Philos 2013

Written for dVerse Poets Pub ~ Poetics - SpRinG hosted by Claudia

9 comments:

  1. I am not a sports fan by any means but I have many friends who wait all year for the baseball season. It's like Christmas for them! Nicely done.

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  2. another non sporting person but love the feeling in the arc of challenge and victory

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  3. I can certainly understand that lure of spring - but I still keep far away.

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  4. very cool...never went to a baseball game...we're more into soccer over here...one day i will though...smiles

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  5. I miss my Blue Jays now! Its great knowing all the different things people associate with Spring, I never looked at Baseball that way before.

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  6. Ah, the boys of summer! We have a professional team here, but I am more into football at this point. I keep TRYING to recapture the interest in baseball I had when I was a kid.

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  7. Lovely poem... I especially like the powerful ending.

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  8. Here comes the sports fans ~ I too like the last verse ~ Happy spring day ~

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  9. This makes me want to go play baseball!

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