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Best League Poems

Below are the all-time best League poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of league poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Out of My League
Who coined this term?
Who decided to limit one’s spirit?
Who decided to deprecate those qualities that remain hidden?

Out of my league…
What is the measure?
Who created the...

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Categories: league, identity, image, self, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Major League Baseball
Opening Day
will be coming soon
who are you rooting for?...

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Categories: league, baseball,
Form: Questionku
Premium Member Out of My League
She’s so out of my league.
She’s just so out of my league.
So many guys want her-
Who’d consider any other?
Seems no one can have her.
She’s just...

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Categories: league, anxiety, beautiful, confidence, crush,
Form: Lyric

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Little League
He looked so darned small at the plate
For the pitch he just couldn't wait
Got a high fast ball
He swung for the wall
You'r out! But to...

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Categories: league, childhood, sports
Form: Limerick
Minor League Hockey Sonnet
Small city arena long out of date,
that is where this B-league team plays their games,
young men learning, hopes for fortune and fame.
I watch the practice,...

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Categories: league, appreciation, fun, hockey, imagery,
Form: Sonnet
Peanut League
By some stroke of luck or justice all the kids who were chosen last, mercilessly teased through the years or simply were too fat or...

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Categories: league, baseball, children,
Form: Haibun



Major League Hard Knocks
Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson are gone
Major League Baseball locked the door with them
now with PEDs ban should be withdrawn
today’s drug use has darken...

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Categories: league, sports, baseball, drug,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Legend of Nolan Ryan Major League Baseballs Strike Out King
It's not easy becoming a Legendary  
Major League Baseball pitcher.
It never was and will never be.
You get put through the wringer
and hung out to...

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Categories: league, baseball, character, culture, identity,
Form: Free verse
Justice League Is Major
Sure i hit hard, always shining like a star, i carry more pain than any man
I'm half metal, I'm prt metal too ever since I...

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Categories: league, metaphor, patriotic, political, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Human League
The 80's electronic band
The Human League
Came from Sheffield England
My home town
Phil Oakey
The lead singer
Had his hair short on one side
The over long hanging down.

He met...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: league, celebrity, dance, music,
Form: Free verse
Little League
One, two, three strikes your out
Playing our rivals, another epic bout

The stress of playing inning after inning
Sweaty hands and butterflies are all beginning

It's the start...

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© Abe Lopez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: league, sports
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Out of My League
Creative, intelligent, some would say wise.
Beautiful with a personality twice her size.
She’d never give me a second look,
I’d just as soon sit here and read...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: league, beautiful, crush, dream, relationship,
Form: Limerick
'the Girl That Was Way Out of My League'
buttermilk biscuits rise in the oven
scrambles eggs are frying
the hominy grits is bubblin'
the french vanilla coffee is perculating
the plates and the silverware are clanking
you say...

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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: league, beautiful, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Super League
Clandestine meetings behind
closed doors

A Super League discussed

Not for the love of the game

Or even consultation taking the supporters or fan's or even
the actual player's views...

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Categories: league, anger,
Form: Free verse
In League With Others
I am in league with the roses,
Petals askew in a scarlet conspiracy

Oh I am in league with the roses,
Swaying along in this lover’s confederacy;

I’m in...

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Categories: league, hope, imagination, introspection, on
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry