Spring and Baseball and Poetry

National Public Radio--only one of my addictions--has had a few poetry features I want to share.

On Saturday, March 31, there was a story about baseball haikus. The interviewed poet said baseball is perfectly matched to the haiku form, and they read a few delightful baseball haikus.
Here's a link:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9264826

And this weekend's "A Prairie Home Companion," was the annual spring poetry contest, with lots of poems about spring by poets like us.... Here's a link to the lyrics: http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/features/lyrics/ . My favs are "For Millicent and Giovanni, who are going to need a bed" and "Bribe."

If you have time, give them a read or listen, and then...why not write your own spring poem or baseball haiku and post it here?

Also, Garrison Kellior, the host of A Prairie Home Companion, has a daily radio feature called "The Writer's Almanac" on which he reads a poem each day. You can access it online or have it delivered (in a newsletter format) to your email box daily (for free).

Here's a link: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/. To subscribe to the newsletter, go to the upper right corner.

And here's my attempt at a baseball haiku. This is to commemorate many poetic (soft)ball games of my childhood played in our front yard:

The cherry tree is
second base. The dog runs off
with the ball again.


--Jenny