Baseball Haiku

tallguy · Post by **tallguy** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:38 am

Louisville Slugger
the boy's fingertips caress
the trademark

- Lee Gurga

Post by **Baseball=Life** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:06 pm

Your nuts
Swollen / Festering in Pain
My line drive base hit

tallguy · Post by **tallguy** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:10 pm

Excellent work, more please!

tallguy · Post by **tallguy** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 2:59 pm

Variation on a theme by Scott Leathers:

Late summer game
fly ball lost in the sun
fallen tooth

AntMoOAK · Post by **AntMoOAK** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 6:49 pm

I wish I were rich
Park Baseball I sorely miss
White ball green grass soon

tallguy · Post by **tallguy** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 12:39 pm

foul ball lands
in an empty seat
spring training

- based on a haiku by Tom Painting

Post by **Baseball=Life** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:01 pm

Man on Third
Mere Single Ties It up
Choking in the 9th

(that last one was dedicated to myself after having choked with the tying run on 3rd, and lead run on 2nd yesterday. I flew out to CF, when all that was needed was even an infield single.)

tallguy · Post by **tallguy** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:27 am

Bottom of the 8th
eight determined drunks
get the wave going

- Tom Clausen

tallguy · Post by **tallguy** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:49 pm

October revival
all hands lift
to the foul ball

- Jim Kacian

tallguy · Post by **tallguy** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:17 pm

Rainy night
a hole in the radio
where a ballgame should be

- Ed Markowski

(I was off yesterday which is why I didn't post, in case you all desperately missed your daily fix of baseball culture...)

Post by **gohlkus** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:58 am

nourishing raindrops
soak land in california
but, damn, no baseball

- Jason Gohlke

I've always thought 5-7-5 was an immutable rule.

And here I wanted to play this week. I'm awake on time and everything. Ah well.

Paul, what's going on with Oregon?

tallguy · Post by **tallguy** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:18 pm

bases loaded
the rookie pitcher
blows a bubble

- Ed Markowski

tallguy · Post by **tallguy** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 3:27 pm

opening day
green of the field
through the ticket gates

- Randy Brooks

Southpaw Slim · Post by **Southpaw Slim** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:32 pm

Nice posts, Paul, but do any of those actually conform to the requirements of a haiku?

tallguy · Post by **tallguy** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:54 pm

Sigh. Didn't I already go over this?

All of them do, since the only real requirement is three short lines. The number of syllables thing is not considered to be a real rule in Haiku written in English, only those in Japanese.

With that extra freedom in mind, perhaps you'd like to post some of your own compositions, Nick?