Dream of a Baseball Star Poem by Gregory Corso

Dream of a Baseball Star

Rating: 4.6


I dreamed Ted Williams
leaning at night
against the Eiffel Tower, weeping.

He was in uniform
and his bat lay at his feet
- knotted and twiggy.

'Randall Jarrell says you're a poet! ' I cried.
'So do I! I say you're a poet! '

He picked up his bat with blown hands;
stood there astraddle as he would in the batter's box,
and laughed! flinging his schoolboy wrath
toward some invisible pitcher's mound
- waiting the pitch all the way from heaven.

It came; hundreds came! all afire!
He swung and swung and swung and connected not one
sinker curve hook or right-down-the middle.
A hundred strikes!
The umpire dressed in strange attire
thundered his judgment: YOU'RE OUT!
And the phantom crowd's horrific boo
dispersed the gargoyles from Notre Dame.

And I screamed in my dream:
God! throw thy merciful pitch!
Herald the crack of bats!
Hooray the sharp liner to left!
Yea the double, the triple!
Hosannah the home run!

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Kumarmani Mahakul 07 June 2019

And I screamed in my dream: God! throw thy merciful pitch! Herald the crack of bats! Hooray the sharp liner to left! Yea the double, the triple! Hosannah the home run! ......touching expression with nice theme. Beautiful poem. Thanks and congratulations chosen as the modern poem of the poem of the day.

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Mahtab Bangalee 07 June 2019

let the solace come as the reviving stone.....//

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Dr Antony Theodore 07 June 2019

And I screamed in my dream: God! throw thy merciful pitch! Herald the crack of bats! Hooray the sharp liner to left! excitement pictured well. tony

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Michael Walker 30 September 2019

It's a novel idea to imagine Randall Jarrell as a baseball star. A dream-like poem, one that I like.

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Dominic Windram 07 June 2020

Magnificently surreal free verse poem courtesy of the idiosyncratic Beat poet Gregory Corso.It's a 10 from me!

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Khairul Ahsan 08 June 2020

Heartiest congratulations on your poem being chosen as the 'Modern Poem Of The Day'! 'It came; hundreds came! all afire! ' - Loved the expression.

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michael walker 07 June 2020

The imaginative fantasy poem shows significant love of baseball. 'Is it better to be a poet or a baseball star? ' is the question asked.

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Chinedu Dike 07 June 2020

Beautiful poem nicely put together........ Thanks for sharing.

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Dr Antony Theodore 07 June 2020

And I screamed in my dream: God! throw thy merciful pitch! Herald the crack of bats! Hisanna, very fine poem. tony

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Mahtab Bangalee 07 June 2020

in dream on godly pitch the double, the triple the home run.............Baseball star in dream pitch

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Gregory Corso

Gregory Corso

New York City, New York
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