The Long Dark Night is Ending
For baseball fans, can there be any words sweeter than these: “pitchers and catcher report”?
Spring training means hope and the end of darkness. It means that long afternoons and warm nights will come again. It means that even this, the longest and coldest winters in memory, will soon pass. Baseball is about to begin!
In honor of the unofficial end of winter and the beginning of spring– in Florida and Arizona at least– MontanaWriter is pleased to feature a number of baseball haiku.
Baseball and haiku are a perfect match. Both are deceptively simple… yet for anyone who has tried their hand at baseball or writing haiku it is quickly clear that they are both difficult undertakings. Both are games of numbers. Both require patience, attention, and a mindfulness. And both are rooted in the pastoral. And most of all, both are enjoyable.
Today’s baseball haikus were written by baseball aficionado, Jared Linsly. Jerry is a regular reader and commenter to MontanaWriter and our “go-to guy” for all things baseball.
Enjoy!
Selected Baseball Haiku, by Jared Linsly
Mid-February
Pitchers, catchers report now
Life reverts to youth
Rejuvenation!
Winter’s melancholy gone
Spring Training is here!
Ball strikes bat and glove
Grills and grass release their scents
Pastime lures faithful
Crowd noise from bleachers
Swells as hurler makes his stretch
Lingering suspense
Ball hurtling home
Batter coils expectantly
Explosion unleashed
Enough of Winter!
Beisbol numero uno!
Hot Stove burns brightly
Two-Thousand-Ten gone
Twins need to bolster mound corps
Spring Training impends
New season is nigh
White Sox have tossed the gauntlet
Twins need clutch offense