POSTPONED!

By Terry Downes

Leaden skies sweep o’er the field
To wetter nature game may yield
The faithful gathered here today
May well not see nine innings play.

The first ups go without a hitch
No long delays between each pitch
The rhythm fast as hurlers try
To play the game with feet still dry.

Around the third it rumbles in
The roaring thunder quite a din
With rain that makes it hard to see
And forces bravest fans to flee.

For ninety minutes it pours down
It soaks the field and all the town
‘Till finally ‘neath umbrella loaned,
The ump declares the game: Postponed!

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Terry Downes is an attorney and retired District Court Clerk/Magistrate who went on to found and direct the MCC Program on Homeland Security, and long served as an adjunct professor at Suffolk Univ. Law School and UMASS-Lowell. He lives in Lowell with his wife Atty. Annie O’Connor.

This is the second in a series of nine poems about baseball (nine, like in nine innings of a game, or nine players on the field, etc.) which will appear on the first Friday of each month through the baseball season. Here are the previously posted poems in this series:

March – Spring Training

April – Opening Day

May – Early Season