PENNANT FEVER

By Terry Downes

Could this finally be the year
Home fans will have much to cheer
The boys bring home as souvenir
The pennant soaring high?

The wins they just keep piling up
The foe limps home like beaten pup
Joy flows out of coach’s cup
The team knows no fatigue.

Losses few and far between
Only two of last sixteen
Oh it’s such a joyous scene
A baseball player’s dream!

Writers penning lyric prose
Of a club that does disclose
The likelihood it will depose
The reigning champion team.

September games will be here soon
To silence opposition’s rune
Familiar songs the fans will croon
While dreaming of the crown.

Hopes are building day by day
That the pennant’s on its way
None can make it go astray
It soon will be in town.

Then at last the fans will cheer
Miles around will see no tear
Here at last the souvenir:
The pennant soaring high!

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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

June – Postponed!

July – In the Minors

August – Pitchers’ Duel

September – Building Year