Monday, April 27, 2015

The Base Stealer Comments

Rating: 4.5

Poised between going on and back, pulled
Both ways taut like a tightrope-walker,
Fingertips pointing the opposites,
Now bouncing tiptoe like a dropped ball
...
Read full text

Robert Francis
COMMENTS
JDMben 30 August 2022

W Poem

1 1 Reply
qeubiowy 12 October 2021

qcuyiorequycioyqow

4 0 Reply
ur gY SIKE 12 October 2021

UR GAY

7 3 Reply
Ur Gay 10 May 2021

Ur Gay

8 3 Reply
Ur Gay 10 May 2021

Ur Gay

5 3 Reply
Ur Gay 10 May 2021

Ur Gay

3 0 Reply
Ur Gay 10 May 2021

Ur Gay

0 0 Reply
Ur Gay 10 May 2021

Ur Gay

0 0 Reply
mehnaz 06 October 2020

can i know the similes of this poem? plz its for my assingnment

1 2 Reply
ligma 15 February 2021

girl, do better

1 1
mike hawk 20 May 2020

I hate all black people

2 12 Reply
Da 22 February 2021

Bruh that's not very cash money of you

3 1
Ben Dover 04 March 2020

This poem is very homosexual asss

6 6 Reply
kiersten 03 February 2020

it is a simple yet nerve wrecking poem

3 2 Reply
Cejay 17 April 2019

I really don’t like prom because they aren’t like stories but this one. Was terrible

2 5 Reply
falesha 22 May 2018

how interesting ´slurp´

6 1 Reply
Dakota Giddeon 09 November 2017

It was so boring not being rude it was just not interesting.

9 18 Reply
Lantz Pierre 27 January 2017

What a beautiful, evocative rendering of the plight of the baseball player leading off, tempting, teasing, caught in that exhilarating moment during a game that hangs in the air, hoping to steal a base and advance his team's hopes of victory. It rolls it all up and gets my heart beating, just like the real thing. Masterful.

15 19 Reply

Agreed good sir! I truly love this poem

1 5
um ok 24 April 2021

what

5 3
Raymond Farrell 27 April 2015

This certainly puts into words we can all relate to. Good write.

17 14 Reply
Robert Francis

Robert Francis

Pennsylvania / United States
Close
Error Success