There are 139 Poems about Sports & Outdoor Activities

Watching dan-
-cers on skates
By Lorine Niedecker

a 340 dollar horse and a hundred dollar whore
By Charles Bukowski

A Ballad of Baseball Burdens
By Franklin Pierce Adams

A Country Boy in Winter
By Sarah Orne Jewett

A Good Fish
By Derek Sheffield

A Gothic Tale
By Theodore Weiss

A Lay of the Links
By Arthur Conan Doyle

A Mad Fight Song for William S. Carpenter, 1966
By James Wright

A Poem about Baseballs
By Denis Johnson

Actaeon
By A.E. Stallings

Against Nature
By Richard Emil Braun

Alameda Street
By Douglas Kearney

Alone, Drinking With the Tickfaw River
By Alison Pelegrin

Amoretti LXVII: Like as a Huntsman
By Edmund Spenser

Analysis of Baseball
By May Swenson

Astrophel and Stella XLI
By Philip Sidney

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
By James Wright

Aviation
By Alice Fulton

Baby Villon
By Philip Levine

Baseball
By Gail Mazur

Baseball and Classicism
By Tom Clark

Baseball’s Sad Lexicon
By Franklin Pierce Adams

Belle Isle, 1949
By Philip Levine

Between Assasinations
By Alan Shapiro

Brother and Sister
By George Eliot

Buckroe, After the Season, 1942
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

Bungee Jumping
By William H. Dickey

Burning Drift-Wood
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Casey at the Bat
By Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Child on the Marsh
By Andrew Hudgins

Clothespins
By Stuart Dybek

Corinna's Going a-Maying
By Robert Herrick

Courtesy
By David Ferry

Dragonflies Mating
By Robert Hass

Drunks in the Bass Boat
By David Bottoms

Dunk!
By Gregory K. Pincus

Ephemera
By Robin Becker

Evening Practice
By D. Nurkse

Ex-Basketball Player
By John Updike

Explorers Cry Out Unheard
By Marie Ponsot

Fall River
By David Rivard

Fast Break
By Edward Hirsch

February
By Margaret Atwood

Fishing
By A.E. Stallings

Flounder
By Natasha Trethewey

Forest Children
By Colette Inez

From the Wave
By Thom Gunn

Glanmore Sonnets
By Seamus Heaney

Go Ahead, Seaver
By Phil Rizzuto

Gwine to Run All Night, or De Camptown Races
By Stephen C. Foster

Hunting Manual
By Eleanor Wilner

Hunting, Hazards, and Holiness
By Henry Carlile

Hysteria
By Dionisio D. Martinez

Ice
By Gail Mazur

In
By Andrew Hudgins

In the Deep Channel
By William E. Stafford

In the Mushroom Summer
By David Mason

Influence of Natural Objects in Calling Forth and Strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth
By William Wordsworth

Juggling Jerry
By George Meredith

Learning the Bicycle
By Wyatt Prunty

Losing the Game
By Diane Ackerman

Love in the Valley
By George Meredith

Machines
By Michael Donaghy

Manifest
By Reginald Shepherd

Map
By Atsuro Riley

Marathon
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Meditation at Fifty Yards, Moving Target
By Rita Dove

Middle-Aged Midwesterner at Waikiki Again
By John Logan

Mowing
By Robert Wrigley

My Autumn Leaves
By Bruce Weigl

My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun (764)
By Emily Dickinson

Narrative: Ali
By Elizabeth Alexander

Old Men Playing Basketball
By B. H. Fairchild

On Hurricane Jackson
By Alan Dugan

On Munsungun
By Ethan Stebbins

On Quitting
By Edgar Albert Guest

Once the Dream Begins
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Once, Driving West of Billings, Montana
By Susan Mitchell

One Possible Meaning
By Charlie Smith

Our Motorbike
By Elfriede Jelinek

Oxford Stroud Recollects Fishing with Electricity
By R. T. Smith

Primitive Road
By Lucas Howell

Quaker Meeting, The Sixties
By Robin Becker

Radio
By Tom Clark

Raking
By Tania Rochelle

Saguaro
By Brenda Hillman

Sand Flesh and Sky
By Clarence Major

Saturn
By Cynthia Zarin

Shore Scene
By John Logan

Slam, Dunk, & Hook
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Snowflake
By William Baer

from Stops Along the Western Bank of the Missouri River: Of the River Itself
By Michael Anania

Sweat
By Miguel Hernández

Swordfish
By Andrew Hudgins

Tao in the Yankee Stadium Bleachers
By John Updike

Tent Caterpillars
By Susan Mitchell

The Arrow and the Song
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Barefoot Boy
By John Greenleaf Whittier

The Beach in August
By Weldon Kees

The Bear
By Galway Kinnell

The Bear Hunt
By Abraham Lincoln

The Book of the Deer, the Bear and the Elk
By Henry Carlile

The Cave
By Michael Collier

The circle game
By Margaret Atwood

The crowd at the ball game
By William Carlos Williams

The Ditch
By Michael Ryan

The Diving Apprentices
By Christopher Middleton

The Dying Hunter to his Dog
By Susanna Moodie

The Exile
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field
By Richard F. Hugo

The Lay for the Troubled Golfer
By Edgar Albert Guest

The Old Swimmin' Hole
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Principles of Concealment
By David Wagoner

The Racer’s Widow
By Louise Glück

The Runners
By Irving Feldman

The Seekonk Woods
By Galway Kinnell

The Seventh Inning
By Donald Hall

The Strange People
By Louise Erdrich

The Unsung Song of Harry Duffy
By G. E. Murray

The Wounded Bullfighter
By Clarence Major

The Yellowhammer's Nest
By John Clare

There was an Old Person of Nice
By Edward Lear

To an Athlete Dying Young
By A. E. Housman

To Bessie Drennan
By Mark Doty

To Fishermen
By Carol Frost

To the Returned Girls
By Franklin Pierce Adams

Urban Renewal XVIII.
By Major Jackson

Vacant Lot
By Dudley Randall

Vietnam
By Michael Collier

Vitamins and Roughage
By Kenneth Rexroth

Walking
By Thomas Traherne

Washington Square
By Frederick Morgan

Waterwings
By Cathy Song

When in Wisconsin Where I Once Had Time
By John Engels

Where the Blue Begins
By George Bradley

Why I Might Go to the Next Football Game
By Denis Johnson

Woods Burial
By John Peck

Woodstock
By Peter Balakian

Yesterday
By Edgar Albert Guest