The Yankees- Robert Lord Keyes

The Yankees are in spring training
down in Florida.
I can feel them everyday
cracking their bats on anvils
with each warmer sunrise.

The Yankees pound quarters
out of the moon.
The Yankees knock birds out of trees
by the millions.
I can listen to them
chewing up the college squads
and minor leaguers
like wolves on a deer.
It is a thing to hear.

The snow
listens so hard it vanishes.
The pastures
clear themselves of everything
but wind.
The ponds collapse,
the ground moves.

The Yankees are heading north.

COURTESY OF http://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/po_yanks.shtml

RESPONSE: The Yankees are my favorite baseball team which is why I chose this poem. This poem talks about the Yankees in spring training. It also talks about how good the Yankees are like where it said : "I can listen to them chewing up the college squads and minor leaguers like wolves on a deer." This poem is also using the figurative language, simile, in that same sentence. Robert Lord Keues was very creative in this poem.