As many of you may already know I have a strong love for poetry and plan on one day making my own book. So I am gonna start putting some of my poems up on here to see you you all feel about them, let me know what you think and be honest, criticism is never bad! This poem is one that I wrote in my poetry class that I hated at the start of it but my professor liked it and said he saw good potential in the poem, I revised and edited it so many times and put a lot of work into it that it has grown to be one of my favorites.

Rain Delay

Sitting there amongst friends,

the uncomfortable metal bleachers

don’t matter to us as we relax and enjoy

the baseball game. Out of nowhere

the sky darkens and clouds roll in.

“Please don’t rain” we pray out loud.

Suddenly the rain starts to fall. “Ladies

and gentlemen, due to the rain, the game

will be postponed.” We all empty the stands

into the dry brick building. Twenty minutes

of pouring rain pass, we stand in the dry,

warm, musty building, crammed together

with thousands of people. The heat is

unbearable, going out into the rain is

tempting. After contemplating it we finally

make the move toward the wet parking lot,

stepping out into the rain as the cold water,

rolls down our hot bodies and soaks us.

After a while of dancing in the rain with the

best of friends we take a seat up against the

wall, the rain slowing down still falling on us.

Looking up in the sky we see a rainbow, and

leaning back I hear the question, “Who needs more?”

A second of silence then, “Who needs the game?”