Best Basketball Poems

If I were in charge of the world
I'd cancel oatmeal,
Monday mornings,
Allergy shots, and also Sara Steinberg.
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Fathers hold you when you have bad dreams
And they comfort you when all is lost it seems.
Fathers teach you to dribble a basketball and shoot a free throw
And they lead you as you grow.
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to my aunt blanche
who rolled from grass to driveway
into the street one sunday morning.
i was ten. i had never seen
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I saw a lonely cloud one day.
It looked small beyond the Bay.
I tried to find a second and failed,
even though I looked each way.
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No - I did not take a nap -
The nap - took - me
off the bed and out the window
far beyond the sea,
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Kicking a small piece of broken earthen pot,
While playing on the roadside, hop scotch.
Or dribbling a ball and throwing it at a team mate.
Screaming as I fell, skidding on the roller skates.
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You can take your golf and the rolling greens
You tennis with manicured courts neat and clean
Your soccer, your swimming, your basketball scene -
None measure up to............FOOTBALL!
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If you danced from midnight
to six A.M. who would understand?
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tenth in the sprint
ninth in the four hundred
eighth in the cross-country
seventh in the potato race
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I'll tell you a crime story that you've never heard,
But first you'll have to promise to not spread the word.
It started many years ago on the Massachusetts coast.
Most of those who know of it are now themselves ghosts.
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He came from Kerala,
A state of king and Cinderella.
A place of bound,
Where more coconut are found.
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he gets hi to make his friends think hes cool
but all he end up doing is looking like a fool
he trys so hard to fit in with everyone else
but all he needs to do is focus on himself
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There are so many things
To do which I would like
I would love to go cycling
But that’s after dad buys me a bike
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GOD MADE STEAK
GOD MADE SNAKES
GOD YOU MADE ALOT OF MISTAKES
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The basketball you walk around the court
Produces a hard, stinging, clean report.
You pause and crouch and, after feinting, swoop
Around a ghost defender to the hoop
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Bri's Introductory Poem:

' Write a nice title ', or so PoemHunter does say to ME, so…
I guess I should comply, as my time on PoemHunter is FREE!
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His talent truly matched
The hero with the regal name.
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</>Random of thoughts is the kingdom of Youth,
Irregularity is his regularity, what a rarity!
He speaks with vivified speed, yet with alarming clarity,
With the speed of a glider, he does his deeds,
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My disability
Is a very
Real thing,
My dear friend,
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Life is like playing basketball
dribble, run, walk, jump and shoot.
play without a ball and a goal
and the game will be pointless
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February 2019 Showcase Of Poems From Here & There …[ Sharing Poem Hunter Poems With You! ; Topics Are: " Lonely "& "Butterfly" & Assorted Others ]

When I have had ‘bad words' with the one I dearly Love,
thoughts of loneliness may {at my injured mind} Shove,
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Are the poems included here the 'Very Best'?
I know of no way, such a theory, ever to test.
Some ‘works' you may like, some you may …..NOT.
Some I may enjoy immensely [they really 'hit the spot'].
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I visited my old home town
this week and stayed in the old
house where I grew up.
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Adult companionship I seek
Desperately to listen and talk
At least at the end of the week
Strolling on the wooden boardwalk
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it's not the crutches we decry
it's the need to move forward
though we haven't the strength
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Introductory Poem:

It's October 29th and I'll stay up late to share with you
several P-H poems I've enjoyed, not just one or two.
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Play basketball
is an exciting thing
you have
in your life.
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The most profound thing Einstein said
is that time is taffy, malleable.

And so is space.
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The Popcorn Chronicle

I am at the movies with a big bag of popcorn and a big drink trying to navigate between the narrow seats. It is awkward.
The movie has started and I am squeezing down the aisle facing the rear of the movie theater and then it happens.
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***A bedtime story for Frank James Ryan Jr. who has encouraged my writings, and inspired by the Forum discussions of what type of poetry is best and who should be allowed to judge.***

The Rider
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I sleep in a beautiful structure
After years of apartment life
My child shies from all flying insects
My wife says there's mice and there's bees
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I hit the court
The ball in my hand
Only problem is
I lost my wristbands
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Yes, everyone must have a basketball.
It's the gift that must be given to all,
Because with it, everyone can have a ball.
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You'd think that cheerleader tryouts
would be a closed affair,
held in the gym
under the watchful eye
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Well the liberals have succeeded in their cross-gendering of our society.
In Wisconsin, the dairy capitol of the Midwest and Football fame,
The home of Cheese heads, the beer, Vince Lombardi
- and the University of Wisconsin,
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Everyday memories are made
Every second, every minute, every hour
Memories of happiness
Memories of sadness
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A reply to aficionados of other sports who ask,
'How can you like baseball? '

Baseball is a Duke's game in July
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I have never known a woman
in the biblical sense
and probably never will.
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Pearl Avenue runs past the high-school lot,
Bends with the trolley tracks, and stops, cut off
Before it has a chance to go two blocks,
At Colonel McComsky Plaza. Berth's Garage
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Yesterday, the sunshine made the air glow
pushing me like a sixteen-year-old
to toss my shirt off, and run along the river shore,
splashing in the water, wading out to the reeds,
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i should be working.
i have:
essays to grade,
lesson plans to write,
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(limerick)Intro To A Tom Swifty # 694

My grandaughter's sprouting too fast
Much taller this week than the last
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THE sky splits open, like a angry mouth,
the planets begine to play basketball,
as your moods start to swing.
YOUR telescope hitz a home run, then
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The squeak of sneakers
The pounding of feet
The sounds on court
Are just so sweet.
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He has five children, I’m papa
to a hundred pencils.
I bought the chair he sat in
from a book of chairs,
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I. Concord Skateboard Park

Sheltered in this smooth, round,
concrete nest of dips and curves,
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The end of an era,
The end of a dream,
An oreo cookie
Without any cream,
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In the game of basketball,
It's up and down the court;
Ready to dribble and shoot,
Each player shows his worth.
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Up!
Up!
Into
The basket
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I get off the IRT in front of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture after riding an early
Amtrak from Philly to get a hair cut at what used to be the Harlem "Y" barbershop. It gets me in at ten to
ten. Waiting, I eat fish cakes at the Pam Pam and listen to the ladies call out orders: bacon-biscuit twice,
scrambled scrambled fried, over easy, grits, country sausage on the side. Hugh is late. He shampoos me,
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Tremors, Shakes, and loss of life.
My heart goes out to the people of Haiti,
My silent prayers, to the Almighty,
To give them strength and comfort in this time of strife.
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Tsss
Summer sounds,
Tsss
Concrete and heat,
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For sale: old basketball. New Raptors.
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I am father of four, grandfather of eighteen, and great-grandfather of seven.

I like to play chess, checkers and other games of logic. I have written logic problems and sold them to Dell Publishing Company.
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An endless search, a burning quest ended in your luscious lips -
Full of nectar, dripping with moisture from those soft chips!
Sweet is the taste of your lips, I find myself lost in a thought;
Curves of your hips, stuck in my mind, without chase I'm caught!
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It's a "travel week" here in Georgia. I'm writing this on June 1st at the Atlanta airport. This morning Sunny's flying in from Nebraska, Sophy from California, Lisa from New York and Anna from Oregon - all around noon. Charles put a hard-shell luggage carrier on the roof of the Navigator because he didn't trust it to hold the luggage 4 girls could bring.

My parents left last Saturday for Warsaw to join "Doctors Without Borders." Charles, Leong and I drove them to the airport and then we took Leong to "The Mad Italian" for the best steak & cheese sandwiches on this side of andromeda.
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If Heaven's path were made for one
and ne're a choice but to walk alone
then I wonder what should become
of my absence in God's lovely home…
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she never missed a practice
never missed a game
sat there watching
yelling his name
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your friend who died two days ago
finally gave you the answer
yes, they play basketball in heaven
in a heavenly basketball court
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You are so beautiful my ballerina girl
Dancing sweetly since age four
Tiptoe, twirl, swirl
Always dancing in and out the door
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I just didn't get it—
even with the teacher holding an orange (the earth) in one hand
and a lemon (the moon) in the other,
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Let children play football or basketball.
They would experience camaraderie,
Team spirit and togetherness.
They would learn bearing failures and defeats
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my heart pounds as i run downcourt
my hearts speeds as i plan to shoot
to watch the ball go thru the hoop
to watch the people cheer and scream
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She felt bad when she didn't win in sports,
Classmates bullied her as she was a fatso,
Being an average in academics added to her misery,
Not being a hottie, she regretted,
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New York, New York, Don't you just love it?
Bright lights, fast cars, the apple on Times Square,
People walking around carrying portfolios,
Going for that job that may or may not be there.
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There comes a time—
(but you're not that old) —
when basketball games are viewed
only from a distance—
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Hey, Class of Sixty! It's time
for our sixty-year reunion,
but with the current world situation
and the Corona scare, I guess we
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I remember
Hot summer days
with tarred sidewalks
sucking at ones feet
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If we were to have
Just One Leg:

How could we -
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Wow! The fingers are pointing but who is really to blame?
And before starting your list better remove LeBron’s name,
Michael had Scottie Pippen for three & with Horace Grant,
With the final tray “Bad Boy” Dennis Rodman was in camp.
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The cries of the weak and helpless are heard from the shore,
To a ship bound for the America’s under the master’s roar,
“Up the anchor, set all sails, let this profitable journey begin, ”
With a laugh, “you’re safety’s temporary, we’ll be back again.”
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There was this dude named McCall
Who was very, very tall.
It doesn’t worry him yet
It’s a good thing, you bet
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The women’s Kansas State Basketball team is known as the Lady Wildcats
And it is to their resourceful ingenuity that we may all now take off our hats.

To beef up attendance for this Friday’s game..no, I am not at all mistaken
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Summer vacation is almost here & surely you will play,
But do not let these games be the highlight of your day,
For there is only one way to accomplish all your needs,
As the most important thing that you can do is, “READ! ”
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I help warm the bench and cheer for my team.
I join in the huddles and listen and scheme.

I line up and join in the Star Spangled Banner
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My love plays piano and his foot hovers above the pedal.
Sustain, they call it when the note floats
like a basketball player suspended in air,
or a question whose purpose is to remain unanswered.
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Veritable giant among men
Abounding in charisma
Nobody dislikes him
'Coach' he is called by most
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Last night was the long-awaited first meeting
this year between basketball powerhouse
universities North Carolina and Duke.
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A Teacher I was,
a teacher to many students
from all over the world
as in many international schools I taught
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I play basketball
with my spleen
I said
because
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In 1916, Dr. Einstein published the final version
Of his long research and discoveries of ‘General Relativity',
In the prestigious Science Journal ‘Annalen Der Physik'.
His latest theory- a comprehensive work, was titled-
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May Fourth happened twenty miles from me,
That's what brought the war home.
My high school friend got shot in the back,
That's when it hit me that there was a war.
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He tried to hump her on Sunday.
She said, it ain't happening not at all.
He tried to hump her on Monday.
She said, it ain't happening not at all.
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Section B this month contains only 3 poems NOW; it's true,
BUT If I take the time, it will soon have more than a few.
Why, I don't even have one of mine (me, Bri) in 'B' yet.
But I have poems waiting for 'C', so BUSY I need to get!
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There is a young clever man named Hossein/ Hussein
Who can reach everything that he wants, he attains
He likes basketball
Wish that God saves him from all the cabal
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My fellow Americans...
Latinos, Blacks
Rednecks, bigots
Aztecs, Egyptians
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New York City Central Park
on the ice skating rink
two teenage girls steal the show
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Photos on a table: nearly shiny gods of reflection,
made us bow down before the small, instant altars
spread out like a sea of happy snapshots.
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Even in high school Irving pondered the profundities
not interested in basketball or hot dogs,
luxurious sneakers or big breasted women.
As the years flowed one into the other
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From Atlantic to Pacific
writers hope for a terrific
audience, although none will send
them messages like “Be my friend.”
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Thursday night basketball at a south side Chicago park,
Gunfire amidst chaos as shots echoed loudly in the dark,
Our culprits? DreadLocked men in a dark colored sedan,
The tally would have been even greater had some not ran.
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If you need others to play a sport
If you need others as a cohort,
Then please play football, baseball or basketball
They will help and support you with a win or a fall,
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Airports are a familiar space that highlights my soul and sends me to freedom.
Holidays away from the mundane, holidays spent with you for just a few days.
It's effortless happiness by your side, my little dream that lives too far away.
In this world far from what exhausts me, I am alive, I am free.
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She was the beautiful girl of his dreams.
But she ignored him until he became a star player on the high school basketball team.
Then she was all up in his face.
For her he had lost his taste.
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A mother’s love is sweeter
than honey from the honeycomb.

It is more beautiful than
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I'm athletic,
With the prettiest blue eyes I've ever seen.
If you take a look,
You'll know what I mean.
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What you see is an ordinary girl,
but don't let your eyes be fooled,
My eyes shine like pearls,
and of I am really cool
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