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Backboard Poems - Poems about Backboard

Premium Member Acrimony
...Get offline. Meet me at the corner! My words are like the wind, whistling in unassuming; Your words are filled with daggers, attention seeking shouters; Can’t come up with ideas of your ow......

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Categories: backboard, anger, emotions, feelings, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Couplets Retro Curled
...Imagine if a couplet traveled the world, gaining an accent before moving on; Repositioned from front to back twirled; An old rhyme harnessed and hurled, finding a backboard to bounce upon; Im......

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Categories: backboard, emotions, feelings, poetry, write,
Form: Villanelle



Basket Bucket Rim Rim
...Hand's Up Dashing, Feat Moving, Ball Grasping .... Let's Soar! Sound's Fill The Gymnasium, Nothing Blocks Our Chore! Inside, Outside, .... Up And Down, Once, .... More! Basket Bucket, Rim, R......

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Categories: backboard, appreciation,
Form: Ballad
Old Bolsanaro
...Old Bolsanaro wishes he was, and takes strides to become, a fictional character as a way to promote more predictable backlash from his invasive, divisive and inflammatorily abusive comments—you know,......

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Categories: backboard, allegory, political, satire,
Form: Prose Poetry
Abysmally Slow Learner
...I don't know about you but the seeming me abused and cursed had all my birth fingers burnt off at the first knuckle before the first lullaby from too many here hold my beer blithely eager watch ......

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Categories: backboard, how i feel,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Backboard
...The south wind came and it blew so strong it sent my backboard where it didn't belong Busted and crooked it warped so much from the Gods of winds performing their thrust Now my basketball has......

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Categories: backboard, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hoops and Hops
...Now I’m not a guy likes to dunk, But this overseas backboard is junk. For the costs I’ve incurred, I should beat Larry Byrd, Or hit a three-pointer, I’d thunk. See, the front of the rim always......

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Categories: backboard, basketball, drink,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sports Shorts -- Layups
...Patrick Ewing What you chewing? Larry Bird Hall-of-Fame assured Scottie Pippen Lid's still flippin' Tim Duncan Legacy hasn't sunk in Bill Bradley Didn't play badly Walt ......

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Categories: backboard, basketball, humorous, stars,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A Faded Polaroid Snapshot
...Long, winding gravel driveway decrepit old Mercury station wagon parked there doors unlocked those big red buttons sticking up no seatbelts either Tiger lilies blooming ......

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Categories: backboard, basketball, car, flower, house,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Backboard Game
...It had nothing to do with March Madness or the NCAA final championship game between Arkansas and Duke in 1994, but it was one great game.* In fact, it was one of the greatest games I have ever witnes......

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Categories: backboard, basketball,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Basketball Bob
...Basketball Bob Slam dunk, arm is stuck Reach up high toward backboard jumps Basketball Bob scores 2/28/18......

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Categories: backboard, basketball, celebration, celebrity,
Form: Haiku
My Throne
...My Throne The golden emblem On my throne The tall and long backboard Phased with pictures And memories The seat that holds The power My throne......

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Categories: backboard, creation,
Form: Free verse
Two Greatest Commandments
...37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love yo......

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Categories: backboard, allegory, analogy, religious,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Hoosier Hoopla!
...O'er the undulating prairie where grows soy beans and corn, Generations of premier basketball players have been born. The Hoosier State of Indiana, where budding talent is so replete, Where small ......

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Categories: backboard, sportsbasketball,
Form: Rhyme
- Playing Basketball - With My Widowed Father
...We play this game each time we talk, in person or on the phone, he is the backboard with the basket, I dribble on to find the right positions taking careful aim, as I am trying hard to ......

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Categories: backboard, family, father,
Form: I do not know?

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