Football Baseball Poems

When the leaves fall,
In the autumn, as the,
Sunsets as the night becomes cooler.
Seasons resemble the,
Changing of the guard.
From baseball to the,
Newly knighted kings of Football.
As...

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You don’t know me
You did not know me then
I watched you from afar
You knew not where or when
I turned up at your practice
I saw you...

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I've just spoken with Polycarp
About his bright red baseball cap 
I'd swear is his main handicap:
His wish to keep wearing the cap
While to Tennis Ball...

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Have you noticed how technology
    Is more pervasive in the world of sports?
From the equipment to the playing fields,
   ...

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These are the best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part V

Just Smile
by Michael R. Burch

We'd like to think some angel smiling down
will watch him...

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The best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part IV

King Henry the Great
by Michael R. Burch

Long live the King! 
Send him victorious, 
happy and glorious,...

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These are the best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part III

For Jack Nicklaus, at the 1987 Open
by Michael R. Burch

When you were young
every putt...

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These are the best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part II

The Locker
by Michael R. Burch

All the dull hollow clamor has died
and what was contained,
removed,
reproved
adulation...

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Ali’s Song
by Michael R. Burch

They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful,...

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Too blind to play baseball
  Too soft for football
Too slow for basketball
  No future in sports at all

Those who can't do, teach
 ...

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Never missed an NBA championship
   until this year
Never missed a World Series 
   until this year
Never missed a Super Bowl
 ...

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Why so serious
Have some fun
Game has begun
Tan tana tan
Tana tana tan
Have some fun
Don't inject me
Don't use gun
Tan tana tan
Tana tana tan
Have some fun..
When nothing goes...

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Hooray!

     Wet grassy feet fill my soccer cleats.
     Hot sweaty teens run fast track meets.

  ...

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a baseball hides in shadows on the landing
  glove and bat nowhere to be seen
a football perches oddly on the top step
  helmet...

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Number 42 Retire
Brooklyn Dodgers Number 42
Hang up your jersey, honey
No one can follow you after Jackie Robinson

Major League Baseball was uplifted into the outer sphere
When...

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