Basketball Poems - Examples of all types of basketball poetry to share and read. This list of basketball poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Whether you like coaching, watching, or playing b-ball or hoops you know that it is a beautiful, poetically athletic, and artistic sport. From rim-shaking dunks to Michael Jordan like ballet, NBA or college basketball is inspirational. Basketball is not a sport; it's a lifestyle. Read
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In Loving MemoryIn Loving Memory
In loving memory John Kleeves
Written By: Ashley Marie Gilchrist
02-02-2015
Although I can not heard you I thank you, for always being there
Even when you were in and out
You always seemed to care for...
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Categories:
basketball, feelings, god, loss,
Form: Free verse
Putting the 'Pro' in 'Professional'
‘More drama swirls around Caitlin Clark’
‘Angel Reese’s pregame outfit kills the internet’
'Aliyah Boston’s three-word response to Breanna...
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Categories:
basketball, satire, women,
Form: Free verse
time for the benchIn debate a gallop called Gish
Scored points like a basketball's swish
That Joe could not block!
So now taking stock
Biden's sideline walk is our wish
DT's sick slick lies and his bunk
Were passed past the player who stunk
Since...
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Categories:
basketball, old, political,
Form: Limerick
Unparalleled Play
Unparalleled, his heady play
court vision like a night-hawk
in the blaze of...
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Categories:
appreciation, basketball, leadership, uplifting,
Form: Couplet
Love JonesBefore my first kiss or chivalrous embrace
A throbbing pulse in my heart started to race
Sweetly my love for you began to grow
Knickerbockers I love to watch and I never miss The Lake
...
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Categories:
america, appreciation, art, basketball,
Form: Acrostic
Star-Shine
‘Star’ Caitlin Clark
Media-created Monster
Pity her, almost
She’s white, so she’s ‘right’
'Next coming' of Larry Bird
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Categories:
basketball, hyperbole, sad, star,
Form: Senryu
Do Not Wish Upon This Star
When you hitch your wagon to a new star
you best make sure she’s up to par
For if she fails, your wagon’s unhitched
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Categories:
basketball, star,
Form: Rhyme
Pledging Allegiance to Caitlin Clark
Caitlin Clark this, Caitlin Clark that
your name is magic, you're the Cat in the Hat
You’ve got folks so mesmerized
they...
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Categories:
basketball, irony, magic, star,
Form: Couplet
Keep Shooting, Caitlin
Shot after shot after shot
Caitlin’s red-hot
Swish, swish, swish; the net barely moves
Caitlin feels it; she’s in the groove
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Categories:
addiction, basketball, cry, emotions,
Form: Couplet
LeapI set out on a journey to appease my soul and honor the deity, but I got caught in a rift and almost fell from the cliff. I was caught between the tree and the...
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Categories:
america, april, basketball, bereavement,
Form: Narrative
The LegendJust about every morning, I see him there,
A solitary figure on the basketball court.
He is shooting free throw after free throw,
And most of them go in, but some do not....
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Categories:
basketball, memory,
Form: Free verse
Small Quirks. . . Elementary
Little Wrinkled Nose -- The
Way We Like It . . ....
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Categories:
basketball, best friend, boat,
Form: Senryu
Defining Certain Sports
Basketball's considered a 'contact sport'
Football is a 'sport of collision'
Hunting animals 'for sport'
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Categories:
animal, basketball, football, how
Form: Rhyme
The KingShall I compare myself to my king,
My humble lord Lebron,
With his 4 rings,
His Lakers jersey he dawns,
With his shot point average so high,
The world without him,
I would surely die,
His time all spent training in the...
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Categories:
angel, basketball, best friend,
Form: Sonnet
Caitlin Who
Caitlin Who?
Girl's yet to hear a boo.
Let her play pro ball for a few years ~
GOAT wannabes...
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Categories:
basketball, cry, time,
Form: Clerihew
Specific Types of Basketball Poems
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