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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Align your intuitionON... MY MISSION ... EVERYDAY... VISION.. HOPING... AND WISHING...LISTEN...ALIGN...
YOUR... INTUITION... MY AMBITION... IS TO GET IT!! BELIVE IT HARD TIME AND PAIN I DONE LIVE IT UP.IM STILL FIGHTING. SO NEVER GIVE UP STAY UPLIFTED...
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Categories:
basketball, angel, april, art, baptism,
Form: Free verse
Why I cryMoonlight ,shining through the window pane
The silence that slowly drives you insane
Wind flowing through the trees
Talking softy to the summer breeze
Sounds out in the night
become loneliest when you turn out the light
Oh no what's...
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Categories:
basketball, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
You
Come on baby .we have taken it slow
My hearts ready to go
The odds were beat
We took the heat
Its with you i wish to be
Have a little trust in me
And one day you...
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Categories:
baby, basketball,
Form: Rhyme
The Balls: A Parody of Poe's The BellsI
Hear the bouncing of the balls--
Basketballs!
What a sound of merriment they cause when each ball falls!
How they echo, echo, echo,
Inside the gymnasium walls,
Arriving at a crescendo
While the spectators shout “Bravo!”
Drowning the referee’s calls;
And the players...
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Categories:
11th grade, basketball, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
March Madness - REV
As madness takes hold,
the valiant will stand.
They've only one goal,
must win to advance.
Go bold or go home.
Take matters in hand.
Seal the deal closed.
Become National Champ's.
Precious strands of rope.
Welcome To the Big Dance.
It was a back-door...
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Categories:
basketball,
Form: Rhyme
Five On The FloorFive on the floor, five and more
And they're dancing to the show
One and done, over and won
As the march to madness goes
Game on, and the game is for
Five on the floor, five and more
Taking pains...
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Categories:
basketball, heartbreak, magic, sports,
Form: Quatern
A National Treasure
Sister Jean, a national treasure
burst on the scene five years ago
her Loyola Ramblers took the NCAAs by storm
and Sister Jean's quiet life was...
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Categories:
age, basketball, celebrity, old,
Form: Rhyme
Three-Point ShotThree Point Shot
You reach the line, an almost perfect semicircle, racing from one side of the court to the other, avoiding the hoop In a soft wide arc, Your shoes biting deep into the floor,...
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Categories:
basketball, sports, success,
Form: Haibun
Three Point ShotThree Point Shot
You reach the line, an almost perfect semicircle,
Racing from one side of the court to the other, avoiding the hoop
In a soft wide arc,
Your shoes biting into the floor,
As you come to...
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Categories:
basketball, devotion, passion, sports,
Form: Free verse
Did You Enjoy It
Off-season training
running, lifting weights
Grueling workouts
we loved to hate
Pre-season practices
10 pushups per lay-up missed
Wind sprints...
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Categories:
basketball, high school, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
FLOWERY AT DOWN WITHERED AT DUSKFLOWERY AT DAWN, WITHERED AT DUSK.
Summer today Fall before tomorrow
A youth today aged and frail tomorrow
If you live to age, maybe on a life borrowed
Happy at...
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Categories:
adventure, allusion, analogy, basketball,
Form: Free verse
Diamond Head Classic Christmas Day Championship
*Audio, and above VIDEO LINK of Final Seconds to the Buzzer.
Diamond Head Classic Christmas Day Championship
It took thirteen years to feel that glory,
like a cat on display under a hat.
Living a Dr. Seuss allegory,
feeling...
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Categories:
basketball, celebration, school, uplifting,
Form: Quatern
Sweet Victory
Fists clinched
On the edge of victory
Like a thunderous rain storm
The crowd leaps to their feet
A three point shot
Spinning upward
Suspended in time
And in a moment of reckoning
For the first time
The trophy is mine......
...
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Categories:
basketball, sports,
Form: Verse
The AthleteA brawly guy
A woman sighs
He gives a wink
It makes you think
He goes to the gym
At sports he'll always win
He often dates
And never waits
He goes online
Occasionally has wine
He's captain of the football team
The fans in the...
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Categories:
basketball,
Form: Rhyme
shooting starman-child used to being a shooting star
drinks always came for free at the cash bar
full to brim with urges and willfulness
left wondering alone in wilderness
not quite able to keep up with himself
loss and wanton desires...
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Categories:
basketball, change, life, people,
Form: Sonnet
Specific Types of Basketball Poems
Read wonderful basketball poetry on the following sub-topics:
acrostic, art, cinquain, concrete, free verse, funny, haiku, limerick, inspirational, lebron james, life, love, march madness, michael jordan, nba, rhyme, school, simile, sneakers, sonnet, spring, sports, winter,
and more.
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