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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TeaEarly mornings
Life calls for help
I quiver with pain
Maid comes in
She brings me
A mug of unsweetened tea
Tea without milk
Is medicine for
The stealth...
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Categories:
basketball, abuse, analogy, angst, art,
Form: Dramatic Verse
PrideLeave your pride
Understand the meaning of sacrifice
Lift open your eyes
I am not an angry child
I am just someone who has shunned pride
Please try to think in a new style
We were created to head towards the...
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Categories:
age, august, basketball, beach,
Form: Light Verse
COURT DISASTERCOURT DISASTER
I survey the court with a cock-eyed view
From the top of the basketball pole.
My hoop hangs it head in abject shame,
And the players look up in dismay
The man who erected me got it all...
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Categories:
basketball, drink,
Form: Free verse
Filched Physiognomy Mine revisitedFilched Physiognomy – Mine revisited!
Absolute zero escape
velocity guts dance
sing days (contra and square),
cuz metabolic full abundance
abdominal adipose tissue acceptance
not in accordance
with light as a feather
miss lost acquaintance
the boy within forced admittance
as sure man tanks of...
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Categories:
basketball, absence, addiction, age, angst,
Form: Free verse
Hoops and HopsNow 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 droops,
And that makes...
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Categories:
basketball, drink,
Form: Free verse
Wave GoodbyeFor more than two years, we’ve been riding
a tsunami, now surfing the sixth viral wave
and we’ve all become amateur epidemiologists.
Hooray for MRNA, but variants keep emerging
and we’re all getting tired of the Greek alphabet.
Me,...
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Categories:
basketball, change,
Form: Free verse
The Final Four
Two storied teams
Creme-de-la-creme
Yet one has to lose
To sing the blues
Tear-stained its dreams
______________________
University of North Carolina
nipped Duke University in a
game for the ages tonight,
81-77, and goes on to play
Kansas for the...
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Categories:
basketball, class, cry,
Form: Rhyme
tourney weatherred buds are blooming
song birds are swooning
tonight, on the weather
they say it will snow
cardinal's crooning
mushrooms are mooning
temperatures dropping
the wind's going to blow
spring in the south is
the craziest season
winter's reluctant
not ready to go
eighties and twenties
within...
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Categories:
basketball, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Annoying Basketball Kid 2009It was to be a lazy afternoon
spent at a nearby park.
Jordan, Anthony, and I
swung on the swings
and climbed their wooden structure
& the gazebo.
We...
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Categories:
basketball, 10th grade, age, anger,
Form: Prose
Who am II might cry
Don't hurt my feelings
I might cry
Don't underestimate my sense of being
I might cry
If you let loose anger on me
I might cry
Because I am not a maid
I might cry
You called me a waif
The loaf...
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Categories:
basketball, abuse, age, allah, anniversary,
Form: Alliteration
I Never Knew
Never missed an NBA championship
until this year
Never missed a World Series
until this year
Never missed a Super Bowl
until this year
Never knew what I was missing
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Categories:
absence, baseball, basketball, football,
Form: Free verse
SensibilityI believe in love
I do not like the lonesome night
I love the caress of the day.
You see I was born in may
Believe me,I do obey
The tunes of a humdrum way
How I love prunes
The moon does...
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Categories:
basketball, age, anxiety, appreciation, april,
Form: Ballad
Hatam Tai1.Kya ap kay paas Qaroon jitna khazana hai?
2.Bhai suna hai ap goldsmith ho.
3.Khuda nay ap ko bohat diya hai.
4.Ap ka dil darya hai baqi sab samundar hai.
5.Bhai garebon ko darya me dubki laganay do.
6.Mooj hai...
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Categories:
allusion, arabic, baseball, basketball,
Form: List
Categories:
12th grade, basketball, bullying,
Form: ABC
McClendon's BreakStreaking, dashing, breaking away
Up, up the tempo the McClendon way
Getting wide and filling the lanes
Assisting the open man with two points to gain
Upbeat, back and forth, fast, and then faster
Sitting and watching, a spectator's delight,...
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Categories:
basketball, beautiful, black love,
Form: Rhyme
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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