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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I am aliveI am a fruit
I am the truth
I am the root cause
Of all your blues....
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Categories:
basketball, abortion, allusion, art, aubade,
Form: Free verse
Millionaire Salaries and Perks
Nobody from my hey-day
good enough to play
in today's NBA
That's what they all say
I say that's because now it's 'all work'
a 'day-at-the-office' mentality, like a clerk
...
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Categories:
basketball, business, money, sports,
Form: Rhyme
My DayMy day today
Is a piece of hay
Golden and at bay
Does the truth
make me flaw?...
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Categories:
basketball, abuse, analogy, anniversary, art,
Form: Rhyme
A poemDaddy was a fantastic man
Daddy was a person who loved poetry very much
Daddy respected every person
He said that everyone was given a especial art
My ambitions soar each time I think about dad
Daddy was a...
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Categories:
basketball, anti bullying, april, art,
Form: Free verse
One Hundred Point Game
This is hard to believe, but true.
It happened back in 1962.
A basketball player scored a hundred points in a game.
It was an accomplishment worthy of much fame.
The late Wilt Chamberlain was the man's name.
His Warriors...
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Categories:
basketball, history, sports,
Form: Rhyme
CarsA Car is made piece by piece into magic
Each version beautiful and strong
God,The Creator, of us all...
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Categories:
basketball, age, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Haiku
My Pet Poems, WOODYMy Pet Poems, WOODY
Not long after our heart-stealing beauty
Watson passed, Jim drove me off from
The breeder’s and I sat in the passenger seat
With a cocker, colored a light maize/vanilla,
Cupped in my palms on my lap,...
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Categories:
basketball, dog, forgiveness, peace,
Form: Free verse
ICE COLD LOVE-Ill innocent cellular lively intracellular lifeless ice lazy plush ice cold LOVE-
12/28/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr...
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Categories:
adventure, analogy, basketball, cool,
Form: Alliteration
Become niceSummer life is pretty nice
Winter always gives you frost bite
So when winter arrives
Become nice and warm nice attire!...
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Categories:
basketball, age, anger, anniversary, arabic,
Form: Rhyme
MYSTICAL MOONLIGHT
MYSTCAL MOONLIGHT
Intoxicating, breathtaking.
Silvery foreshadows of innocence
The birthplace of my poetry.
It's starlight, of tides and times.
Moonlight and God are spinning
The perfect poetic chrysalis,
Of dreams and peace.
As His existence always is.
Above the clouds He does not sleep.
But love and...
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Categories:
basketball, god, humanity,
Form: Free verse
The Two Sides Of Bad WeatherNear the end of October, a gelid wind blew
and froze the corollas of the dainty daisies;
it came as a surprise, sad was the face of Matthew,
no baseball in the field that echoed with screams! ...
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Categories:
autumn, baseball, basketball, cheer
Form: Rhyme
MeGive me some eggs
I will make a pancake
Give me a purse
I will pay in good cash
Sell me a ring
I will always blink
But take me for a ride
I will take you for a hike!!!...
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Categories:
basketball, angst, anxiety, april, arabic,
Form: I do not know?
A PrayerIt's a beautiful day today
The primroses of today are here to stay
So with a lily lash in my hands
I must pray
To the creator inorder to make this
A happy day!...
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Categories:
basketball, age, allah, art, assonance,
Form: Rhyme
My Pet Poems, BarkleyBarkley
He was barely nine weeks old
When Jim set him down inside the front door
And he came in, not timidly
To this new home with all its long-established
Smells, but he strut forward
As if he owned the...
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Categories:
basketball, christian, dog, love,
Form: Free verse
If we look to each otherWe will only look past each other,
If we tend to look to the past.
But if we look to each other,
No alternative will be passed.
If we listen to each other,
We will enjoy a great repast.
If we...
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Categories:
absence, baptism, basketball, boat,
Form: Didactic
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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