Devotion Basketball Poems

I've rehearsed this moment 10,000 times 
It won't go away instead, it magnifies in my mind

Late nights and early mornings....... I know them
Working,  honing,...

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I'll never forget
That time when we met

I looked at you cravingly 
Then you glanced back nonchalantly

It was love at first sight, at least for me
For...

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Three 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...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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* For basketball legend Kevin Garnett *


Intensity ... defined
excuses were for gods and gamblers
(lesser giants with fairer feuds)
HE ... was of a wholly-invested mettle and...

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POEM 23  A FATHER LOVE 


A FATHER LOVE IS SOMETHING THAT 

NO ONE CAN EXPLAIN; IT IS MADE 

OF DEEP DEVOTION OF LOVE, JOY...

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Now that I lay down to sleep,
Strengthen me, I'm worn and weak.
Forgive my sins that I have done,
Wash my slate until I have none.

Swiftly remove...

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Sports can summon within you the star
the player that prepares himself to professional
a being that belongs beneath balls and sweat
or water and wheels of any...

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Through the darkest of nights with cold ice
            Yet remembering in my heart with...

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Who's that staring through my window walls, with eyes as old as time
the clock has not yet moved and the wind outside has died
no breath...

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I will start with using my hand as a guide
And in the end I will open my eyes that I will decide

I consider to do...

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Bouncing 
A rhythm on repeat   
Exhaustion heavy 
Impossible to admit defeat 
Nor to succumb to the pain 
Winner is not a title for...

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While you sleep I tell you all of the things I keep inside throughout day.
Now that you can hear but not listen I find them...

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Bouncing the ball on the court 
Air balls flying through this sport 
Slam dunking hard on the rim 
Knowing to guard her or him 
Elevating...

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