God Basketball Poems

Game day snacks were on my mind
as I quickly got into the check out line.
March Madness enlivened a cold, gray day
and made me impatient with...

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ON... 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...

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Dear 2020!

This Poem was Inspired by an Acknowledgment that this Past Year Was Difficult or Tough, That I Don't have All of the Answers, But...

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These are the best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part V

Just Smile
by Michael R. Burch

We'd like to think some angel smiling down
will watch him...

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These are the best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part II

The Locker
by Michael R. Burch

All the dull hollow clamor has died
and what was contained,
removed,
reproved
adulation...

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Ali’s Song
by Michael R. Burch

They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful,...

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My 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,...

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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...

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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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Barkley

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...

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He was born a bouncing baby boy in the year 1975 in Hampton Virginia.

To two loving parents Ann Iverson and Allen Broughton.


While growing up in...

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24 seconds of silence for (Kobe Bryant)

Twenty four seconds of silence,
seems like forever, 
and yet seems so short.  

Just like Kobe's journey in life,
so...

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"A True Champion"
by:  Eric L. Boddie

Knowing you were 24 when you also retired an eight
Only one g.o.a.t. in my Lifetime has achieved that fate
Be...

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where God Jesus dwells
such a glorious place Grace 
eternally sings 

with streets paved of gold 
we're all Sinners Grace is served
 long as they've repent...

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I did not leave you money
I did not leave you a house
I did leave you a car
But I did leave you with Knowledge of God...

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