Rhyme Basketball Poems | Examples

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Premium MemberSee the 'Red Panda' Perform

       At halftime, see the ‘Red Panda’ perform
          NBA fans to her do swarm

       Way up on top of that crazy unicycle
          cool as a cucumber packed in an icicle

       Flipping bowls, cups and saucers from her feet 
          to the top of her pretty head

       Smile and laugh your troubles away
          your ‘I’m- out-in-public’ inhibitions shed


Premium MemberThe 'Beautiful People' of Today

     The ‘Beautiful People’ of today
        play for the NBA

     30+ indicted for point-fixing
        just yesterday

     Mafia-invaded
        their ‘defenses’ penetrated ~

     Courts of law have the final say

Premium MemberCan Composure be Taught

     Can composure somehow be taught
       pre-packaged ‘poise lessons’ bought
     
     Can’t say I ever gave it a thought
        ‘til I watched a WNBA 'game' 
                        ~ I mean, onslaught



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     WNBA = Women's National Basketball
                   Association

Premium MemberHoya Paranoia

   Trump Derangement Syndrome
     and Hoya Paranoia*

   Both reside in Washington D.C.
     both designed to annoy ya



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   *The Georgetown University basketball
     team's nickname is 'the Hoyas.' The 
     team is known for its 'annoying,' but 
     effective, full-court pressure defense.
     Other teams became paranoid about
     dribbling the ball against them. Hence,
     'Hoya Paranoia.'

Premium MemberKaitlin's Showed Them All

    WNBA’s on track to lose $50 million this year
      mostly because its veteran players feared
    Kaitlin Clark, a white rookie’s who’s cisgender

    They treated her rough, thought she was tender
      but tough as nails, she’s showed them all
    White girls with boyfriends know how to play ball


Premium MemberDo Not Wish Upon This Star

   When you hitch your wagon to a new star
      you best make sure she’s up to par
   For if she fails, your wagon’s unhitched

   WNBA's 'bright college star' ~
      already heading straight for the ditch



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   In case you're not sure, the 'star' I refer 
   to is none other than the vastly overrated
   Caitlin Clark -- a college star, who (I pre-
   dict) will flame out in the WNBA.

Premium MemberDefining Certain Sports

  Basketball's  considered a 'contact sport'
    Football is a 'sport of collision'

  Hunting animals 'for sport'
                                   ~ purely derision

Premium MemberThey Don't Make Buddies Like Us Anymore

  He called me 'Kike'
   I called him 'Wop'
  At two-on-two basketball
   We two were tops

  No pair could beat us
    in the whole city
  We'd be expelled now for bigotry
    What a doggone pity

Premium MemberIowa Girls Basketball Is Serious

In the state of Iowa girls basketball is the biggest sport.
Bigger than golf, football, baseball or any other that you’d sort.
We are basketball players before we settle down, an Amazon wife said.
And sometimes a player afterwards, said her son, Leland Lee Ted.

His mama scoffs at his reply, she beats him at horse after school.
Never letting up a bit, winning is the girls’ basketball creed and rule.
Husband will not play her, he has seen her tough it out since she was ten.
The one thing that she insists on doing is always taking the big win.

Premium MemberBasketball Boys

They were in disagreement about the basketball foul line.
Soon yelling and screaming, boys numbering eight or nine.
Some of them ran off, but two became rebelliously loud. 
Sportsmanship tested, said their fathers, feeling proud.

Premium MemberWhere Mister Gilbert Arenas Can Go

Mister Gilbert Arenas tweeted that 'no one will care'
  if Nikola Jokic, two-time NBA MVP at 24, becomes the heir
    to players like Michael Jordan, who played with some flair

  'Jokic's not cool enough,' says this Mr. Gilbert Arenas
  Well then, Mr. NO MVP OR TITLE EVER WON ~
    You can just go and stroke your pen...(al thing) for us

Premium MemberWhy I Cry

Moonlight ,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 that sound
One eye open as you look around
Imagination has come unwound
Shadows that are dancing across the floor.
Maybe mom should of closed the closet door
What's that  something running through my wall
I'd jump and run but id just up and fall
but I'd  get away if only I could walk
Cant tell you I've yet learned to talk
It's all this night
 time dreary 
That during the day I'm so weary  
Can't call out your name
Your not to blame
 when I need you I have to cry
Just thought id tell you why

Premium MemberYou

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 will find 
Babe id never leave you behind
Don`t let things of the past 
Keep you from a love meant to last
fear it is also in  in my heart 
but i knew it was you from the start
cant promise it will always be grand
but i want you to understand 
my best ill always try 
never to make you cry
ill be your love ill be your friend
ill be beside you till the end

Premium MemberMarch 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.
Treasured strands of rope.
Welcome To the Big Dance.


It was a back-door deal.
ran through the lane.
Dish pass to low post
A Bunny Wins the game.

Premium MemberA 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 transformed 

  Now it's five years later
    Loyola's going nowhere fast
  But our fascination with Jean
    has yet to pass ... 

  Interviewed last week at 103
    She'd heard of a gal age 114
  Faced her audience squarely and insisted
    "Now that's just too darn old to be!"

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