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Sports Basketball Poems

These Sports Basketball poems are examples of Basketball poems about Sports. These are the best examples of Basketball Sports poems written by international poets.

Premium Member Defining Certain Sports
  Basketball's  considered a 'contact sport'
    Football is a 'sport of collision'

  Hunting animals 'for sport'
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Categories: animal, basketball, football, how

Premium Member Basketball
basket

shooting

three pointer

nothing but net

victory
...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: basketball, boy, games, hero,
Premium Member Iowa 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...

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Categories: basketball, sports,
Premium Member Our Games Define Us
Our games define us, who we are
    by which ones are most popular

  First comes football, all blood and gore*
 ...

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Categories: basketball, football, games, race,
Five On the Floor
Five on the floor, five and more
And they're dancing to the show
One and done, over and won
As the march to madness goes

Game on, and the...

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Categories: basketball, heartbreak, magic, sports,

Three-Point Shot
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...

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Categories: basketball, sports, success,
Three Point Shot
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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Categories: basketball, devotion, passion, sports,
Premium Member Sweet Victory

Fists clinched 
On the edge of victory
Like a thunderous rain storm
The crowd leaps to their feet
A three point shot
Spinning upward
Suspended in time
And in a moment...

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Categories: basketball, sports,
Premium Member Basketball
A good player in six feet tall
So expert to catch and dribble
Before shooting smartly that ball
A good player in six feet tall
For long range throws...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: basketball, sports,
The Athlete
A brawly guy
A woman sighs
He gives a wink
It makes you think

He goes to the gym
At sports he'll always win
He often dates
And never waits

He goes online
Occasionally...

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© Lynn D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: basketball,
Premium Member Sporting Trends
Have you noticed how technology
    Is more pervasive in the world of sports?
From the equipment to the playing fields,
   ...

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Categories: baseball, basketball, football, sports,
Author's Notes
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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Categories: appreciation, basketball, conflict, football,
Best Sports Poems V
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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Categories: america, baseball, basketball, boxing
Best Sports Poems Iv
The best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part IV

King Henry the Great
by Michael R. Burch

Long live the King! 
Send him victorious, 
happy and glorious,...

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Categories: america, baseball, basketball, boxing
Best Sports Poems Iii
These are the best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part III

For Jack Nicklaus, at the 1987 Open
by Michael R. Burch

When you were young
every putt...

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Categories: america, baseball, basketball, boxing

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