Sports Basketball Poems

  Our games define us, who we are
    by which ones are most popular

  First comes football, all blood and...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Have you noticed how technology
    Is more pervasive in the world of sports?
From the equipment to the playing fields,
   ...

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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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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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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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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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Basketball tip off at grade school game
My biggest lifetime shot at fame
Got the ball and took off
Heard the yells from aloft
Wrong way I went but...

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