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Basketball Game Poems - Poems about Basketball Game

Keeping Score
...The bartender strolls from one end of the counter to the other. She makes small talk with regulars who watch NFL games on screens and a college basketball game plays on another. For each touchd......

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Categories: basketball game, baseball, basketball, culture, football,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member His Name Was Reuben
...I once knew a man who was tall and skinny. I was 35 at the time with a small family. If he had a family of his own. I knew not any. His means was menial and his needs were many. For this man, we ......

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Categories: basketball game, christian, god, humanity,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member My Friend Bobby
...As I reminisce decades past, it's like a dream with lanes. One lane takes me down a strange path of years taken. Childhood years of sadness, empty spaces, broken pieces. Taken, lost childhood year......

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Categories: basketball game, childhood, friendship,
Form: Verse
Cold Day
...It was very cold outside. I had a basketball game we tied. I went to go eat some turkey. I saw the pool; it was frozen and murky.......

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Categories: basketball game, 10th grade,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member I Was Thinking
...Today, I'm thinking about a man name Zack. When he was young, Zack thought a lot about 'tomorrow'. He tried hard to put 'today' behind him and forget about it. 'Yesterday' seemed inconsequential a......

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Categories: basketball game, friendship, remember,
Form: Narrative



You First
...You First Been missed You too keep notice Been away why? You to the soonest Every moment to clap ...Once more, I am a... Tall human you never saw As in every basketball game i g......

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Categories: basketball game, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Bagel Flamed Out
...Here's a tale of a white Chevy Corvair, I car I'll never forget Repossessed from a gypsy, I'd be willing to bet... On a cold, snowy winter night, February 1968 This 'bagel' was to drive th......

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Categories: basketball game, basketball, car, fire, teen,
Form: Rhyme
Distension's Tension
...I can remember a February away back in nineteen seventy-four 'Twas a first meeting of my family and my intended whom I'd spoken for. Two hour ride to Kentucky's western part with a basketball......

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Categories: basketball game, 11th grade, engagement, family,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Day After
...Why do I always get the news the day after? Is somebody up above watching out for me? I can almost hear what sounds a little like laughter Every time I find out I escaped misery. It all started......

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Categories: basketball game, writing,
Form: Rhyme
basketball game
...Won......

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Categories: basketball game, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Don'T Turn the Ball Over
...M-ake no mistake in life, E-ven in a basketball game; R-emain in the right path, L-ittle error can tarnish Y-our name. B-all is in your hands O-ctober twenty-ninth day; N-either arm will......

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Categories: basketball game, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Imperfect Storm Ends In a Rainbow
...In 1958 Elmer's was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They roared when the ......

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Categories: basketball game, race,
Form: Prose
Basketball Brief
...Good basketball game! The Brooklyn team actually won! I take joy in that......

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Categories: basketball game, basketball,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member They'Re Tearing Down Saint Ann's
...They're tearing down Saint Ann's As I shed a nostalgic tear Part of my childhood gone Where I spent my sophomore year It was September of sixty one Our very first week of class It was only a sh......

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Categories: basketball game, nostalgia, school, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Epigram Couplet Contest
...Epigram Couplet Contest Sponsor: Silent One Belly ache when the basketball game had started, I was shooting a lay up, and accidentally farted! Written: November 21, 2015......

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Categories: basketball game, basketball, funny, silly,
Form: Epigram

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