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Basketballs Poems - Poems about Basketballs

Premium Member Summerku's
...THE BEACH sand between your toes sun tanners' bath on the beach swimmers in the sea THE PLAYGROUND children on the swings chasing dogs- after squirrels chalk made- hopscotch FIS......

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Categories: basketballs, summer,
Form: Haiku
Victim
...Feet Basketballs Jaundice, his words lost A victim of cirrhosis Gone ......

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Categories: basketballs, addiction, death, grief, loss,
Form: Other



My Missing Muse
...My Missing Muse I have tried to write as of late, but my mind has become a true blank slate. My keyboard is bored and my ideas are bland. I have to think of something grand. Lately I lack ......

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Categories: basketballs, poems, writing,
Form: Rhyme
The Old Guys
...Written By: D. Collins 5/9/24 A triple-knee crack and a hip not ready to move. Are signs an OG (old guy) should hand over his tools. <......

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Categories: basketballs, youth,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Children's Poems I
...These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. The Desk by Michael R. Burch for Jeremy There is a child......

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Categories: basketballs, child, childhood, children, family,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Small Town Samhain
...“Baby, win me a prize at the county fair.” The smell of funnel cake mingles with the metallic scent of rickety rides. The smoke billowing in the air accents my chills but I still want to be stuck......

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Categories: basketballs, anxiety, emotions, fear, feelings,
Form: Haibun
The Balls: A Parody of Poe's the Bells
...I Hear the bouncing of the balls-- Basketballs! What a sound of merriment they cause when each ball falls! How they echo, echo, echo, Inside the gymnasium walls, Arriving at a crescendo......

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Categories: basketballs, 11th grade, basketball, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Schools Have It Backwards
...Kicking and hitting used to be unusual in a classroom. In many classrooms it is same-oh-same-oh these days. Icy screams that raise hair on your neck are becoming normal. Sadly, parents are not in ......

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Categories: basketballs, school,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member First Basketball Games
...First basketballs were discarded peach baskets With their full bottoms in them Soccer balls were used Officials had this dubious job Had to climb a ladder to remove the ball After each basket F......

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Categories: basketballs, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Kids Did
...Compared with us, the kids today Too little play and too much weigh. Alone indoors they snack and sit And buttons hit, while we stayed fit. We'd quickly chores and homework do, Then dash th......

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Categories: basketballs, children, fun, growing up,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Balls
... Hard balls, soft balls Hiding on the loft balls Red balls, white balls Feeling feather light balls Big balls, small balls Hitting on the wall balls Golf balls, tennis balls Plastic table......

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Categories: basketballs, fun, word play,
Form: List
Premium Member Abandoned
...It’s empty now - No matter how. Blank windows stare, Stripped and bare. No step upon the dusty stair, No one to care. The only sound Wind moaning ‘round The crumbling eaves All choked with l......

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Categories: basketballs, absence, house, loneliness, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Frat Boys
...Bosom best-buddy Beta Beta Beta boys begin bonding by bringing before biennial brunches: bouncier basketballs budget bean burritos bounteous beefy burgers beautiful broad-minded busty bo......

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Categories: basketballs, boy, brother, food, fun,
Form: Alliteration
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers Ii
...Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers II All Things Galore by Michael R. Burch for my grandfathers George Edwin Hurt Sr. and Paul Ray Burch, Sr. Grandfather, now in your gray presence ......

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Categories: basketballs, family, father, father daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Children
...Poems about Children The Desk by Michael R. Burch for Jeremy There is a child I used to know who sat, perhaps, at this same desk where you sit now, and made a mess of things sometimes.......

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Categories: basketballs, boy, child, childhood, children,
Form: Rhyme

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