Best Backboard Poems

The south wind came and it blew so strong
it sent my backboard where it didn't belong

Busted and crooked it warped so much
from the Gods of...

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It had nothing to do with March Madness or the NCAA final championship game between Arkansas and Duke in 1994, but it was one great...

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Basketball Bob  

Slam dunk, arm is stuck
Reach up high toward backboard jumps
Basketball Bob scores
 
2/28/18...

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O'er the undulating prairie where grows soy beans and corn,
Generations of premier basketball players have been born.
The Hoosier State of Indiana, where budding talent is...

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We play this game each time we 
talk, in person or on the phone,

he is the backboard with the basket, 

I dribble on to find...

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Patrick Ewing
  What you chewing?

Larry Bird
  Hall-of-Fame assured

Scottie Pippen
  Lid's still flippin'

Tim Duncan
  Legacy hasn't sunk in

Bill Bradley
  Didn't play...

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37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first...

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Now I’m not a guy likes to dunk,
But this overseas backboard is junk.
For the costs I’ve incurred,
I should beat Larry Byrd,
Or hit a three-pointer, I’d...

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Long, winding gravel driveway
  decrepit old Mercury station wagon
    parked there
    doors unlocked
    those big...

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I don't know about you
but the seeming me abused and cursed
had all my birth fingers burnt off
at the first knuckle before the first lullaby
from too...

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My Throne

The golden emblem
On my throne
The tall and long backboard
Phased with pictures
And memories
The seat that holds
The power
My throne...

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Old Bolsanaro wishes he was, and takes strides to become, a fictional character as a way to promote more predictable backlash from his invasive, divisive...

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Imagine if a couplet traveled the world,
gaining an accent before moving on;
Repositioned from front to back twirled;

An old rhyme harnessed and hurled, 
finding a backboard...

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Hand's Up Dashing, Feat Moving, Ball Grasping .... Let's Soar!

Sound's Fill The Gymnasium, Nothing Blocks Our Chore!

Inside, Outside, .... Up And Down, Once, .... More!

Basket...

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