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Best Basketball Poems

Below are the all-time best Basketball poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of basketball poems written by PoetrySoup members

Basketball Lifestyle

Basketball
It's not a sport
It's a lifestyle
No one understands
What it means to play it
Not for the money
Not for the fame
But the love for the game
Basketball
Not a...

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Categories: basketball,
Form: Free verse

Basketball Is For Everybody

Telling blacks not to come to a basketball game.
That is such a racist remark and a shame.
Making such a comment is an absurdity.
In the professional...

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Categories: basketball, racism,
Form: Rhyme

Remember Me

Remember me...

A  fresh sweet scent

of  last gardenia

on yesterday's linen sheets

Remember me...

A cherry bud

in your backyard orchard

revealing  first pink shades

in once upon a...

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Categories: baseball, basketball, blue,
Form: Free verse

God Bless America

In the courts of sport and entertainment
They have forgotten the scales of justice
Lacking honor for those who gave life and limb
Sacrificing blood, and buried with...

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Categories: america, basketball, death, dedication,
Form: Free verse

Rub a Dub Dub

JEANIEMAC
Rub a dub dub two in a tub.
Where did the soap go?
He lay back flat
Right on his back.
While she fiddled about below.

TIM SMITH
Rub a dub...

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Categories: basketball, beauty, friendship,
Form: Limerick

While You Sleep

While you sleep I tell you all of the things I keep inside throughout day.
Now that you can hear but not listen I find them...

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Categories: basketball, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure,
Form: Lyric

Dad's Last Ball Game

Being the shortest in my high school gym class
Attempts to play basketball brought no success
Broke my finger while trying to catch a pass
Leaping to take...

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Categories: father, sportsdad, basketball, dad,
Form: Quatrain

Future Superstar

The world welcomes a newborn baby boy. 
To the mother and father, he is a bundle of joy. 
Right now of course, he is so...

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Categories: baby, basketball, football, future,
Form: Rhyme

Beautiful People

People make me smile the way 
their eyes shine when they talk 
about something they love 
when they feed me food. Or tell 
me how...

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Categories: basketball, absence, addiction, age, allegory,
Form: Prose Poetry

Message From My Daughter

So… during basketball season… our manager, Anna,
             would sit by me on the...

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Categories: daughterme, basketball, me,
Form: Prose Poetry

Pink Kitty Cats

Cats all around
Playing with the yarn
So cute and pink...

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Categories: angst, basketball, black african
Form: Free verse

Haiku For An Apple Mac

This gray Apple Mac,
is it true that i use it,
or does it use me?...

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Categories: allegory, appreciation, baseball, basketball,
Form: Haiku

Divinity

I have wasted 
too many years 
of my young life
wishing I had been
blessed with
a different story.
I am learning 
that all life 
is precious,
and that each...

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Categories: america, anger, bangla, basketball,
Form: Bio

In the Zone - Feeling It

The rim of the basket
   as wide as the ocean
The shot leaves his hand --
   poetry in motion...

Years later his pen's...

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Categories: basketball, fire, poetry, water,
Form: Rhyme

A True Champion

"A True Champion"
by:  Eric L. Boddie

Knowing you were 24 when you also retired an eight
Only one g.o.a.t. in my Lifetime has achieved that fate
Be...

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Categories: appreciation, basketball, career, celebration,
Form: Narrative