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Best Basketball Player Poems

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


Premium Member Lego Narcs - Under the Cover of Night

Night! 
It’s around nine thirty 
maybe ten. 

The phone rings. 
The voice is irritating, the words frightening.

Within minutes I’m in a car with my mate....

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Categories: basketball player, abuse, angst, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Obama Rhapsody - Potd
His full given name is Barack Hussein Obama
The etymology of his first name, "Baraka," a Swahili word meaning "Blessed"


      It's...

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Categories: basketball player, appreciation, celebrity, perspective, political,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Everything Is Always For the Best
Why the long face, son? Did someone die?
   Aw, Dad.  I flunked my math exam
Did you do your level best, son?
 ...

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Categories: basketball player, father son, inspirational, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Swagger Daggers---Hooked On Ebonics, Vol 1
*written for Verlena's Contest "EBONICS, Let's Do Some Slang"


SHAWTY,

Yir' boy fin' ta' told ya' bout some lessons in what the Man call Ebonics.
Cus' I gots'...

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Categories: basketball player, africa, america, basketball, crazy,
Form: Free verse
My Two Sports
I have two favorite sports.
On a stage and the b.ball court!
       That's right, I'm a basketball player.
A bonafide rhyme...

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Categories: basketball player, fantasy, inspirational, sportsbasketball, spoken
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Swoosh, Swish
An ingenious device is a basketball net:
  Swish, swoosh, swoosh, swish---
      Its sweet sound made
    ...

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Categories: basketball player, basketball, language, light, onomatopoeia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bad Upbringing
When I take my nephew
to the park to play basketball,
I look around to spot trolls
who litter and destroy.
" Look at those hoodlooms,
how they behave and...

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Categories: basketball player, best friend, drug, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
New York City Make Me Crazy
Yo Yo New York City make me crazy and i am cool man and i am rap and people think i am cool rap walk...

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Categories: basketball player, america, basketball, celebration, funny,
Form: ABC
Harry Brown
Harry was born on the 20th June 1994,
And is a wheelchair basketball player, 
Who at the 2012 Paras was the barer, 
Of the Paralympic Flag,...

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Categories: basketball player, basketball, sports, strength,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Basketball
Hey! This one is my melodramatic mom’s!
One thing I have realised: No one else in the world can ever be more loving than one’s mom....

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Categories: basketball player, basketball, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Totem -- Odom
A basketball player named Odom
Wants to dribble the balls in his scrotum
   He tries to bounce them
   Hardwood boards renounce them
Odom...

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Categories: basketball player, humorous, sports,
Form: Limerick
Jonathan Broom-Edwards
Tall as they come, this man is 1 metre 85,
A basketball player inspired by the 2012s,
To compete in disability sport so to thrive, 
At the...

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Categories: basketball player, basketball, body, health, sports,
Form: Quatrain
Ade Orogbemi
Ade is a 2.5 wheelchair basketball player, 
Who was born in Lagos in Nigeria in 1978,
His home town is Liverpool, a Mersey sayer,
In Spain club...

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Categories: basketball player, basketball, sports, strength,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member What's Love Got To Do With It
I started out life as Anna Mae Bullock,                 ...

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Categories: basketball player, child, cry, hurt, music,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Controversy
Controversy is a state of a dispute or a real disagreement. Controversy also occurs when
the media's involved. It seems that when there's a lot of...

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Categories: basketball player, epic
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Shattered Sighs