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
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
Obama Rhapsody - PotdHis 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
Everything Is Always For the BestWhy 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 SportsI 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
Swoosh, SwishAn 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
Bad UpbringingWhen 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 CrazyYo 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 BrownHarry 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
BasketballHey! 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
Totem -- OdomA 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-EdwardsTall 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 OrogbemiAde 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
Categories:
basketball player, child, cry, hurt, music,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
ControversyControversy 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