Best Doping Poems
You Gotta Have Heart
...Tag words: advertising, bebop, bird, bottle, Charlie
Parker, Coca-Cola, Cole Porter, Dizzy Gillespie,
door, flag, heart, jazz, light bulb, Louis Armstrong,
Miles Davis, palette, Pepsi Cola, p......
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Categories:
doping, art,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Walk
...A bulging extremity,
a feminist integrity,
a swaggering centipede,
the cops arresting me,
my dick the right size,
the bang coming out of your eye's,
the sensitivity upon demise,
......
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Categories:
doping, graduation, growing up, heart,
Form:
Imagism
Of Doping and Lifetime Bans
...If Lance Armstrong isn’t King of Cheaters
He’s most certainly on the royal court
No soul to sell, that former world-beater
Poster boy for putting self before sport
The town’s old sheriff, aslee......
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Categories:
doping, character, sports, integrity,
Form:
Sonnet
Steroid Use
...People would do almost anything to make it to the top, even using steroids. This type of drug has been used by all would-be professional athletes and actual professional athletes since the 1980s, eve......
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Categories:
doping, health, on writing and
Form:
Epic
Boxer
...boxer
quick youth
roping doping dropping
the one armed ghost
champion......
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Categories:
doping, sports, time
Form:
Cinquain
Cheaters
...The world is filled with cheaters;
It almost seems the norm.
We hear of more examples found
In every shape and form:
A Scrabble competition where
A young man used his wiles
To sneak into the playing......
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Categories:
doping, introspection, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
He Was Both the Dope and the Hero
...Doping confessing by Lance Armstrong
Why tell the truth, when a lie can set you free
The sympathy card, the court jester: with slumbering tears
The windows wipers wipe the milky tears from his eye......
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Categories:
doping, dedication, depression, freedom, growing
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Lance Armstrong
...Lance expects forgiveness now
For coughing up the truth,
Even though the clues were there
For any paltry sleuth.
Confessing all on Oprah’s show,
He hopes to get on track,
Believing that the sport wo......
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Categories:
doping, people, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
She's Exceptional
...You seem smart, you look special,
You are unique, you are beautiful!
For the first time I am impressed,
For the first time I got influenced.
I could conceal my affection
When you left ......
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Categories:
doping, confusion, cute love, lost
Form:
Alliteration
Reality Check
...A kangaroo in dungarees hops hopefully
To win first prize in the Favs contest hot
On the heels of an enlightening glow worm
Surely life is no competition but the stage lights
Reverberates ......
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Categories:
doping, fashion,
Form:
Free verse
Acoa
...the Adult Children of Alcoholics
educated me a lot on my life
I have seen plenty of alcoholics
growing up with it stabs you like a knife
I once read in a book what certain traits
children of alcoho......
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Categories:
doping, family, father, recovery from...,
Form:
Sonnet
A Day In the Life 1957
...Standing here feeling the constancy of the trade winds blowing my hair around
I marvel at the bright whiteness of the birds flying in their madly screaming love of
life
Again I try to focus on on......
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Categories:
doping, history, flying,
Form:
Free verse
On the Cusp of Something Greater
...Back at home lazing like a bum
Like the doctor told me to do
A broken record sings its stilted tune
Never getting onto something new
Wonder what it's going to be like
When I'm back on my feet ......
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Categories:
doping, fear, growing up, leaving,
Form:
Lyric
Races
...(Note: This poem was written shortly after the 2022 Olympics and after Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos rode their rockets in a new space race for billionaires.)
Races
By ......
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Categories:
doping, black african american, discrimination,
Form:
Free verse
Lonly
...i am lonely..
forsaken neglected and unloved...
unspoken unseen and left out..
the whispers of depression..
the sights of stress..
believe me... listen to me..
i am dying slowly...
sun rises in the m......
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Categories:
doping, depression,
Form:
ABC