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Best Football Poems

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Best Football Poems

Premium Member Football, Beer, His Car and Kid
-The Same Old SongS-

That's all he ever talks about 


~SKAT~...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: football, abuse, addiction, brother, family,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Johnny Football
At Texas A & M, he played at quarterback.
The young man led a prolific offensive attack.
He gave up his last two years at college.
Apparently, he...

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Categories: football,
Form: Rhyme
Life Is Like Football
It took just a moment
A single concentration lapse
And down the drain,Bayern's effort went
Whilst Messi enjoyed the claps


Life is like a football game
As dicey as a...

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Categories: football, art,
Form: Didactic

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Just Like Football I Am Waiting ,
Just like football I am waiting ,
on the side line,
To go up on the field,
Yes we are playing Goodooga,
Aboriginal big guys, tough as steel.

Here comes...

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Categories: football, adventureme,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Craze During Football Game
CRAZE DURING FOOTBALL GAME

Up yellows; greens; reds and blue,
tell me! Tell me, who is through?
Passes. Crosses. Headers. Shots.
Volleys, blasters, more scissor kicks
tell me! Tell me,...

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Categories: appreciation, football, love, sports,
Form: Blank verse
Humility In America
It's said 100 million Americans watched the Superbowl, which like a religious event is held on Sunday. I wonder if 100 million Americans have ever...

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Categories: appreciation, football, god, humanity,
Form: Prose



World Cup
Our heroes roar
There they are
Flags held high
Voices raised too high
Eyes raised so high
Heads up in the sky
The spirit of football so much
They are our heroes
To...

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Categories: football, games, nostalgia, soccer,
Form: Verse
Game Day
Mighty Ducks win the game
Pass the ball perfect the play
There's so much riding on your fame
Men clad in armor win the day

The crowds are grumbling...

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Categories: football,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member 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
Premium Member Super Bowl Day
They're playing in the bowl tomorrow
and we are so very proud.
We Seahawk fans are loyal
and also very loud.
We'll be settled by our TV sets
before the...

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Categories: football,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Dallas Cowboys
THE DALLAS COWBOYS

Can you not hear the rumblings of that distant herd coming,
The loud thundering of destiny’s champions crossing, the NFL
Field of dreams, beware the...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dedication, football, heart, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Superbowl Sunday
There’s a new American Holiday, guess what it is my football loving friends,
It’s a classical sport of champions, where helmet headed, game geared
Warriors challenge raw...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adventure, conflict, football, history,
Form: Free verse
The Rams
Royal blue and gold
needs to return to sunny
Los Angeles now!...

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© Jim Tidd  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: football,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member From First Ball To World Cup
I remember the first time I saw a ball,

Those exquisite black and white pentagons ...
     The geometric excellence that intimated such...

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Categories: childhood, football, soccer, sports,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Religious Man
I sat in church listening to the preacher
Without hearing a single word he said
I was thinking about the football scores
And my favorite team instead

As they...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: life, god, football, god,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things