Best Football Player Poems

A football player
A football player, whose name is Paul
Spent hours playing with his ball.
He’s won a prize with his team
And it wasn’t  a night...

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College party red cups  all across the room.
we caught each others eye.
Inbetween  dances  if eyes were a camera they'd 
be caught in...

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A teen when Mom died

Five young brothers and sisters

Dunn supported them

Pro football player with heart

Started running for his life


Written for Brian Strand’s Ekphrasis contest. ...

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NOTE:  A young college football player who plays for a team that I follow was seriously hurt this 
past weekend.  I wrote this...

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revelation of revelations!
an ordinary morning til..
discovery of discoveries 
brittle chrysalis
upside down, branching
breathing, pulsing
I pause and
inspect the
pupa’s fortress
tight and hard as 
childhood memories of
milkweed pods 
splaying,...

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A cuddlesome babe when
The norther came
Wind-brushed cheeks,
She cried.


Mama pulled over a blanket on her face,
Ducked her own snooded head
Walked toward home
And warmth.


Off to school another...

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A football player named Zay
Made an exceptional play.
The ref called it flaunting, 
But I thought it quite daunting.
Can't a guy celebrate a great day?...

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Fifty years, boy and man, I’ve been a Sooners fan;
And watched thousands of recruits try to make my Sooners Team.
Often, I’ve enviously wondered what it...

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Team players shake hands good luck
Shoot scores the hockey puck
The soccer player kicks the ball 
The sky diver takes the fall 
The football player must...

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When blackness turns into light

Society could not deny
what we saw
with our own two eyes.

We saw blackness
turn into light
soulful stars
illuminating
white nights.

Jackie was a pioneer
his love lifted...

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Other men wonder how I make women mesmerize
Bigger than most men similar to football player size
I begin to share my secret and they still don’t...

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THE DIVORCE
Your stinging absence from us dad
Has for us kids been very bad
Coping with our fatherly loss
Has really been, nothing to floss
Picking all the pieces...

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Did you ever want something so bad 
you can taste it?
But nothing compares to what God is giving you and will give you
His gift is...

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Moment Of Silence For Junior Seau: May 5th, 5:55 P.M.
People can take pills, run their car off the road, 
And that's a cry for help,...

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Newsflash
     New the Jewish New Year
     Ike Davis hits 2 home runs
Newsflash
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