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Best Gold Medal Poems

Below are the all-time best Gold Medal poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of gold medal poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Worshipping In Nature's Sanctuary
Johnny-Jump-Ups nestle into the forest floor mosses,
Along with dainty Jack-in-the-Pulpits hiding beneath
The larger fronds of swampy ferns soaking up moisture
From the dew-laden flowering branches of...

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Categories: gold medal, inspirational, nature, paradise, peace,
Form: Blank verse



Race the Finals Spoken Word
I wish to
Relay
To all of my people the importance of sticking together as a 
team

And that
Because we have run 
through the preliminary trials as selfish...

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Categories: gold medal, africa, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sports Limerick
There once was an Olympic swimmer
Who accidently ate Viagra for dinner
His Speedo grew tight
He was awarded that night
A gold medal as the pole-vault winner...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gold medal, funny
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Giving Love a Chance - An Introduction
(A Correspondence Course for Anyone Who Would Be Loved 
by Someone Like Me)

Of course, it is clear; you deserve to be loved,
But your 'romances' so...

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Categories: gold medal, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Harry Chapin - Story of a Life
I’m about to tell what’s an important story,
Of a singer who is sadly now long gone,
Whose story needs some increased recognition,
He could p’raps be described...

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Categories: gold medal, poverty,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Make America Great Again
Do not think me overly confident
Because I believe the obvious fact?
Do I come across as arrogant
Because I have thought processes you lack?

Do not yourself be...

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Categories: gold medal, patriotic, political,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Sweet Rose
“Of all flowers, methinks a rose is best.” – William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen

Sweet Rose, for ages you have blessed the human race
with your...

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Categories: gold medal, rose,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Halloween - Repost
The hallowed evening is deafeningly here
Goblins and witches' loud shrieks are near,
Shelled corn raining down our outer wall
Our whimpering dog is cringing in the hall,
Some...

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Categories: gold medal, halloween,
Form: Couplet
An Athlete's Poem
It takes a lot of time to master such skill
There are lot of downtimes but I climb on my hill
There are days that my body...

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Categories: gold medal, baseball, basketball, boxing day ,
Form: Rhyme
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...

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Categories: gold medal, character, sports, integrity,
Form: Sonnet
The Olympic Medal
The Olympic Medal

To be given a gold medal
You have to win the gold medal
To take drugs and cheat
Is winning without merit
To dishonour the olympics
Is to...

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Categories: gold medal, sports, drug,
Form: Free verse
Black Like Me
Brothers do you hate me
Because you’re black like me
And when you look in the mirror
It is me you see

You appear to forget
And instead reject
Your uncle’s...

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© Dana Black  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gold medal, black african american, race,
Form: Rhyme
Once Upon a Ego
Once upon a time there never was an Ego
For it was alive by the breath of wishes of those who were suffocating from it
I carried...

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Categories: gold medal, character, encouraging, growth, how
Form: Epic
Elegy 'N' Eulogy For Mohammed Ali Clay
A very famous champion,
 an inspiring enthusiastic man was he
Who has  now departed , yet is quoted, 
for many pearls of wisdom
Vociferous king , 
of...

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Categories: gold medal, boxing day , eulogy, goodbye,
Form: Elegy
Underdogs Have Their Days
Well, well, well!
The whole world knows by now, impossible dreams can come true,
In the game of professional soccer, it has just been proven at Leicester,
Starting...

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Categories: gold medal, appreciation, community, encouraging, football,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things