Best Medal Poems

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 dishonour Yourself....

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A HABITAT OF MODEL AND A MEDAL:  BAHAY KUBO

Our bahay kubo*
Is an achievement
And a dream come true
For us to dwell and live
On this simple hut
Whose inspiration I’ve drawn satisfaction
Indeed:  I had gotten: A model and a medal.

Why would I say this, a self-reverenge
A...

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stand on the podium
stand up for the crowd
you gold medal coffee maker
you champion toll collector
you safety food inspector

take a bow and wave to the people
you road-line painter
you lifetime dishwasher
the national anthem plays a
glory hallelujah salute to you

you topflight tire changer
pump me up! fire ranger,
you game...

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Gold medal

Since he was a child
Would pretend he won gold
And gets his medal
Being cheered by the world

 Wake up this morning
Is a young African 
He puts on his old shoes
Wants to be an Olympian

Running the dirt roads
He set him self a task
Hoping to accomplish
What others...

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The army awarded my son a medal.
"Extraordinary heroism," they said.
They handed it to me and not to him;
My hero-son is dead....

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Hello out there, Team Canada, don't be scared.....

It's gold medal fight, that Team USA wins tonight

And the whole world knows, CROSBY BLOWS! As the puck goes down the ice.

Luongo jumps, and the Americans bump, and the Canadians show disdain...

Someone roars: "RAFALSKI SCORES!", and Team USA...

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Medal of Honor Horn Haiku

God gave them glory
Presented by President
Medal of Honor

In life found much fame
And for it was recognized
To be seen by all.

This precise order
Always mission, men and me
Safe, sane and secure.

Brave, clean, reverent
Loyal, courteous, kind
Trustworthy, loyal.

Of obedience,
Also, cheerful as can be
For success in...

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It's both a man's and woman's ultimate dream
to be recognized and be forever exalted
as a champion for that glorious moment;
and it might be a self-induced greed:
to be determined the unforgettable winner,
while the crowds applaud with cheer!

" No medal, no glory! " everyone's motto should be...

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I saw on the TV yesterday
that you took home the bronze,
a woman who barely qualified,
whose odds were rather long.
You had the skate of your life,
with lutzes and salchows,
congratulations are in order,
this is your moment now.

And you who won the silver,
I understand your pain,
favored heavy to...

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He didn’t really meet Sally as such, more she met him. He was walking down the High street when she tapped him on the shoulder. I’m in a real hurry, but your brother Tom says he hid your medal under the shed, left-hand side in...

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To become good receiver requires your permission,
It’s hard to give aid to a life that needs nothing,
For some “to not have” can seem weakness admission,
And absence is suddenly made into something.

In love, I can choose to “need” all that you offer,
The fact that you offer...

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I knew you don't go in,
     But I wasn't coming out.
          When you're a fish in the fish bowl
     Going belly up....

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The pain and the success,
The aches and the medals,
The sweat before the shower,
Feeling weak where you once felt power.

The trips and the podiums,
The icy morns and the sunlit eves,
The strained pant before the joyous exhale,
A winning mentality to beat any fear of fail.

The disappointments and...

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From prehistoric stone there was sharpened a point then a spike:
chiselled and engraved and hoisted and thrust,
raised high above men toward a target lofty, afar in a field.

Competitors rose from primordial waters, 
harpooning dreams and dripping ambition,
tired and bruised but practiced and hopeful.

Javelin was once...

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Queen Bess's Uniform

We didn’t want the frostbite
We didn’t want the burns
We didn’t want to leave our homes
And families far astern.
We didn’t like the future
As we grimly sailed away
But we wore Queen Bess’s Uniform
And did it anyway.

We didn’t want the battle
Or the bayonets at night
We didn’t...

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