Best Medalist Poems


Lost Souls
...Lost souls deepen black holes…
Broken cries…muted forever lies back and forth on ya mind…
Tears of peroxide burns your polluted dilated eyes…
True hermit of life…no one by ya side…your alone and ya m......

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Categories: medalist, people, song-urban,
Form: Lyric
David Henson
...David can often be seen hot on the trail, 
Of Richard Whitehead, sprinter, runner, 
And was reported in Rio de Janero’s mail, 
As the 200m bronze medalist, stunner.

He went to St George Catholi......

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Categories: medalist, courage, health, patriotic, race,
Form: Quatrain
Risen From the Mud
...A tribute to Sri Lanka Gold medalist  Susanthika 
 

A  Lotus bud was hidden in the mud of a jungle stream 

Dark skin, curly hair
Black mare runs
Against the wind
Across the fields
On the rocks
In t......

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Categories: medalist, girl,
Form: Free verse

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Paul Davies
...Paul played table tennis as part of his rehab, 
So accepted an invitation to ‘Come and Try’, 
Which saw him selected for a German contest, 
To represent Wales ‘cos he’s from Cardiff fab.  

That......

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Categories: medalist, sports, strength,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Lee Pearson
...Lee Pearson is a para-equestrian athlete, 
Because in horse jumping he does compete, 
And has arlthrogryposis multiplex congenita,
Which he was born with in 1974, not bitter.

He’s a ten-times p......

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Categories: medalist, animal, body, courage, health,
Form: Heroic Couplet
When Dreams Met the Eiffel Tower
...
A dream for many a watch for some  
The Olympic journey, Here it comes!!  
It was in Paris, few days ago  
It rushed a shiver from the head to the toe.  

Flags carried through the Seine river......

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Categories: medalist, appreciation, celebration, hockey, inspiration,
Form: Narrative


Premium Member Northern Territory Bores
...There is a large cattle property in the Northern Territory of Australia
   where the bores are named after Famous cricketers and that prompted 
    this piece.

                      Northern Ter......

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Categories: medalist, sports, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Harriet Lee
...Harriet has Beckwith-wiedemann syndrome, 
Something which shortened her right side, 
And she also his difficulty with blood sugar, 
But she’s a dog lover of Baya Bear and Bow. 

Born in Huntingt......

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Categories: medalist, sports, strength,
Form: Blank verse
Homecoming of An Alumnus
...Like a restless dog haunted by a place
where it vaguely recalls having buried
        long ago something personally precious,
        he keeps coming back with the seasons
        to this campus ......

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Categories: medalist, time
Form: Free verse
Claire Cashmore
...Claire was born disabled, no left forearm, 
And at school hid it well under her jumpers,
But swimming let her accept, love her body, 
Such that today she’s a swimming medalist. 

Born in Redditc......

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Categories: medalist, sports, strength,
Form: Blank verse
Jodie Grinham
...Jodie is a law student born in Telford, 
Living in Tilford, so she happily attends,
Lillishall Nat. Sports & Conference Centre, 
And was born on the 26th July in 1993.

When her dad became ill, ......

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Categories: medalist, body, desire, health, pride,
Form: Blank verse
Time and Chance
...Merit was always the gold medalist
Then came the shrewd unconcerned capitalist
Who endeared and sold to many the cheap thrill
At jaw-dropping prices reserved only for mastery and skill
And I agre......

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Categories: medalist, time,
Form: Rhyme
Josef Craig
...This man loves Newcastle United football club, 
And has overcome Graves’ disease thyroidal, 
By having an op to remove that deathly snub, 
Of his prowess in the swimming pool brutal. 

He won a ......

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Categories: medalist, body, health, sports, success,
Form: Quatrain
Tower of Her Love
...Wind of wind haste among the sky pen point the sculpture now close one eyes

A build a house among the sea sit among captivate like bronze to a medalist

To smile a pond a river and to found shad......

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Categories: medalist, art, love,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Gold Medalist
...A young star athlete in Tokyo
Was born with crippling polio
He overcame the stress
By swimming his best
He now has gold in his portfolio. 

written July 24, 2021......

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Categories: medalist, humorous,
Form: Limerick
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