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Best Nfl Poems

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Premium Member Rice Ain'T Nice and the Nfl Smells
Don't know 'bout you, but I'm in a stew
that Rice ain't nice and the NFL  smells.
Seems a shame, just  2 games
suspension for sending...

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Categories: nfl, sports, violence, women,
Form: Rhyme



The Afl-Nfl Championship Game
The first game was played in California;
LA Coliseum the arena.
Here, you may have a doubt.
The game was not sold out.
This is just some more useless...

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Categories: nfl, history, sports
Form: Limerick
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: nfl, 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
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: nfl, football,
Form: Rhyme



Running For My Life
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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Categories: nfl, uplifting
Form: Tanka
The Blessings of a New Beginning
In opposition to social injustice 
Colin Kapernick took a knee 
To bring national attention to 
Black American police brutality 
But an unexpected result was 
Eventually...

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Categories: nfl, blessing, faith, god,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Welcome February
First thing first! Grammys the 4th, Groundhog Day the second 
Emerge badger, shadow or no shadow s p r i n g is beckoned 
B...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nfl, february,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Football
Two opposing warring factions, meet upon the AstroTurf
Battlefield, in the sporting arena of Victory or agony’s defeated,
Warriors of the pigs skinned javelin, tackle each other...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nfl, america, football, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Unity Stated
UNITY STATED!

We are cool. 
We sweat.
We shoot.
We hit.
This is our game we play.
Yes, we are the American way.
	
We are fame.
We are the success.
We compete.
We project.
This...

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Categories: nfl, america, baseball, basketball, football,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grit and Guts On the Gridiron - 1
Mud and leather
dirt and nerve
bloodied laughter
collision to serve,
distance, drive and demolition
battle axe ambition in the wild air
muscle and mind joined in steeled instinct, 
a stitched...

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Categories: nfl, america, sports, war,
Form: Epic
High-Flying Receiver
Not all of the news apparently was true.
High-flying receiver, what happened to you?
A young pass catcher in the prime of his game,
gets cut from the...

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Categories: nfl, football, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tim Tebow
Tim Tebow
NFL football pro.
His love for Jesus sets him apart,
as he lives his faith with all his heart.

7/1/16...

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Categories: nfl, celebrity, faith,
Form: Clerihew
Walking Away
"Imagine"

You're at the top of your career  You spent years practicing and proving that you could be the very best,  if given a...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nfl, heartbreak,
Form: Narrative
New Orleans, Louisiana: Aka the Big Easy
What's go great about New Orleans, Louisiana, is that of its jazz music and its voodoo culture. The city has been known as "The Big...

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Categories: nfl, adventure, on writing and
Form: Ode

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