Best Play Off Poems


Premium Member Tis the Season of Football

...All has come to an end, except for who to proclaim
The winner of The National College Football Championship Game

Excitement is brewing for the play-off game
Some will be at the game ......

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: play off, football, humorous,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Jordanesque In My Ballet

...I said you couldn’t hold me,
I told you I must scold thee.

Play tight and I will break free,
Play off and I must stroke three.

Twisting, writhing, jerking,
Shooting J’s and smirking.

You ......

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Categories: play off, passion, people, sports,
Form: Rhyme

Last-Minute Autumn

... dodoitsu series (rhymed) 

Winter is taking the reins
speeding past days of autumn -
Jack Frost smears the windowpanes
forefingers and thumb.

You who have no house to own,
too proud ......

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Categories: play off, 11th grade, home, winter,
Form: Dodoitsu

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Cafe Noir

...A man sinks his breath deep into a saxophone 
He fills a smoky room with its tenor tone
All the clichés are here 
From the femme fatale to the trodden tramp
The atmosphere borders on camp  
 Be ......

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Categories: play off, blue, cool, dark, drink,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member 2018 Fifa World Cup

...Excitement is brewing for the play-off game, 
who to claim a podium close-up fame, 
winner of 2018 21st FIFA World Cup's name.

Scheduling and planning their dream 
to cheer on their favorite te......

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: play off, football,
Form: Rhyme

It's Hard To Be a Rhymer In a Free-Verse World

...The "Rhymers" guild; archaic faction,
We garner all the more detraction
Less, are we, in our attraction
More, we are, the poetic infraction

When free is verse, a form accursed-
Murders Art, fetch fo......

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Categories: play off, art, poetry,
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member 2018 Fifa World Cup Croatia Vs England Semi-Final

...Heartbreak for England
Three Lions fight to the end-
Belgium play-off next.
Cinderella Croatia
Blazers' first World Cup Final......

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: play off, cinderella, england, football, international,
Form: Tanka

I Am the Project Air Bridge

...I am the Project Air Bridge, 
The veritable virus lord-cum-felon of duty fraud.
Fumaye's privileged his bridge that projects pompous airs.
Maelstrom, mammon coextend where it forks and fares.
Tra......

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Categories: play off, extended metaphor,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Break Those Chains

...You've tired to run so many times
You've tried to get away
From the demons breathing down your neck
Life doesn't have to be this way
You've heard that there's a God above
You wonder if He cares
......

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Categories: play off, freedom, god, life, love,
Form: Lyric

Premium Member A Play Off of a Short Story

...A frown 'pon his face_ bills, bills, 
                                                 into file thirteen 

As she cleans, empties the trash
        The unopened letter catches her eye
She p......

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Categories: play off, imagination,
Form: Free verse

Half Free and Fighting On

...Chicago – first in violence, city of potholes,
with no public parking and over taxed people;
loud, lawless, unlovely.
Half free and fighting on with corrupt government,
breaking its words, where ......

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Categories: play off, political,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Sentenced

...I wear my heart on paper
Ink fills my veins like blood
reviews cut like a razor
but I’m addicted to the pen.

I pump words with every heartbeat
I hoard paragraphs in my room
I take interjectio......

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Categories: play off, 11th grade, words, write,
Form: Free verse

Ghostly Shadow

...Do you know your shadow?
In darker times perhaps, my alternate host
Do you see it play off your role?
The way it dances to life like a wandering ghost

It only feels like someone to know
Shadow......

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© Joel Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: play off, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Blowing Play Off

...Joined a blowing team
We bowled once a week
Practised, practised all week
Big tournament coming soon
All my team mates members
Had gotten the high scores
I tried to do the same
To get a strike......

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Categories: play off, games,
Form: Sonnet

Morocco Football Team- the Pride of Africa

...Morocco at the 2022 World Cup,:
Morocco is the first African nation to reach the semi finals of FIFA World Cup tournament after 92 years and 49 attempts.
Morocco entered the World Cup as FIFA's 22n......

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Categories: play off, celebration, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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