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Best Slam Dunk Poems

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Premium Member Slam Dunk
I suppose that I'll never understand


     Why one would pen slam for foe or friend


      ...

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Categories: slam dunk, on writing and wordsslam,
Form: Limerick



Future Superstar
The world welcomes a newborn baby boy. 
To the mother and father, he is a bundle of joy. 
Right now of course, he is so...

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Categories: slam dunk, baby, basketball, football, future,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Contest Battles
CONTEST BATTLES

I am a child in weaving poetry,
trying and trying my arms of bravery.
Hundreds, I posted to jail your eyes
to cease a moment; raise your...

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Categories: slam dunk, feelings, freedom, poetry, words,
Form: Rhyme
Racking, Fracking, Frickers, Dickers
Racking, fracking, fricker dickers -
there it goes again stirring all my inner jitters; 
my pc, tablet, phone and friends
blank screens locked immovable in place again
while...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slam dunk, allusion, analogy, internet,
Form: Rhyme
Pontiac Middle School All Stars
Promo

Point guards and shooting guards
     On the floor
No visiting team hits 
     or scores
If a shoot is...

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Categories: slam dunk, character, confidence, future, meaningful,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Basketball Bob
Basketball Bob  

Slam dunk, arm is stuck
Reach up high toward backboard jumps
Basketball Bob scores
 
2/28/18...

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Categories: slam dunk, basketball, celebration, celebrity,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member A Worth While Wednesday
Major misery must have been mounting on Monday.
The traffic jam miraculously DIDN'T end until terrific Tuesday.
The traffic at 4pm was winding way westward which was...

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Categories: slam dunk, anxiety, basketball, car, celebration,
Form: Alliteration
You Da Bomb
Well, there is only one way to say this
the best one man can
to put this down in words
to explain it to you my woman...

Okay, you're...

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Categories: slam dunk, desire, humor, love,
Form: Free verse
Daddy
The first man in your life,
who would carry you upstairs,
and tuck you in.

He scared away the monsters
under the bed,
and closed the closet door
to keep the...

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Categories: slam dunk, daughter, father, love, nostalgia,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Amateur Haircut
Sometimes just a trim; others, a drastic clip;
around-the-world trip with one mighty snip.
	
Children and scissors together, tempt fate;
by the time you check, it's already too...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slam dunk, children, granddaughter, hair,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Violets Are Blue
“Violets are Blue” 

In this new space
you came in fast
like a meteor
I hesitate to say
you were smooth

in this new space
no one can hear 
the sound...

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Categories: slam dunk, blue, humor, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Triple Helix From the Hip
"Triple Helix from the Hip"

Triple helix
stanzas 
strung together

like pearls 
wisdom worn 
and swallowed

like a pill
sweet and 
bitter

they evolve
those others
from their bad dreams

like poetry 

cradling their...

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Categories: slam dunk, muse, poetry, psychological,
Form: Narrative
How a Cowboy Loves, Part Ii
...The last day they rode slowly back,
still giving each other naughty looks,
a love affairs go, theirs was intense,
truly one for the record books.
Merrick hesitated to...

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Categories: slam dunk, depression, heartbreak, loss, love,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member Mickey Loves B Ball
Mickey plays basketball in his free time,
He has a very cool slam dunk as well.
When he is shooting hoops, he feels sublime.
As Minnie watched him...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slam dunk, basketball, friendship,
Form: Pantoum
Youtuber
Youtuba
love it mate  get on youtube and relate,
johnson did an he's no kid,
just the one  to esasperate?

me youtube on johnsondon2 you'l find, ...

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Categories: slam dunk, adventure,
Form: Ballad

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