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Best Sportsman Poems

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Home Sportsman
I'm a home sportsman
And what a career I've had,
Watching sports around the globe,
I take the good with the bad.

I have to keep my fitness up
So...

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Categories: sportsman, funny, sports,
Form: Rhyme



The Night Before Deer Season
Twas the night before deer season
and all through the town
all the hunters were campin';
there was no one around.

The guys weren't all snuggled 
and warm in...

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Categories: sportsman, america, animal, autumn, culture,
Form: Narrative
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: sportsman, america, football, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
My Father's Cleats
It’s funny how my father’s hobby became mine. He has been a sportsman all his life, he played basketball, volleyball and softball all his youth,...

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Categories: sportsman, childhood, family, father, history,
Form: Free verse
Who Am I
One minute, one hour, one day, one life
The same face, the same eyes
Ask this baby born what does he want to be
When a grown man...

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Categories: sportsman, daughter, depression, family, growing
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Dick's Club
Dick was a guy with a suave golf club
Who only used it to eat his grub
Sportsman he portrayed
Golf he should have played
For now he cannot...

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Categories: sportsman, funny, sports,
Form: Limerick
Elegy 'N' Eulogy For Mohammed Ali Clay
A very famous champion,
 an inspiring enthusiastic man was he
Who has  now departed , yet is quoted, 
for many pearls of wisdom
Vociferous king , 
of...

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Categories: sportsman, boxing day , eulogy, goodbye,
Form: Elegy
The Humble Samaritan
Our loving sportsman, Sen. Pacman
Never missed a chance of being a samaritan
His humility and hard work earned him great reputation
And yet his whole body endured...

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Categories: sportsman, anti bullying, boxing day ,
Form: Clerihew
Sportsmans Wife
Ladies, if you marry a sportsman that loves the outdoors be ready for some beautiful gifts
On your birthday, a new rifle or fishing pole, how...

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© Sports Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sportsman, giving, husband, wife,
Form: Free verse
Englishman, Jackadandy, Spy
He made no move at all 
As the alarm clock went off. 
But ten minutes later, 
It was obvious he was awake. 
He lifted himself...

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Categories: sportsman, clothes, england, fashion, london,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Football
FOOTBALL

     Playing in a team,
     kicking football in vigor,
     captain controlling.
  ...

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Categories: sportsman, 10th grade, appreciation, games,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Too Late For Amends
For T. Ganesan (1931-1985)

It is as though an unjust hand punished you
As if the Adlerian guiltless position in the constellation wasn't enough
   ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sportsman, family, father, father,
Form: Free verse
50 Shades of Gay
Now pick apart
My S E X U A L I T Y
and tell me these traits
That must define me.
From my heads to my tippy toes
Am...

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Categories: sportsman, funny, truth,
Form: I do not know?
Twinkle Not Little Star
Thariq 
Is to be up on Sky glittering as a star
But his fate his name to be with his birth registrar 

Thariq 
Not of tricks...

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Categories: sportsman, blessing, caregiving, character, child
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Siluroid
I am the prize catch
I live in an artificial lake
	fed by a nappe phréatique
I was put there to keep 
	lesser fish: carp
   ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sportsman, devotion,
Form: Imagism

Book: Shattered Sighs