Best Sportsmanship Poems

It is not a conversation you overhear,
Like the questions rolling underfoot,
"Who goes there?".
You can see the grass has told
How tall to grow
To the chicory, dandelions and clover.
At the edge of the pitch
Where competition is stiff,
They grow bigger, taller and bolder;
Yet in each new match, every...

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Smile... Shake hands...

   Nice game...
 
      Taste defeat......

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Coach Belichick must have stumbled
New England gets the Jet’s jumbled
Game signals to read 
All exposed—was this deed
An interception play fumbled?...

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Two tennis pros at Wimbledon,
Competing stroke for stroke,
Played six hours plus and both
Were going, as they say, for broke.

Of course, at last it had to end;
My favorite, sadly, lost.
The winner, though, acknowledged
What the competition cost.

When interviewed, he shook his head
And then apologized
For seeming less enthused...

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In tight contests, 
                       their front acts of deceit,
              ...

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After curtain falls on game 
Win or lose, smile and shake hands 
Anything less than respect;
Just a crying shame!...

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An innocent game of release
                    made dirty by a devious trick
               ...

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He accidentally
Punch the referee
He bowed down to her level
And apologized his mistakes
He completely withdraw 
The physicality of the moment
Brought his anger to zero
And concerted it to humility
Changed his face, bowed his head
And made himself smaller and shorter than her....

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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  
The horse was...

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It’s the beginning of best tinker week! Get up! Let’s go! Wake up! Come on!
The rest of the family has already gone!
I jump out of bed, excited of course, who will be the fastest? The best at the fix?

We dash up to the town square,...

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There is a desperate bent in Men who lose,
A silent howl that seeks the lie to prove,
That She Loved Him, who otherwise did choose,
And shunned him! Seek with teaspoon seas to move,
And you, my friend, my silent fool, my boy
Will suffer for your faith, for...

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