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Best Sportsmen Poems

Below are the all-time best Sportsmen poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sportsmen poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Outlander
I am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and...

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Categories: sportsmen, change, childhood, community, history,
Form: Ballad



Carnage Caused By Vanity
Above the clouds are buffalo aplenty
Shot by whites as Native Americans cried
The tribes made use of all portions of their prey
European settlers only sought their...

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Categories: sportsmen, animals, death, sad
Form: Rhyme
Rafshropshirelad
I volunteered for service in the RAF in early 1942,
When I’d just become 18 and got three shillings a day;
I became a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner...

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Categories: sportsmen, courage, england, hero, history,
Form: Quatrain
Summer Adventure
childhood innocence
freedom to roam natures way,
Galactic image.


Another day, adventures sought, friends to meet,
rise at five,  sun just rising, head for the fields,
long day ahead,...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sportsmen, adventure, appreciation, childhood, happiness,
Form: Haibun
A Baseball Player's Legacy
The players take the field
Pitchers and catchers warm up
Pre-game practice is underway
The coaches and umpires discuss the rules
The coaches shake hands and walk away;
The home-plate...

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Categories: sportsmen, children, people, sports, home,
Form: I do not know?



Negativity
No, my mother Atheist said,
Long live cricket, God is dead,
Debbie Downer's Nihilist thoughts,
Total negativity she taught,
This is Debbie Downer' doormat daughter,
Saturday sportsmen off to the...

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Categories: sportsmen, mother, mother daughter, sports,
Form: Free verse
Weep For Me I'M Dying
Of a distant land I ponder.
Of a country torn asunder.
Of Zimbabwe ne'er forgotten -
Where the life has turned so rotten.
Ah it tugs my heartstrings so...

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Categories: sportsmen, nostalgia, life,
Form: Rhyme
Tribute To the Twenty-Ninth Titans
If it were only me, I will be doing anyhow
Nobody would have been there to challenge me now

Now I look back into the face of...

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Categories: sportsmen, dedication
Form: Couplet
The Liquor Bottle
The Liquor Bottle
       
     Conical at the top beautiful sides offers it support
  ...

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Categories: sportsmen, addiction, drink, social,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Higher One Strives To Go

What is this idea of excellence
Where “Good enough” just can’t stay? 
What is it in man that makes us plan
To strive deeper inside each day?

What...

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Categories: sportsmen, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Bless the Beasts and the Children
Why do careless and heartless people abuse both animals and children?  I would like to think one reason is purely ignorance.  They simply...

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Categories: sportsmen, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Jealous, Jealous, Jealous
Jealous, Jealous, Jealous

The swiftness of the Vessa just killed me, 
That speed and the grandeur of the seat, 
The frame’s shine and the four wheels...

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Categories: sportsmen, caregiving, child abuse, education,
Form: Quatrain
Stephanie Slater
A Games Maker at London’s Paralympics 2012, 
Stephanie used to be a competitor able-bodied, 
In the Great Britain team, mind on the Olympics, 
Even tho’...

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Categories: sportsmen, sports, strength, water,
Form: Blank verse
Dressed To the Nines
Welcome winter month into my little haven of dreams and joy 
your rouge cheeks and your fresh air kisses will do us all good 
Let...

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Categories: sportsmen, appreciation, winter,
Form: Free verse
An Office Event Invitation
With the world cup fever on and Lagaan 2015 pitching in,
Let’s get to the pitch and taste those 22 yards,
Though we don’t have Jumani’s prediction...

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Categories: sportsmen, games,
Form: Rhyme

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