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Basketball Couplet Poems

These Basketball Couplet poems are examples of Couplet poems about Basketball. These are the best examples of Couplet Basketball poems written by international poets.

Tall and Soft

Written By:  D. Collins 6/11/25


Nothing could explain how soft OKC probably is.
Blocking out? And a max of 4 points from a big?
They have no

Categories: basketball, betrayal,

The Real AI

Written By:  D. Collins 6/6/25


Big men shivered when he got into the paint.
Knowing they're a victim of his vicious faints.
He had the meanest crossover

Categories: basketball, sports,

Angelic Standards Trashed

     Angel Reese plays basketball for the Chicago Sky
          She talks trash

Categories: angel, basketball, sad, woman,

Of Trust and Money

     He’d done this hundreds of times
      Step up to the line and make two dimes*

Categories: basketball, money, success,

Unparalleled Play

   Unparalleled, his heady play
     court vision like a night-hawk

Categories: appreciation, basketball, leadership, uplifting,

Pledging Allegiance to Caitlin Clark

   Caitlin Clark this, Caitlin Clark that
     your name is magic, you're the Cat in the Hat

Categories: basketball, irony, magic, star,

Keep Shooting, Caitlin

   Shot after shot after shot
     Caitlin’s red-hot

   Swish, swish, swish; the net barely moves

Categories: addiction, basketball, cry, emotions,

March Madness

Game day snacks were on my mind
as I quickly got into the check out line.
March Madness enlivened a cold, gray day
and made me impatient with

Categories: basketball, introspection, march, spring,

Nostalgia and Regret

Way back when I was a cager

Categories: growth, nostalgia, sad, self,

Larry Legend - Prejudice Knows No Color

Old-time fans called him 'The Great White Hope'
    Larry Bird had to 'walk the tightrope'
  He was no dope; he knew

Categories: basketball, black african american,

Our Games Define Us

Our games define us, who we are
    by which ones are most popular

  First comes football, all blood and gore*

Categories: basketball, football, games, race,

Friends and Fun

Oh, today is friendship day..
It's all my friends, I say 'Hey' !!
Oh, it's fall
Let us all play with the balls.

Oh, now it's time to play

Categories: 4th grade, friendship, sports,

My Heart Went Cold

Fifty-seven years I'd trusted my pins*

Categories: basketball, cry, loss, pain,

'linsanity'

They've thrown down the gauntlet
The Asians have a golf 'major' now won
Hideki Matsuyama, Masters Tournament Champion
The first from the Land of the Rising Sun

Ms. Naomi

Categories: baseball, basketball, golf, power,

Coming Home

COMING HOME


God, let me come home to you.
I did my best on earth, I promise
you!


I want to live with my Lord and
Master.
This earth with witless

Categories: god, how i feel,