Football Elegy Poems

The king of football was born on October 23, 1940 in Tre's Coracoes, Minas Gerais, Brazil
The king of football full name is Edison Arantes do...

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They grew up side by side two kids in a park
Playing together until the streetlights lightened the dark
Growing as school friends and team mates in...

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How we wish the graveyard was never your friend 
For we could sit at SKD and ATS watching your effortless, magical and mesmerizing dribbles
Cheering, jumping...

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Spring or autumn, leaves bloom or fall,
Everything seemed to offer me immense happiness 
As long as we stayed together.
Harshest of weather, extremes of cold
Still felt...

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Though unlived ages defter poets shall bring,
And blur all rhymes woven in my barren span;
May young pupil-scribes with like relish savor
These yellowing tropes as sworn...

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You waved goodbye with a
               smile, 
 I couldn't argue because...

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No one seemed to take much note at first.
Old-timers on park benches passed a comment or two,
Somebody wrote a letter to the local rag,
but no...

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A warm, glowing September night.
Nondescript small town bar with
people enjoying fine company and revelry.
College football game just finished.
We won!
Some friends find a table and 
a...

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SLAUGHTER

(for Emmanuel)

It was Saturday morning,
He went out to play
On that dusty patch in Ebutte Meta
And we never saw him again
We looked everywhere
Even in the sewers...

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They say that you never realize
What you have until it's gone
But I knew what I had until
They had to take your life away
We used to...

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