Angst Football Poems

I can't say that I ever cared for
Any opinion but my own.
I can't say that I ever wanted 
To be anywhere else but home.

You see,...

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Venal Glands
The Troll thinks he’s something smart and cool and all that
Having a go at the soccer player who is a talented one
The Troll states...

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People do throw rocks at shining,
Football does bring on whining,
That was our forward line,
Do goals exist? About time!
Why have goals? My team!
What are goals? It...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Once were dinners a'deux, you see,
Was it only a few months, or a century?
Once were schools abuzz with kids,
Teachers agog to see what did they...

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Down under in Oz, over here,
There is no football, my dears,
This is a tale so drear,
A footy champion, once held dear, 
He died of no...

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Letters to you,

the undeniable,

the sanctimonious,

the one I will wait for...

No evil to fear,

no sweat to avow,

and nothing that I am not.


I wondered for years whether...

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Oh The Shame.

And so the curtain falls on another shambolic showing,
Then the inevitability of yet another manager going.
You build up a nations hopes and dreams,
Then...

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THE COACH
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

 
Went to an alumni meeting last week
 Looking for solace, the outlook was bleak
We lost a game we should have won
A...

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A green sweaty swampy land
Maybe no place for a man
But it is a home to many creatures
Such as our friend's the alligators

Now not so long...

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