High School Football Poems

Read a book once
Folded the corners
To mark my progress.
It was sort of a
Wagon train read
Long, torturous, 
A seemingly endless quest
For an unknown destination
Pictured only in...

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Edgar my dear 
Why do you have that spear 
Is that your plan?
When in a jam? 
Scare the bloody Kansas City yellow and red 
When...

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Though a Democrat, I play the devil's advocate...

after reading the article
(published in the July + August 2024
issue of Mother Jones)
titled Raging bull - Donald Trump's
pugilistic...

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High school football game
cheerleaders tossed night sky chill
rhythmic beat of drums
alumni and students roar
October's homecoming queen...

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You don’t know me
You did not know me then
I watched you from afar
You knew not where or when
I turned up at your practice
I saw you...

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Friday night football lights
  His whole life high school sports
A rah-rah father behind him
  Overflowing his shorts

Covid-19 postponed many dreams
  And left...

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Smoke ‘em if you got them.
Save the bottles for return.
That hippie needs a haircut.
What the hell’s a Lady Bird?
My Christmas tree had bubble lights, 
My...

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Poor Mikey
gave everything he had
for fifteen minutes under lights
(and they are expensive lights).
He went down not once but twice
in the same game with the same...

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The New York Giants 
are playing today
Watching football is exciting
Yes, it is violent 
and people get injured
But the players know what they
are getting into when...

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Seconds passes on,
tension grows stronger,
blood flowing faster,
heartbeat rises high,
Eyes search for answers.

Clouded by thoughts;
fear and anger
pumping inside.
The world clears out.

Tears clawing;
life long guard,
almost down.

Only
one thought;

who?...

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My Greatest Gift
 and Biggest Weakness

I recall my parents warning me, I was a little dense.
That my greatest gift and biggest weakness 
was that I...

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IF ever I had a country : XXV - XXVI

               ...

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Eagles play football here and nice people are always near.

Niceville, Florida
(the Eagles are the local high school team)
10/3/16
For Silent One's where do you live contest....

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LOVE UNDER THE HIGH SCHOOL BLEACHERS 
Some time ago, within a memory
deep in my dark, and most forbidden past,
when I recall your teaching only me,
there...

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In the fall of "59 we played our best...
That was the year we were better than the rest.

Brooks and Richard always led the way...
And John...

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