Player Football Poems

Let’s talk about it.
The projected disrespected was selected! Yes selected, not by man, but by God.
144, yes, that’s the number it took for Shedeur Sanders...

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Running back
Do running back do?
Ha!  I Caught ball
Come O’ Kansas, come can’t wait
To catch me yet
Ball caught, clutch against my chest
I run the ball...

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Gregory was romantic
and new to teenage girls
his school mates up to antics
weak knees at Dottie's curls

she tests the football team
a better player than him
she's constant...

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It was in the eighties, a winter day in Funchal, 
the capital of Madeira, when a woman gave birth.
She was an anonymous, struggling woman
sailing the...

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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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A football player named Zay
Made an exceptional play.
The ref called it flaunting, 
But I thought it quite daunting.
Can't a guy celebrate a great day?...

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Both France and Australia were nil-nil until extra time when Aussie Alanna Kennedy’s misdirected header during a corner kick produced an own goal for France....

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There was a time when the great, gridiron classic,
    Was the ultimate in athletic pursuit.
But lately, the evolution has been warped, by
...

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The game a start
Crowd was cheering
Out on the field
First down was nearing 

Thought he was fast
Could rush past you
You wrapped him up
The last thing you...

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Ronaldo, messi are nice
but Pele had no price
always made more than one goal
with him in field no zero for sure...

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Im short of words
Yummy liver in the pot's pool
Feeds astonished Aston in its villa 
Dating back to 2017 heavy loss 

Was it the power of...

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These are the best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part II

The Locker
by Michael R. Burch

All the dull hollow clamor has died
and what was contained,
removed,
reproved
adulation...

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Football brought shivers to folks in Three Rivers,
With slivers of Fall in the air,
And the crowd was excited but not so delighted,
By weather more cloudy...

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Dear football although the thrill of you brings me joy 

I find it a struggle to be a normal boy

The repeated hits to the head...

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