RUNNING BACK-Dedicated verse to Nebraska Football Player Calvin D Jones
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 a brisk running back receive,
Handoffs from run the ball.
Catch passes Kansas (catch me) if you can
I runnin to ya… running back
2/5/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2025©
Dedicated
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Categories:
football player, appreciation, bereavement, celebration, dedication,
Form: Ekphrasis
Funchal's Star
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 seas of poverty, with three other
children to feed.
At first, she hesitated to have this little baby,
the fourth to come, because the family salary
did not cover more. Her husband, a good
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Categories:
football player, career, courage, inspirational, poverty,
Form: Narrative
Pele Playing
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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Categories:
football player, allegory, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Clerihew
October-Football Player
October-Football Player
passing, throwing, catching,
receiving, holding, running,
close to scoring I got the ball running mis-tackled-Touchdown!
10/16/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©
VERB VERSE Poetry Type
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Categories:
football player, analogy, appreciation, football, meaningful,
Form: Verse
A Football Player
A football player
A football player, whose name is Paul
Spent hours playing with his ball.
He’s won a prize with his team
And it wasn’t a night dream
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Categories:
football player, children,
Form: Rhyme