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Football Free Verse Poems

These Football Free Verse poems are examples of Free Verse poems about Football. These are the best examples of Free Verse Football poems written by international poets.

could barely be relaxed

If I was any more relaxed, I would be melting
others are scrambling today
there are graduations all over the state
I am sitting in the shade with

Categories: life,

Do you Remember

Do you remember that day when the blanket wasn’t blue but it was pink,
Do you remember that girl playing with toy guns, and getting dirty

Categories: anger, child, family, heartbreak,

When United win I live again

Sorry, I just had to add this in here – United. Kids. Wife. In that order.

I’ve cried in pubs and danced in streets,
Thrown fists at

Categories: anger,

The Mickey Mouse Clock


Already the morning
is full of momentum
and is beginning to crash through
the defences, leaving pieces
scattered behind.
There are always broken
things left in the wake of time.
Take that

Categories: age, time,

Yards

While I was at work my yards were busy
a nameless, white flower plucked
from my front garden
lay on the brick shelf by the gate
wrapped in cream

Categories: flower, football, garden, home,

ode to you

"Ode to You"
You, the girl who learned to wear two worlds —
Nigeria braided into your roots,
England stitched into your stride.
A quiet voice that holds galaxies,
a

Categories: 12th grade, youth,

A breathless house wheezes

Contest: Breathless
Sponsor: Constance La France
Written: 24/05/2025

Quote "To breathe is to live, and without breath, there is no life." — Lailah Gifty Akita

A breathless house wheezes

Winter

Categories: life,

streams of mud

streams of mud


we played in shallow streams of muck
where there was no black, no white
we were all mud-packed kids
crusty-skinned little boys who knew the sludge

Categories: black love, childhood, friendship,

The Post-Game Interview

     Indomitable

     Indefatigable

     Impenetrable

     Immovable

Categories: football, giggle, mom, power,

In every event'

In this write my spirit stands.' To curse satans war on all
Humans.' For the move in taking babes from mothers breasts.' To g m crops

Categories: addiction, betrayal, celebrity, community,

Life

In the game of football, one may be
called for an infraction by the toss of a flag.
In basketball, there are whistles and 24 seconds to

Categories: growth,

THE SCRIPTED GAME

The roar of the crowd, a deafening sound,
As helmets collide on hallowed ground.
But whispers arise, a cynical plea,
"Is victory real, or just make-believe?"

Like headlines that

Categories: fear, football,

Memorial Junior High

Malcolm and Courtney at Memorial"

In the halls of Memorial Junior High,
Where lockers clanged and dreams flew high,
Two hearts met in a gentle spin—
Malcolm and Courtney,

Categories: love,

Riley Park

A dozen willows in the park
A shady grove on the lawn
Eleven tall trees in the sun
And one dark stump in the shade.

They invite me to

Categories: art,

4x10

The Killing Field”

Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as

Categories: absence, allegory, angel, angst,