Sports Free Verse Poems

“There's something wrong with you”, 
They say as I watch the women's sports,
“There’s something wrong with you”, 
They say as I am engrossed by the...

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Start with sentences. 
Or happiness. 
Or everyone. 
Take words as if they have been hanging on the ceiling. 
The waiting room can grow. 
Long hallways...

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If you don’t like the weather
wait five minutes and it will change.

A pitcher has pitched a shutout—
he is a hero.

You can bet
he’s talked about everywhere.

Somewhere...

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Checked it flag
A stand out soapbox
All in grey
Challenger in a race
Speed of competitors
It was fast like a Greyhound Dog
Grey color gets attention
Had to mention
Grey soapbox...

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she smells the body of her mate
the small hole in its pelt
is a dark halo of blood
she opens her mouth wide
and shivers
invisible death is here
and...

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I love chess
It talk about life
I'm careful about every move
But today, I play like a King
Full of strategy, full of power
Every movement I made is...

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The Trade Deadline

Every year it seems
sports teams have a trade deadline
I rather be a player not the spectator
so I do not know a lot
but this...

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Low flight that bends
The whorling sphere
In whistle-talk bounce-stops

Grass stains that streak
The dimpled-egg sitting white

March!  March!  On and on
Then climb the air-ladder
And peak in...

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Lisa and I played a round of frisbee-disc golf today—let’s reminisce.

I love the ‘live performance’ of sports, how you must physicalise
discipline. You get this instant...

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Damn.
You're really gone.
I guess it hit me on the way 
  To your celebration of life ceremony.
It's going to feel weird when I go...

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When it came to love
I had no real plan
I know I wanted to connect in an intimate way
with experimentation and playfulness

I was short on experience
there...

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MAngo Mellow Madness
M's

1.
Mango Mellow Madness
Mapping Meandering meaningless memories
of Malice with Mirthful mourning
What messy Magma monstrosities
Best to murder them
Hmphf ( angrily) 

2.
Mango Mango Madness
Magnifera indica
Slippery, stinging...

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hello and welcome to gymnastics doctor.com.  i'm larry nassar and this is part of my sports medicine tender teaching moments and today we are...

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There, mustardseed scatter’d on firm cement
Frank’s sense all but gone as architect-
ural borders take shape: the cloister sports 
Blue-green algae tanks | engineer-BREW
  guard’d...

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This rink ranks right up there.
My power skates, slice each ring,
the scent of ice assails my nose.
Funny in the absence of air, I breathe.
It must...

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