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Goalkeeper Poems - Poems about Goalkeeper

Premium MemberJames Herriot - All Creatures Great and Small

...Famous pet doctor, James Alfred Wight
Who, at 50 years of age, began to professionally write
Taking "James Herriot" as his pen name
Bought from a goalkeeper at a football game

Couldn't publish ...
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Categories: goalkeeper, animal, fun, writing,
Form: Clerihew

When Dreams Met the Eiffel Tower

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A dream for many a watch for some  
The Olympic journey, Here it comes!!  
It was in Paris, few days ago  
It rushed a shiver from the head to the toe.  

Flags carried through the Seine river...
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Categories: goalkeeper, appreciation, celebration, hockey, inspiration,
Form: Narrative



Why I Need a Man When I Am Too Much In a Lady-Like Skin

...Why I need a man when I am too much in a lady-like skin ?
 
There are hundreds of reasons, there must be. 
The first reason is perhaps loneliness.  
Over-pouring. Overflowing. 
Fictitious charac...
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Categories: goalkeeper, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

From Father

...What one would at last gather
From listening to father:
Certain things go together;
The valiant and go-getter,
A genius and pace setter,
The heart and a pace maker,
Leather,gums and shoemaker,
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Categories: goalkeeper, education, imagination, perspective, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

My Mother Was Agile I Remember

...My mother picked chicken
in the middle of our backyard
as the national team goalkeeper......
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Categories: goalkeeper, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Light Verse



The Blue In Momma's Eyes

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Blue memoirs fall from her sky eyes
 As blue memoire fall from her eyes
 right down where I slept, I picked it up.
My memories, they tingle me,
 like flashes of a cinema screenplay, I see;
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Categories: goalkeeper, africa, baby, beautiful, cute
Form: Free verse

Goalkeeper

...goalkeeper

The goalkeeper stands tall between goal posts that
some times seem far away, but he is the hero
the man they have to get past to score.
I was once a goalkeeper, they put me there mai...
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Categories: goalkeeper, blessing, cinderella, dream,
Form: Blank verse

Selected Goalkeeper

...My mom caught chicken
          in the middle of our yard
          as a goalkeeper for the selected ......
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Categories: goalkeeper, adventure, allusion, funny, humorous,
Form: Free verse

Sporty

...Sportsman

I don’t care so much about football
that fills the screen so often in this mad country.
I do sometimes watch the highlights but
not the whole game which has long dull moments
when th...
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Categories: goalkeeper, abuse, age, america, analogy,
Form: Blank verse

Goalkeeping Mentality

...I played as a Goalkeeper
trained to make the save
push the ball away 
instinctively go again,
knocked down get up,
get hit get in the way,
down up down up
take a battering
not pass kick or he...
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Categories: goalkeeper, psychological, strength,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHello and Goodbye Coco

...HELLO AND GOODBYE COCO	

I wanted a brown Labrador, blonde and black ,
I love them all
But I had made up my mind, anxiously I sat waiting for a call,
From the breeder, the phone rang ,
They had...
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Categories: goalkeeper, death, dog, love,
Form: Rhyme

Football Dream

...The football dream

Jesus, the famous trainer for Benefica
football club came to me in a dream
said: I didn`t stop drinking beer he
Would not indorse me to be the club`s 
next goalkeeper.
Afte...
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Categories: goalkeeper, age, birth, blessing, blue,
Form: Blank verse

My Claim To Fame

...I went to school with a famous girl
Many years ago
She wasn't nothing special then
Bit snooty as it goes
She played well for the hockey team
Goalkeeper at her station
But clever as she was at t...
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Categories: goalkeeper, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

I'M Free

...I'm misunderstood 
In my own family 
I'm iron, they think I'm wood
If they knew - what I only could

Or what I carry 
Actually more 
then necessary 
I'm misunderstood

In my own family 
I'...
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Categories: goalkeeper, courage, family, freedom, future,
Form: Quatrain

The Goalkeeper

...The goalkeeper is a lonely man
who keeps the goal as best he can.
He dedicates both life and soul
to stopping shots upon his goal.
There was one once who was the best-
his name is obvious it,s G...
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Categories: goalkeeper, football,
Form: Abecedarian

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