US Sports Report
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When playing basketball
being tall is best it's thought
but that's not all
wearing saggy baggy shorts on the court
needs keen hand-eye coordination
plus being fleet of foot
and have n...
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Categories:
hurler, baseball, basketball, football, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Hesiod: Ares translation by Michael R Burch
...Ares
by Hesiod
translation by Michael R. Burch
Ares, exceeding all men in manliness, bronze-harnessed charioteer, golden-helmed gladiator, strong-armed spear-hurler, dauntless shield-bearer, cou...
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Categories:
hurler, courage, death, dream, father
Form: Free verse
Storm
...All you have to do is waiting,
To listen to the wind rumble,
Like poor elephants,
All you have to do is waiting,
Sealed in our rooms,
Praying for his slate roof,
Praying for the wires,
I can n...
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Categories:
hurler, courage, storm, wind,
Form: Free verse
Alas I Knew Him Well
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He walked with a swagger,
was a delinquent lagger
and recidivist wagger
all his schoolboy days.
Joyridin on the Pare’ bus
he’d skylark and cuss
just like one of us
a...
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Categories:
hurler, school,
Form: Rhyme
Spring Hasn'T Sprung
...Spring hasn't sprung: No bees have stung;
No painter's fallen off a ladder's rung.
No miner's contracted black lung.
Spring hasn't sprung: No batter has swung
At a strike three pitch that no hu...
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Categories:
hurler, how i feel, philosophy,
Form: Monorhyme
A Wild Temper
...a wild temper separated her from the pack
a wild temper got her thrown out of school
a wild temper got her taken into custody
a wild temper made her stand in front of the judge
a wild temper sent her...
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Categories:
hurler, life, death, death,
Form: Free verse