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Two Greatest Commandments
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backboard, allegory, analogy, religious,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Backboard Game
It had nothing to do with March Madness or the NCAA final championship game between Arkansas and Duke in 1994, but it was one great game.* In fact, it was one of the greatest games...

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Categories: backboard, basketball,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Hoosier Hoopla!
O'er the undulating prairie where grows soy beans and corn,
Generations of premier basketball players have been born.
The Hoosier State of Indiana, where budding talent is so replete,
Where small towns can conquer titans, shocking them in...

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Categories: backboard, sportsbasketball,
Form: Rhyme
Abysmally Slow Learner
I don't know about you
but the seeming me abused and cursed
had all my birth fingers burnt off
at the first knuckle before the first lullaby
from too many here hold my beer
blithely eager watch this rolls of...

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Categories: backboard, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Old Bolsanaro
Old Bolsanaro wishes he was, and takes strides to become, a fictional character as a way to promote more predictable backlash from his invasive, divisive and inflammatorily abusive comments—you know, to make a level playing...

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Categories: backboard, allegory, political, satire,
Form: Prose Poetry



Basket Bucket Rim Rim
Hand's Up Dashing, Feat Moving, Ball Grasping .... Let's Soar!

Sound's Fill The Gymnasium, Nothing Blocks Our Chore!

Inside, Outside, .... Up And Down, Once, .... More!

Basket Bucket, Rim, Rim, Shoot From The Floor;
   ...

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© Mike Reed  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backboard, appreciation,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Hoops and Hops
Now I’m not a guy likes to dunk,
But this overseas backboard is junk.
For the costs I’ve incurred,
I should beat Larry Byrd,
Or hit a three-pointer, I’d thunk.

See, the front of the rim always droops,
And that makes...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backboard, basketball, drink,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Couplets Retro Curled
Imagine if a couplet traveled the world,
gaining an accent before moving on;
Repositioned from front to back twirled;

An old rhyme harnessed and hurled, 
finding a backboard to bounce upon;
Imagine if a couplet traveled the world;

Tangled consonants...

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Categories: backboard, emotions, feelings, poetry, write, writing,
Form: Villanelle
- Playing Basketball - With My Widowed Father
We play this game each time we 
talk, in person or on the phone,

he is the backboard with the basket, 

I dribble on to find the right
 positions taking careful aim,

as I am trying hard...

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Categories: backboard, family, father,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs