Long Backboard Poems

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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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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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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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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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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Get offline. Meet me at the corner! 

My words are like the wind,
whistling in unassuming; 
Your words are filled with daggers,
attention seeking shouters;

Can’t come up with ideas of your own,
you’re too focused on yourself to...

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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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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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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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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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