Long Footballers Poems

Unquotable quotes: Fashion modeling with an eye on footballers – XXVII

Isn’t “haute couture” like “cordon bleu cuisine”? Both equally edible? You still have to pull the shrimp scales apart to get at the meat.

What do...

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HUMAN BEINGS
Human beings are like the white horse,
They are as strong as Orji tree,
They moves like,
The elephant and the moon,
They shines like the,
Sun and the stars,
But the,
Things that marvels me most,
Is our brains and our,
Discovering,
...

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2pac said we need some changes
am i the only one hopin to change it
tryna leave a diffrent message to the one i came wit
when the government empty there brains quick
without puttin any thought into it
mixed...

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Football how safe is it to play?

By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& A Poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet



The following poem was inspired by news recently that schoolchildren and even professional footballers could become injured...

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FIFA V The Poppy
by Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& a poetry soup honourably mentioned poet

I wrote the following poem, when I heard FIFA were going to fine England, Scotland and Wales for wearing a...

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Jack was born in 1981, but at the age of 18,
Was punched in his face so he was out clean, 
He fell backwards to hit his skull on the kerb, 
Which haemorrhaged his brain to...

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Within these walls
Deep down in the hearts of these slums
Underneath all the poverty
Beyond the misery and turbulence
Past all the the violence and insecurity
Deep deep down these slums lays a treasure
A treasure worth pursuing
A treasure finely...

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I'm sick and tired of the comparisons
If You disrespect one because you prefer the other, you're an embarrassment
They're the greatest footballers of all time you should appreciate them both
Every game, they continue to break records...

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Oh Africa
Many nations envy you for your productivity
Blessed sons and daughters of talents and ability
You've shaken the world with powerful potential
Your sons have led those who called them Monkeys
You are a real giant though you...

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Is it not time yet to end this food bank life

And desperate youth killing each others with a knife

Short of support, help and education

Short of understanding it's not that complicated

They don't don't see equality in...

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One Direction is the best pop group ever,
In lyrics and harmonies they are strong;
They take me to a place better than words, 
It is to them that I happily belong. 

They are all beautiful to...

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So many people living beyond there means
Those one's their so obsessed with greed
And there's those coming apart at the seam's               ...

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Michael was run over by a bus when he was just fifteen, 
He played football for Everton’s junior or youth squad, 
But suffered an acquired brain injury, a fractured skull, 
Which gave him mild Cerebral...

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Dirranbandi  plonking

27Australians and a shearer came to bash Bronco Don in 1945
He was just back from Kokoda killing Japs to stay alive
Some carried beer bottles and others 2 handed sticks
I was in hospital being...

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Right Hand Twist
With a twisted sexuality like that
Anything was possible

Especially when you were called Zenky
And were from Oldham

The most deprived town in England
But that doesn’t matter

For only personal attributes do
He has a big four inch...

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Little did I realise when I swung
Into the car park at Calder Glen
That by the end of that week in August 2009
My days of teaching would be over.

It all began so well
Meeting an old colleague...

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Don’t worry.

The head of British Gas
will take a pay cut.
Your favourite watering hole
will never shut.
There may be acid rain
because the ozone layer is kaput,

But someday
it’ll be OK.

Don’t worry.

Elvis Presley will announce
that he is well and...

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Agents Abroad. 
Tiny rooms in basements somewhere not far from the docks, 
pink light ,no air-conditions. Cartagena girls on contract going 
from city to city, their best years are as short as footballers; 
only the...

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Everything is 'normal' - the balance has shifted,
even lady footballers have suddenly become gifted,
electric cars and now public trips to the stars,
it's said that certain sexual people may be banned from bars.

I'm not smoking in...

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Age and a footballer

A lot I hold against Age:
It can the cheapest goals wedge,
The fortyish striker make a tired leg;
Final whistle of a match quick to beg,
The referee not afraid to bluff
For a first half...

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To the owner of the minivan conveniently blocking my exit:

May the sweat of a thousand footballers invade your nostril
May the sound of a truck hooter invade your thoughts so shrill
May you freely step into the...

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Can’t you for a moment be frank
About his being of higher rank;
That not once, not twice, your heart sank
And you’d wanted to yourself spank?
Nsofor whose sweat and robes stank;
The smell of air in his room...

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One of the greatest footballers that ever did play
Wore the number ten shirt in the name of Pele 
Commandments of ten were given on Mount Sinai
How that number came up nobody knows why 

Ten Downing...

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I've just spoken with Polycarp
About his bright red baseball cap 
I'd swear is his main handicap:
His wish to keep wearing the cap
While to Tennis Ball he is Pap
And equally does football 'tap';
His donning of a...

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What's happening to the world?
Footballers are getting paid thousands a week.  While the poor are starving, so sick and 
weak.

Politicains corrupt and wrong.  Spending hundreds on business lunches.  Enough to feed ten...

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