Long Lakers Poems

Air-ball, foul, listen to the referee 
No free throw from the key 
Sit in this corner for time out
Check by your names and throw a pout
Hopscotch, Tik Tok
Social media around the clock
For freedom of press
For...

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A young man frequents our bookstore looking for sports books that interest him
and…when we happens to spy them…
he asks us to hold them for him until he has enough money to buy them.

He was in...

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Pike Place Market and Space Needle
race tracks out at Indy
stands Jefferson's Memorial
Nashville's Grand Ole Opry

Biking somewhere downtown Beijing (Bay-jing)
Great Wall nearby Xian (Z-on)
wow, thirty million in Chongquing (Chun-king)
pass Hong Kong on sampan (sam-pon)

St Petersburg a...

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Nature

sounds and waves
transfix in keys
trees refines fine lines made
faded leaving leaves fall
fragile Merc
roads leading to nowhere
fine hair
water fluidity and stupidity
stamps mad cramps
stamp to punctuality
staircase spiraling to disintegration
major appreciation
columbo toad
old crackling code
engineers and Arche
marshes shaded
coiled rope...

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The world was a troubled place in the '80's, home to a number of disasters
   From the plight of Iran's hostages to the meltdown of Chernobyl's reactor

But in the world of basketball, the...

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Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie
24/08/2018
Contest on my Home country by Brahne Bailey

Being an Ozzie is great,
Everyone calls Everyone Mate.
Too laid back for a heated debate,
Culture so young..... so we’re late.

We walk around wearing our thongs,
Like it’s a...

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Where are my old white corsets
  Right next to your candy cigarettes

Hey! We didn't get today's edition of 'Grit'
  It's canceled. They use bad words now like 'Guck' and 'Spit'

Oh, and I can't...

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REST IN PEACE KOBE BRYANT

Everything in life,
Keeps getting hard as knife..
The death of a famous basketballer,
That once played for Los Angeles Lakers..

Tears rolls down on the face of everyone,
Kobe byrant was a favourite to everyone..
The...

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Sunday 
 No working 
No Cleaning
No School
Just relaxation
Not even church
Sunday is the best week of my life especially when football and basketball comes on screen .
I prefer basketball.
Lakers beat the Supersonics
Go Lakers.
Today was a great...

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The year 2001 was the greatest year of my life. It was when I was at the beginning of my
teenage years. The L.A. Lakers won the NBA Championship, I saw the Twin Towers being
destroyed by...

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The playing starts each October in the fall.
But alas, this year there is no basketball.

Another season should have started for the NBA.
However, fans will not see their teams play.

From the Knickerbockers in New York, to...

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LAKERS

Lakers, a basketball team where fighting for honor begin.
A friend who is brave as lion extinct.
The death of a famous basketballer,
Brings rain in this sunny weather.

Everything in life,
Keeps getting sharp as knife
But their intention to...

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I speak in parables and occasionally tell lies,
Holy scriptures housing flames as rolling papers, 
Spent a few nights eating nothing but salt from shakers. 
Used to pray for the light but now disrespect favours, 
Pay...

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