Short Backboard Poems

Basketball Bob  

Slam dunk, arm is stuck
Reach up high toward backboard jumps
Basketball Bob scores
 
2/28/18...

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My Throne

The golden emblem
On my throne
The tall and long backboard
Phased with pictures
And memories
The seat that holds
The power
My throne...

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Patrick Ewing
  What you chewing?

Larry Bird
  Hall-of-Fame assured

Scottie Pippen
  Lid's still flippin'

Tim Duncan
  Legacy hasn't sunk in

Bill Bradley
  Didn't play badly

Walt Frazier
  Sharp as a razor

Moses Malone
  The backboard you owned

George (The Iceman Cometh) Gervin
  a-wigglin' and swervin'

Reggie Miller
  4th-quarter killer

Manute Bol
  Bless his soul...

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Long, winding gravel driveway
  decrepit old Mercury station wagon
    parked there
    doors unlocked
    those big red buttons
    sticking up
     no seatbelts either
Tiger lilies blooming
  all-at-once, on  
  either side
  of the gravel
A few years later
  a cockeyed backboard
  appeared on a tree
    supporting an
    uneven, rickety
    basketball rim

Winters we spent shoveling snow...

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The south wind came and it blew so strong
it sent my backboard where it didn't belong

Busted and crooked it warped so much
from the Gods of winds performing their thrust

Now my basketball has no fair of play
it's gone all torqued up throughout the day

But the rim is still in level condition
my ball maneuvers will have a pure rendition

Next time I will remember to anchor things down
or I will likely have a much bigger frown...

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