Short Basketball Game Poems

Good basketball game! 
The Brooklyn team actually won!
I take joy in that...

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It was very cold outside.
I had a basketball game we tied.
I went to go eat some turkey.
I saw the pool; it was frozen and murky....

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Epigram Couplet Contest
Sponsor: Silent One

Belly ache when the basketball game had started,
I was shooting a lay up, and accidentally farted!


Written: November 21, 2015...

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You First

Been missed

You too keep notice

Been away why?
You to the soonest

Every moment to clap

...Once more, I am a...

Tall human you never saw

As in every basketball game i go

...Play

...Or No...

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carnival -- indoors
instead of outdoors -- has a 
stifling air to it

silk wearing psychic --
mouth with an overbite -- tells
the future glibly

basketball game -- hoops
too small for tossing -- gives a
large dust-covered prize...

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Telling blacks not to come to a basketball game.
That is such a racist remark and a shame.
Making such a comment is an absurdity.
In the professional basketball community,
African-Americans make up the great majority.
Those words said were a public disgrace.
Everywhere in any professional sports place,
room should be made for any color and race.

from a news story found on aol.com
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M-ake no mistake in life, 
E-ven in a basketball game; 
R-emain in the right path, 
L-ittle error can tarnish
Y-our name.

B-all is in your hands
O-ctober twenty-ninth day; 
N-either arm will violate, 
D-ribbling not in a wrong way.
A-llow not your feet to travel toward the false direction; 
D-riving hard to the goal, charging not one in motion.

B-e careful with your action, 
A-ware of every matter; 
L-et your life be righteous, 
D-on't turn the ball 
O-ver....

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