Short Soccer Player Poems

Pele wins World Cup at seventeen.
Letting proud Brazilians cheer and preen.
Scored six goals in victory
National Treasure we all see
He’s the best soccer player ever seen....

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The futurist artist Umberto Boccioni
tried to capture movement-an impossibility
nevertheless with atmosphere
on a flat surface made a flicker appear*

*https://galleryintell.com/artex/dynamism-soccer-player-umberto-boccioni/giacomo-balla-dynamism-of-a-dog-on-a-leash-1912/...

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Whatever you want to do. 
Whatever you want to be.
I’ll always stand by you.
You want to be a guitar player.
You want to be a soccer player.
You want to be in a band.
You want to be in a choir.
You want to be a dancer.
You can do anything, 
I know you can do anything.
Be whatever you want, 
I’ll be here supporting you....

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This is the family,
The completely normal family,
That lives just across the street,
With a daughter,
a son,
a mother,
and a father. 
The father, like any, is a unicorn tamer.
The mother is, of course, the queen of fairies.
The son is a hunter, a hunter of wild things.
The daughter is a soccer player, for the national team.
This family is completely average and normal,
In all of their special ways,
The one thing that weird,
Is that they don't exist....

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