Beautiful Soccer Poems

Plucky Jamaica shocks the Copa America winners, Brazil, in a scoreless draw that propels the Reggae Girlz to the knockout stage for the first time...

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Ponytails
Swishing madly,
Hurdling across the pitch.
Beads of sweat
Spraying in spirals
As fingers point,
Shouting directions
To strikers, wingers, and defensemen.

Defensewomen, really.

Get back!
Push it!
Don't lose form!
Take the shot!
Grazing past the...

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An activity that is beautiful to the eye
Fun to watch and be part of
A unifying pillar across continents
Individuals relentlessly chase an inflated object
In a bid...

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Frustrating
Bad tasting
Bitter
Heart pumping 
Bile rising
Tense
Sh*t team
Bad dream
Awful
Supporting
Supporting!
Supporting!!
Why!!!????
Time to move on
Divorce my club!
If only I could
If only I could
Forever depressed 
Watching sh*t
Week on week
Year on year
Manager...

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I never thought I'd fall out of love with football
I've seen referees make bad decisions, but this super league is the worst ever call
No football...

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Ciel, on your birth day ‘twas true to say
Heaven’s bright light rays rain’d down from above
Fast forward to fifteen years to the day
Now it’s you...

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With the wasp women on her heels 
Thackray needed to cut a deal 
In order to keep enjoying sorority gourmet prepaid meals 
Taking a seat...

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Own goal, VAR
Pogba, Mbappe, Griezmann-
Five reasons France won
OMG pitch invaders!
Second French World Cup title...

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FIFA was run by crooks and became the mafia.
They selected the world cup hosts of Qatar and Russia,
but who was corrupt the most, South Africa?

All...

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Escobar


Columbia was a team full of promise, on the rise
Their relationship with El Padrino they could not disguise
Drug money accepted under threat of demise
No choice...

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Costa, Nacho goals
first World Cup VAR decision-
Ronaldo hat trick






Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved.
Published 2018 in "2018 World Cup Senryu" via wattpad.com...

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I’m Unhappy with FIFA 16

I'm unhappy with FIFA 16.
Passing's no good, the 
transitions sloppy.  15 was 
better: more excitement, maybe a banal
pleasure in how...

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For this we stand
and hearts we wear,
upon our sleeves
we know no dread.

We rest alone
yet share this love,
the beautiful game
with our army, 
our blood.

With arms outstretched...

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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...

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I hate soccer I hate it so much I don’t call it football I call it soccer,
It is a pointless boring game involving no impressive...

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