Hockey Sports Poems

I am forming my own wild sports team Grandma said.
We all wondered what in the atmosphere she had in her head.
Racquetball? Hockey? Wrestling? Softball or...

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They're pagans on ice with wood sticks
And maximum pain each inflicts
But Saint Patrick knows
God prefers trios
Like three-leaf shamrocks and hat tricks...

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There is a large cattle property in the Northern Territory of Australia
   where the bores are named after Famous cricketers and that prompted...

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These are the best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part III

For Jack Nicklaus, at the 1987 Open
by Michael R. Burch

When you were young
every putt...

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These are the best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part II

The Locker
by Michael R. Burch

All the dull hollow clamor has died
and what was contained,
removed,
reproved
adulation...

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Ali’s Song
by Michael R. Burch

They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful,...

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Ode To Wayne Gretzky

We all carry the same genes
and look how different we turn out;
I honed my skills to playing hockey
and look how far I’ve...

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my ice covered lake
skating~hockey~ice fishing
fun for young and old


 
Date Written: 1/16/2022  
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6 Place  

Winter HaikuContest Judged: 1/17/2022   
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin...

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Hooray!

     Wet grassy feet fill my soccer cleats.
     Hot sweaty teens run fast track meets.

  ...

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Taking Canada's Game To The World

Gladiators on ice,
Taking Canada’s game to the World.
A nation’s heroes at war:
From Vancouver Island to Newfoundland,
And from Tuktoyaktuk to Iqaluit,
And...

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I don't see many white NBA players
   even fewer white all-stars
I wonder what kind of xenophobic tyrants
   the owners and commissioner...

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Small city arena long out of date,
that is where this B-league team plays their games,
young men learning, hopes for fortune and fame.
I watch the practice,...

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one hundred meters run and swim
gymnastic teeters in the gym
judo boxing race on bikes
rowing coxing running spikes
water polo lifting weights
shooting solo tens and eights
football hockey...

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hockey season
the widow making
opposing camps



posted on August 11, 2018...

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You know that summertime is gone
		when a chill is in the air
		when snow is in the forecast
		and hockey sticks appear
		when kids with toques and earmuffs
		show...

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