Sporty Poems - Poems about Sporty

Where do we go from here?

...I won't lie to you to fake emotions I might feel
and tell you things you want to hear

In this give-and-take, no lie, that feels 
lobsided and askew, sometimes like a tug of war

Breathlessly w...

Flagon Master

...When I was all of twenty 
I sipped the wine of plenty
But it went straight to my head

When I was all of thirty
The wine just tasted dirty
So I switched to rum instead 

When I was all of for...

Theatre

...Theatre 

Something happens I can't explain
It feels enclosed quite like a train
Within its wall you are truly set free
To be yourself or who you want to be It's like, let's pretend, or dressing...

Sydney my city

...Sydney my love, Sydney my city

Splendour and majesty, nothing such pretty. 
Sydney my love, Sydney my city.

First rays of the sun,  spread here fun.
Opera, Harbour Bridge, Blue Mountain.
Pre...

RUNNER

...
  On path of life, Me the runner.
   In heat or cold, in rain or sun
   ' Sporty Persona ' is my banner.
    Holding Moral Values, I run.
  
    Honouring Honesty to proceed.
    On path of l...

Cold Sore

...The oligarchy but an orgy 
We’ve never kissed a toad so warty
Hoping for a prince
Puckered with a wince
While they make the sieg heil sporty



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Gendered

...It starts in the little things,
A man's suit,
A floral dress,
Pretty pink bows,
And ties to impress.

Segregated lines,
To stand in before class,
Rough and sporty,
Or hands delicate glass.
...

sighs

...We’re coming up on the spooky pumpkin-latte season, when days suddenly end, while I’m busy in some sterile, fluorescent chemistry-lab and there’s nothing to do but walk down dark science-hill to the ...

Black Apollo

...People watch figure
Attracts everyone
Motivate body care
Sculpting soul capture.

Black is beautiful
Chocolatey smooth
Healthy, sporty
Pure esthetic.

Dark-skinned Apollo
Living sculpture
...

SARTORIAL

...SARTORIAL

I went through my clothes the other day
Yes, some are well-worn, others quite new
They represent styles from both extremes
Living, or once lived, a varied life it seems
Can one assum...

Mouse or Mountain

...
   In childhood me a tiny timid mouse,
   paying unimportant role  at house.
    Day by day personality arouse.

     Dreamed to grow up as mountain.
     Circumstances didn’t entertain
     ...

disaster

...Such a disaster

self-tanning cream
the pride of looking sporty
the mirror pulls face

deep philosophy
the poet is in deep water
saved by çow tide 

one type of success 
when work brings h...

Grandma Forms Her Own Sports Team

...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 what?
Not sure yet, she said, but you may...

BLAME

...
  “A man can fall many times, but he is not a failure until he begins to blame 
    somebody else.   …..John Burroughs

     
                 When you fail, none to blame
                  bu...

Golden Years In the Golden State

...driving our kids west . . .
our past life vanishing in
the rear view mirror

I don’t recall many details about our move to California. My husband’s job had transferred him two states over to Cali...

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