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Touchdown Poems - Poems about Touchdown

Premium Member streams of mud
...streams of mud we played in shallow streams of muck where there was no black, no white we were all mud-packed kids crusty-skinned little boys who knew the sludge would wash away when ......

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Categories: touchdown, black love, childhood, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Neanderthal Land
... I must report that the Professor of Anthropology was more interested in how extinct prehistoric man, more specifically, Neanderthals, lived and why they didn’t survive. They seem bigger with bigge......

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Categories: touchdown, adventure,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Great Receivers
...Quick cuts Shows guts Fast feet Cuts neat Jumps high Runs by Good fakes Smooth shakes Knows routes Runs south Sure hands Wide span Knows plays Speed pays On time No fines......

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Categories: touchdown, football,
Form: Footle
Premium Member The Brotherly Shove
... The "Brotherly Shove" also known as the "Tush Push" works for the Eagles. When they need some short yardage for a first down or touchdown. ......

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Categories: touchdown, football, sports,
Form: Tanka
Keeping Score
...The bartender strolls from one end of the counter to the other. She makes small talk with regulars who watch NFL games on screens and a college basketball game plays on another. For each touchd......

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Categories: touchdown, baseball, basketball, culture, football,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Coming Down to Earth Grounded
...I see a clearing It's big enough to land in The grass is short No rocks or bumps It's all clear for landing My heart beats in panic Tears of sweat run down my face Fear grips my body In exp......

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Categories: touchdown, flying,
Form: Free verse
Are you ready for some Football
...Are you ready? I mean, are you REALLY ready for some football? Are you ready for some yelling, some fun, some cussing, some drinking, partying and tailgating? Are you ready for some fussing, so......

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Categories: touchdown, celebration, city, emotions, football,
Form: Narrative
Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation
...Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation Otherwise titled deep into my fiftieth year of passive aggressive rebellious puberty. Yes, I chickened out getting a haircut yesterday August twen......

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Categories: touchdown, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member NOT TOO HARD TO FIND
... I’ve heard people say heroes are getting harder and harder to find You may call me idealistic But I find that message to be too gloomy, too dark and much too pessimistic. I found my first her......

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Categories: touchdown, hero,
Form: Rhyme
TransplanT
... Aided by the wind, entities take flight like prismatic colors- talismanning chanced direction "of watering misfit eye", looking for a new place to touchdown and......

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Categories: touchdown, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Junk Drawer
... The junk drawer of my mind processes MOMENTO, like golden Ark Dulcimer, Cimbalom that shatters the font of unfinished sound, into pixels of mime, song bound, PUZZLE PIECE orchestrated by the ......

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Categories: touchdown, art,
Form: Other
Premium Member Splendour of the Fall
...Leaves commence the dance of splendour In illustrious September In colours of red, brown and gold The fall is glory to behold. What joy it is to stand and stare As autumnal trees ......

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Categories: touchdown, autumn, nature, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hawkeyes
...Herald the black and gold Helmet's ebony eye Heroes of Iowa Heartland fall warriors Hefty touchdown trophies Hometown game day glory Hawkeyes football is back! 9/02/23......

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Categories: touchdown, community, football, school,
Form: Pleiades
Imaginary Lover
...You don’t know me You did not know me then I watched you from afar You knew not where or when I turned up at your practice I saw you through the gate You stood behind the free-throw line You d......

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Categories: touchdown, 12th grade, age, baseball,
Form: Rhyme
What the Boys Thought
...When we were just young kids hanging around the one grocery store there was in town drinking Yoo-Hoo and chewing Bazooka Joe While we were joking, cussing and spitting playing baseball, swim......

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Categories: touchdown, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

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