Unsportsmanlike Behavior
...If you read the reviews
And review the reports,
You'll conclude I'm a dude
Who is no good at sports.
At badminton, lawn darts, or table tennis,
No record of my name's in that book by Guinness.
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Categories:
unsportsmanlike, humor, sports,
Form: Light Verse
Best Sports Poems V
...These are the best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part V
Just Smile
by Michael R. Burch
We'd like to think some angel smiling down
will watch him as his arm bleeds in the yard,
ripped of...
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Categories:
unsportsmanlike, america, baseball, basketball, boxing
Form: Rhyme
Of Infinity
...Of infinity
there is much left unsaid,
unfathomable it is to think
of a last frontier for the
purest tongue there is.
Would it not be then,
the limit to our invincible minds,
tha...
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Categories:
unsportsmanlike, god, math, science,
Form: Free verse
Teddy Bears
...He was known as a rough rider and a big game hunter to boot
but he’s probably more famous for the bear he didn’t shoot.
When his companions tied one to a tree
Teddy Roosevelt thought it would be...
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Categories:
unsportsmanlike, inspiration,
Form: Verse
Unsportsmanlike
...Growing up playing sports
I was raised to compete
Confront face to face
not hide and seek
it’s unsportsmanlike
to slyly sneak
If you haven’t played sport
that word may lack meaning
it ...
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Categories:
unsportsmanlike, character, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
Teddy Bears
...Do you know why they're called “Teddy Bears”
After Theodore Roosevelt, because Teddy cared
A captured bear, he refused to kill
A kindness remembered still
Quite “unsportsmanlike” he was h...
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Categories:
unsportsmanlike, history,
Form: Limerick
Knocking On Your Dreams Door
...>>1111>>Knocking on your dreams door<<1111<<
I write for the listeners, I invite poetic winners winning,
Yeah, an Illmatic stunner here to stun, start running,
My dramatic art hitting the...
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Categories:
unsportsmanlike, allegory, angel, dream, imagination,
Form: Epic
Unsportsmanlike Conduct
...Such violent acts going on in the N.F.L.
And all glossed over by Roger Goodell
In seeing the tape of Ray Rice's knockout
Rodger didn't see any wrong in such a bout
Then when Mr. Peterson beat ...
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Categories:
unsportsmanlike, violence, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Insider Dealing (Co-Written With James Fraser)
...You say you're open to negotiation
But you're truly guilty by association
Keep on picking the altruistic pocket
Startling victims like a pin in a socket
A level playing field is what we must pl...
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Categories:
unsportsmanlike, angst, people
Form: Quatrain