Sport Uplifting Poems

We've heard of ALS
as "Lou Gehrig's disease"
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
a cause to pray on our knees

But Lou Gehrig felt he was
"the luckiest man on earth"*
the Yankees,...

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You may be smart, you may be plain, 
Or someone who hides well their pain, 
Ev'n if you feel you are a geek, 
Remember God...

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I will stop reminiscing over the 1700s when the 2000s stop mirroring the same values
plantations upgraded to prisons, chains to handcuff, masters to head leaders...

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I never really played a sport. 
Everyday a new battle is fought. 
Although I want to compete. 
I walk and trip over my own feet....

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Surf’s up,
Heads are down,
Timing their move,
Concentrated frown,
Salt lips,
Hard swallow,
Adrenalin pumping, 
There is no tomorrow,
The white horses charge,
Their chariots follow,
Surfing speeding waves,
Above a spray crested hollow,
For...

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When I was seventh-grade in school
It was my childhood paradise dream
To be a chess champion in the campus
To be the best, you have to beat...

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Sandy Koufax, Hank Greenberg and Sean Green were Jewish baseball stars
Green wrote a book called "The Way of Baseball" - applying Zen to the sport
I...

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Shopping is a sport for the young
All it means to me now
Is nonchalant window shopping 
But every once in a while
I am struck in breathless...

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Blueberry Festival In Sioux Lookout

Travel north off the Trans-Canada
On Highway seventy-two,
And cross the Frog Rapid Narrows
Of the English River system
To enter Sioux Lookout,
On Pelican Lake,
‘Hub...

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A lion when hungry

Is a dangerous thing

But to think a fed lion

Is not as dangerous

Is truly fool hardy

But a lion is not greedy

And doesn't kill...

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In no particular order
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland 
But together Great Britain

I have never been to Scotland.
Wales or Northern Ireland as well.
That’s because I’m...

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The basement Trolls were helping my Hubby clean up it’s watery Lake.
The rain falling outside, was too much, for our basement walls to take.
Moving boxes,...

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This sport, a passion of mine,
My teammates, all better than I,
Will I ever get recognition?
Hard work, part of my life as the air I breathe,
To...

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Before the drought
I loved this land
From North to South
And every sand

The mountains high
The serried trees
The azure sky
And fragrant breeze

Poincianna flame
Lime Kiln burning
The children's game
Maypole turning

And...

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DO you want to know what i hate ? i hate how when a man sleeps with a whole bunch of girls
hes a pimp and...

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