Basketball Poems - Examples of all types of basketball poetry to share and read. This list of basketball poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Whether you like coaching, watching, or playing b-ball or hoops you know that it is a beautiful, poetically athletic, and artistic sport. From rim-shaking dunks to Michael Jordan like ballet, NBA or college basketball is inspirational. Basketball is not a sport; it's a lifestyle. Read
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Love JonesBefore my first kiss or chivalrous embrace
A throbbing pulse in my heart started to race
Sweetly my love for you began to grow
Knickerbockers I love to watch and I never miss the Lake
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Categories:
america, appreciation, art, basketball,
Form: Acrostic
Star-Shine
‘Star’ Caitlin Clark
Media-created Monster
Pity her, almost
She’s white, so she’s ‘right’
'Next coming' of Larry Bird
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Categories:
basketball, hyperbole, sad, star,
Form: Senryu
Do Not Wish Upon This Star
When you hitch your wagon to a new star
you best make sure she’s up to par
For if she fails, your wagon’s unhitched
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Categories:
basketball, star,
Form: Rhyme
Pledging Allegiance to Caitlin Clark
Caitlin Clark this, Caitlin Clark that
your name is magic, you're the Cat in the Hat
You’ve got folks so mesmerized
they...
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Categories:
basketball, irony, magic, star,
Form: Couplet
Keep Shooting, Caitlin
Shot after shot after shot
Caitlin’s red-hot
Swish, swish, swish; the net barely moves
Caitlin feels it; she’s in the groove
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Categories:
addiction, basketball, cry, emotions,
Form: Couplet
LeapI set out on a journey to appease my soul and honor the deity, but I got caught in a rift and almost fell from the cliff. I was caught between the tree and the...
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Categories:
america, april, basketball, bereavement,
Form: Narrative
The LegendJust about every morning, I see him there,
A solitary figure on the basketball court.
He is shooting free throw after free throw,
And most of them go in, but some do not....
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Categories:
basketball, memory,
Form: Free verse
Small Quirks. . . Elementary
Little Wrinkled Nose -- The
Way We Like It . . ....
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Categories:
basketball, best friend, boat,
Form: Senryu
Defining Certain Sports
Basketball's considered a 'contact sport'
Football is a 'sport of collision'
Hunting animals 'for sport'
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Categories:
animal, basketball, football, how
Form: Rhyme
The KingShall I compare myself to my king,
My humble lord Lebron,
With his 4 rings,
His Lakers jersey he dawns,
With his shot point average so high,
The world without him,
I would surely die,
His time all spent training in the...
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Categories:
angel, basketball, best friend,
Form: Sonnet
Caitlin Who
Caitlin Who?
Girl's yet to hear a boo.
Let her play pro ball for a few years ~
GOAT wannabes...
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Categories:
basketball, cry, time,
Form: Clerihew
They Don't Make Buddies Like Us Anymore
He called me 'Kike'
I called him 'Wop'
At two-on-two basketball
We two were tops
No pair could beat us
in the whole city
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Categories:
basketball, nostalgia, success,
Form: Rhyme
March MadnessGame day snacks were on my mind
as I quickly got into the check out line.
March Madness enlivened a cold, gray day
and made me impatient with any delay.
Still, my line was express so I had no...
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Categories:
basketball, introspection, march, spring,
Form: Couplet
LaughingstockI made the bet on who’d win the game
the Bulls looked great; my team played quite lame
dressed in clown’s clothes
with a red clown nose
the whole office will laugh without shame
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Categories:
basketball, clothes, feelings, games,
Form: Limerick
Another Day, Another Miracle
Yesterday, down twenty-two to one
The Chicago Bulls, that game won
Miracles occur daily
The impossible may take a wee bit
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Categories:
basketball, miracle,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Basketball Poems
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acrostic, art, cinquain, concrete, free verse, funny, haiku, limerick, inspirational, lebron james, life, love, march madness, michael jordan, nba, rhyme, school, simile, sneakers, sonnet, spring, sports, winter,
and more.
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