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Best Football Poems

Below are the all-time best Football poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of football poems written by PoetrySoup members


Johnny Football
At Texas A & M, he played at quarterback.
The young man led a prolific offensive attack.
He gave up his last two years at college.
Apparently, he...

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Categories: football,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Craze During Football Game
CRAZE DURING FOOTBALL GAME

Up yellows; greens; reds and blue,
tell me! Tell me, who is through?
Passes. Crosses. Headers. Shots.
Volleys, blasters, more scissor kicks
tell me! Tell me,...

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Categories: appreciation, football, love, sports,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Females Finding Football Fame
For years the men have ruled the roost
so it’s high time ladies soccer got a boost
In July the winning team will lift the cup
it’ll be...

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Categories: football, humorous, sports, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Humility In America
It's said 100 million Americans watched the Superbowl, which like a religious event is held on Sunday. I wonder if 100 million Americans have ever...

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Categories: appreciation, football, god, humanity,
Form: Prose
World Cup
Our heroes roar
There they are
Flags held high
Voices raised too high
Eyes raised so high
Heads up in the sky
The spirit of football so much
They are our heroes
To...

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Categories: football, games, nostalgia, soccer,
Form: Verse



Game Day
Mighty Ducks win the game
Pass the ball perfect the play
There's so much riding on your fame
Men clad in armor win the day

The crowds are grumbling...

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Categories: football,
Form: Quatrain
Future Superstar
The world welcomes a newborn baby boy. 
To the mother and father, he is a bundle of joy. 
Right now of course, he is so...

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Categories: baby, basketball, football, future,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Super Bowl Day
They're playing in the bowl tomorrow
and we are so very proud.
We Seahawk fans are loyal
and also very loud.
We'll be settled by our TV sets
before the...

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Categories: football,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Dallas Cowboys
THE DALLAS COWBOYS

Can you not hear the rumblings of that distant herd coming,
The loud thundering of destiny’s champions crossing, the NFL
Field of dreams, beware the...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dedication, football, heart, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Superbowl Sunday
There’s a new American Holiday, guess what it is my football loving friends,
It’s a classical sport of champions, where helmet headed, game geared
Warriors challenge raw...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adventure, conflict, football, history,
Form: Free verse
The Rams
Royal blue and gold
needs to return to sunny
Los Angeles now!...

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© Jim Tidd  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: football,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member From First Ball To World Cup
I remember the first time I saw a ball,

Those exquisite black and white pentagons ...
     The geometric excellence that intimated such...

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Categories: childhood, football, soccer, sports,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Religious Man
I sat in church listening to the preacher
Without hearing a single word he said
I was thinking about the football scores
And my favorite team instead

As they...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: life, god, football, god,
Form: Rhyme
I Didn'T Hold Grudges
I suffered,he laughed
I filled up  his voids, he created mine.
I looked for roses,he gave cactus
I looked only for his heart,he focussed on my body
I...

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Categories: football, betrayal, boyfriend, feelings, first
Form: Ballad
Aztec Summer
The Mexican midsummer sun
beamed down mercilessly, vertically,
so that men's heads and shoulders glowed
but their faces, and every human expression,
disappeared, dark and intense in the radiant...

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Categories: dream, football, hero,
Form: Free verse

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