Basketball Couplet Poems

     He’d done this hundreds of times
      Step up to the line and make two dimes*

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   Unparalleled, his heady play
     court vision like a night-hawk
         ...

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   Caitlin Clark this, Caitlin Clark that
     your name is magic, you're the Cat in the Hat

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   Shot after shot after shot
     Caitlin’s red-hot

   Swish, swish, swish; the net barely moves
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Game 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...

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Way back when I was a cager                  ...

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Old-time fans called him 'The Great White Hope'
    Larry Bird had to 'walk the tightrope'
  He was no dope; he knew...

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Our games define us, who we are
    by which ones are most popular

  First comes football, all blood and gore*
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Oh, today is friendship day..
It's all my friends, I say 'Hey' !!
Oh, it's fall
Let us all play with the balls.

Oh, now it's time to play...

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Fifty-seven years I'd trusted my pins*                   ...

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They've thrown down the gauntlet
The Asians have a golf 'major' now won
Hideki Matsuyama, Masters Tournament Champion
The first from the Land of the Rising Sun

Ms. Naomi...

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COMING HOME


God, let me come home to you.
I did my best on earth, I promise
you!


I want to live with my Lord and
Master.
This earth with witless...

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Oft-times I dreamed I'd save the day
Victory snatch in a miraculous way
A last-second full-court heave
Swishing through as opponents grieve

Such stirring game-time reveries
My private universe, fancy-free
Alas,...

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FIFA To Me

If this be the nineteen sixties,
A new state that is, Hawaii.

What know we, of soccer to be,
Ice skating, where it is sunny?

Neither sport...

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The world was a troubled place in the '80's, home to a number of disasters
   From the plight of Iran's hostages to the...

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