High School Football Poems

High school football game
cheerleaders tossed night sky chill
rhythmic beat of drums
alumni and students roar
October's homecoming queen...

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You don’t know me
You did not know me then
I watched you from afar
You knew not where or when
I turned up at your practice
I saw you...

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I started out life as Anna Mae Bullock,                 ...

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Dear Mommy,                       ...

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Seems like only yesterday,
when I wore a white cap and gown.              ...

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Many years ago when we were all young,                          we dated looking for a...

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Friday night football lights
  His whole life high school sports
A rah-rah father behind him
  Overflowing his shorts

Covid-19 postponed many dreams
  And left...

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Smoke ‘em if you got them.
Save the bottles for return.
That hippie needs a haircut.
What the hell’s a Lady Bird?
My Christmas tree had bubble lights, 
My...

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awaken for school-dad is there with hot coffee


Date Written: 2/26/2021
Note: In junior high and high school my dad would wake me up each school day...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Poor Mikey
gave everything he had
for fifteen minutes under lights
(and they are expensive lights).
He went down not once but twice
in the same game with the same...

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green is not your color-envy is not your friend


 
Date Written: 9/2/2020
2 Place    My Most Unforgettable Moment in High School Contest ...

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The New York Giants 
are playing today
Watching football is exciting
Yes, it is violent 
and people get injured
But the players know what they
are getting into when...

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Seconds passes on,
tension grows stronger,
blood flowing faster,
heartbeat rises high,
Eyes search for answers.

Clouded by thoughts;
fear and anger
pumping inside.
The world clears out.

Tears clawing;
life long guard,
almost down.

Only
one thought;

who?...

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My Greatest Gift
 and Biggest Weakness

I recall my parents warning me, I was a little dense.
That my greatest gift and biggest weakness 
was that I...

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