Sports Poems - Examples of all types of sports poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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ONE GOALThe habit of winning
by just one goal
one nil one nil
a defensive clean sheet
brings victory so sweet...
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Categories:
football, sports, success,
Form: Rhyme
Pitbull Martial ArtsThe roughest, toughest to ever enter the Octagon/
Beating the competition to a pulp, is what I be on/
I do not cut slack, my combinations are vicious/
They hit you back to back, the impact is stupendous/
Your...
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Categories:
sports, career, character, courage, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Proud MomentIt doesn't matter whether
You come first or second
The difference is this:
Did you try your best
Sometimes we win
Sometimes we loss
This is part of life....
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Categories:
games, life, sports,
Form: Light Verse
sumo wrestlingsumo wrestling
corpulent men wearing diapers
what kind of people watch this?
I stare as one gets flopped with his enormous legs in the air
Showing more than I ever wanted to see...
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Categories:
sports,
Form: Free verse
Saturday AfternoonWatching the cricket.
The oval looks great
Home team in green shirts
Visitors in blue
Scoreboard looming large
Sitting to long
Butt getting sore
Bench is to hard
Heading for home
Kitchen noise
Crash and bang
Pots clatter
Cooking
Goulash
Dinner
...
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Categories:
food, sports,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Baseball Facts in a SongHow many stitches does a baseball have?
One hundred and eight
One hundred and eight
One hundred and eight
To know this is super, more than a little bit great.
A baseball is retired after six pitches in professional ball
In...
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Categories:
sports,
Form: Rhyme
Football crazy Exiles u13s 2024 to 2025 season
Football crazy Exiles u13s 2024/25 season
They're football crazy,
they're football mad,
Ipswich Exiles U13s,
the best they’ve ever had.
With speed and grit,
determination true,
Strength in all areas,
they play to rule.
Our top goal scorer,
a year younger but bold,
His...
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Categories:
sports, childhood, class, confidence, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
The Taste of Blood
Categories:
sports,
Form: Senryu
A Prison of EmotionsYou may engage in your work
Be engrossed with your friends
Travel around the world
Play a lot of games
But it's hard to escape your mind
A prison, full of emotions.
...
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Categories:
sports, analogy, angst, emotions, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Santa versus The Grouch'Twas the night before Christmas, and there sat the Grouch,
waiting for Santa and his present filled pouch.
I'm sure that all of you have heard of the Grinch,
but the Grouch is far worse, at least by one...
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Categories:
christmas, holiday, humor, sports,
Form: Rhyme
BIZZY TEAMProfessional editors and writers
sorted through the content.
They found Christmas as
the primary source for
both
thanksgiving and New Years.
they also found
that by allowing the poorest folk
to make money during this time of year
helps generate local economies.
Founded through the...
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Categories:
sports, america, hip hop, marriage,
Form: Ballade
Star-struck
Watching the Winter Olympics from afar
I wish I were an ice-skating star
To soar and twirl, leap up to...
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Categories:
dream, hope, sports, star,
Form: Couplet
Goodbye Old Friend
Goodbye old friend
You've been such a part of us all
Of every correct and incorrect call
A diamond for the girls
The boys made it to first base
Heroes were born here
Zeroes too
A place with many faces
The home of...
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Categories:
sports, baseball, culture, farewell, in
Form: Rhyme
Life Is Not A SprintLoving someone is just like running
You two try your best
To get used to each other
You make every effort to run
It's okey for the first lap
You keep your strength at the second
What about next
Life is...
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Categories:
life, metaphor, perspective, sports,
Form: Free verse
Flute and CitoleHer sound functioned in the chorus
of onlooker in my defeat.
Might the Strumb of Kokopelli
danced to the songs of Shiva
and Bragi. I smiled days later
that my retribution might silence
the celebrations
of night. I watched four seven days
while...
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Categories:
sports, appreciation, celebration, culture, encouraging,
Form: Ballade
Specific Types of Sports Poems
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