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A Football Poem
A football poem
Should hit hard
Like a nose guard,
Or spiral through the sky
Like a down-and-out pass
On real grass.
A football poem
Should score
Inside the five
On fourth and four.
A football poem
Should sweat, talk trash, and grunt…
Or punt.
~ J. Patrick Lewis,
from Countdown to Summer:
A Poem for Every Day of the School Year
I am not a football fan myself, yet I love this poem! I especially like how Mr. Lewis uses rhyme and football lingo to give his poem the feel of the sport.
I haven't come across too many poems about football in all of my reading. Can you think of an uncommon poetry subject that you could write about?
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