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REAL BASKETBALL STARS, a poem by Rachel Ann Roskey, Canada Other Basketball Poems Other Inspirational Poems, Motivational Poems DUAL CATEGORY THIS POET COUNTRIES Categories: Basketball Poems & Inspirational Poems, Motivational Poetry Viewed 43214 times Author: Rachel Ann Roskey, Canada Share Poem REAL BASKETBALL STARS I Grab My Jersey And My Shoes I Am Going To A Game That I Will Not Lose I Put On My T-Shirt And Throw On My Shorts Because Today I Will Play On The Basketball Courts I Am Going To Play With My Basketball Team We're Going To Win Gold, Or So It May Seem I Practice My Lay-ups, Dribbling And Shot I Shoot It And Score, It Was Right On The Dot Now I Went In A Little Cocky, Because We Began To Lose But My Team Will Not, No Way, We Refuse So As I Became Angry, Also A One Man Team I Got A Foul And Of Course Wanted To Scream Half Time Came And My Coach Told Us To Bring It In How Could We Lose, We Needed To Win We Pulled It Together, And We Became A Squad I Pleaded And Prayed To The One And Only God There Was 5 Seconds Left, It Was A Tied Game Jamie Passed It To Sam, And We Tried For Our Fame She Tested For That Lay-up And Did Miss But That Was That And This Is This That Was Two Years Ago And I Have Learned One Thing Work As A Team And Success It Shall Bring Click to purchase Print 66393 0 Other Author Poems Recent Site Documents What type of Valentine do you wish to have? 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THE BEST SPORTS ON EARTH P.R.C 10/27/2009 7:47:19 PM N/A I love it. I am doing an oral presentation where we have to say a poem to the class *Boring!* *Hard!* Anyway, I chose this poem. Thankyou so much for making it! N/A 10/14/2009 4:37:05 AM DORIAN I REALLY LIKED THAT POEM IT REALLY MAKES ME THINK ABOUT BASKETBALL WHICH IS ALSO MY FAVORITE SPORT YOU SHOULD KEEP WRITTING. USA-MONTGOMERY, AL 6/8/2009 11:30:03 PM daniel macdonald thats awesome UK 5/29/2009 2:09:12 PM Crusader Captain This is a great poem, keep up the good work! (: I just made team captain! (: United states 5/7/2009 4:58:28 PM nick that was a really good poem and i can definetely relate. 4/27/2009 1:57:38 PM Pretty boy, ivan I like basketball alot so i think this poem is awsome i expecialy like the rhyming in this poem. Canada 4/6/2009 2:06:14 PM Chilly Cruz Great poem! Serves as an inspiration to my 11 year old who is in love with basketball! USA 3/26/2009 9:03:27 PM Ans It rocks Wi 2/18/2009 10:16:53 PM rebecca morales this poem rox my socks off and its tottally true =)))))))MEGA SMILE USA 10/6/2008 11:38:29 PM this is a good poem 9/3/2008 1:37:49 PM Dalia Sebaei I Enjoyed Your So Inspiring Pensive Poem...I Believed In "Work As A Team And Success It Shall Bring " Right You Are ... Egypt 8/27/2008 10:48:53 AM rachel thomas i like ur poem it really gives people hope menifee co , ky 6/2/2008 9:07:18 PM jalen team unity always works. usa 4/9/2008 1:52:29 PM mellie it rocks United States of America 4/7/2008 9:06:02 PM mellie i love this poem very much i love it good job it rocks!!!!!!! United States of America 4/7/2008 9:05:11 PM JoHnNy LoVe ThE PoEm!!! ThOuGhT iT wAs HoT!!! iT's AbOuT BaSkEtBaLl aNd WiNnInG tHe gAmE!!! BeAuTiFul AnD FaNtAsTiC UnItEd StAtEs 2/5/2008 9:52:03 PM JoHnNy LoVe ThE PoEm!!! ThOuGhT iT wAs HoT!!! :) iT's AbOuT BaSkEtBaLl aNd WiNnInG tHe gAmE!!! :') UnItEd StAtEs 2/5/2008 9:51:06 PM max power it is good nobody likes to lose.winning is the goal neverland 8/21/2007 6:30:12 PM Ibrahim Bello Excellent, humorous, well done! Nigeria 6/14/2007 3:02:11 PM Ibrahim Bello This was beautiful. I loved the humuor. I guess it was a real life event, for it would have been a better write if your team had won. Best of luck in your subsequent games! Nigeria 6/14/2007 3:00:09 PM sam mangakahia thats soo true what happens thats what happen in our final but we lost aus 5/24/2007 6:30:59 AM alexus love this cuz it relates to everything united states 5/13/2007 12:33:22 AM Monkey I love this poem!!! 5/10/2007 9:05:53 AM Joanna This pOEM iS VERY Cool!!! 5/10/2007 9:04:23 AM JESSICA IT NICE TUCSON,AZ 5/7/2007 12:40:41 PM shack this poem so totally rocks man like seriously who ever wrote this poem is a genius by the way i am a total basketball freak and player this is from shack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so consider yourself lucky and famous ??????????????/// minnesota 5/3/2007 6:34:31 PM Rakiya That poem was really toching i can really feel what you mean ,i kmow thats right,where you wrote "WORK AS A TEAM AND SUCCESS IT SHALL BRING". kansas City 4/13/2007 1:11:23 PM L.W.K. Can you give me a short bio. I need it for an English project. I have to have poems all on one subject and mine is basketball. USA 4/12/2007 10:44:20 PM L.W.K. I am doing an English project and we have to have a bunch of poems that are on 1 subject. Mine is basketball. I need a short bio on the author of each poem. Can you help me. USA 4/12/2007 10:43:12 PM Rachael That's what I'm talking about! This poem is awesome! Illinois 4/11/2007 6:57:12 PM Dezmond Hensley i loved this poem Virginia 3/21/2007 5:54:50 PM     Send this poem to your Friends and Family           Use the following form to support the author by sending this poem to your friends, family and co-workers. Each time that you forward this poem to another friend of yours, the poet will earn marketing credits to get their poem pages displayed even more on the Internet.    Your Name:    Friend's Email:    Note:         Have this poem read to you by one of our Poets! 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