football
Poem for Soccer Sunday
Sunday March 25 12:15 Filed in: Poem
I know it’s unusual, but here is a poem for football (soccer) enthusiasts.
Football
Every night I
Sit at the computer and
Watch goals from half-centre
Like Wayne Rooney’s cracker
Or a Beckhaming bender
Le Tissier’s sweet sizzlers
Di Canio’s flying scissors
Some Ruud from the area
After Touré malaria
A Cantona chip
And a Keaner clip
Nutmegging Gaúcho
Zidane’s header on Marco
The flyer from Scholes
Or Old Master’s Dutch goals
Then Pelé the Conquera
Handing on to Maradona
Impossibilities from Carlos
Christianities from Ronaldos
Aging Teddy
Young Thierry
Crouching taller
Shorting Sneijder
Messi Del Piero
Rummenigge
Negrete Okocha or
Tony Yeboah
They are strikes from the past
Our love kicks in the grass
And like you—in your absence
I connect on your passes
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