Range (an acrostic poem)

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Risking it all on a forty-footer

And as the basketball left her hand, the clocks went to all zeroes

Now it was now all physics, the skill was already committed

Google clutch, and it would show this shot if it goes in

Everyone waited seemingly forever as the ball bounced on the rim once, twice…

Lion (an acrostic poem)

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Like being the king of my domain

I prowl back and forth, roaring to show how big and bad I am

Oh sure I may be scary and intimidating with all these sharp teeth, but

No one said I wouldn’t play with a ball of yarn if given a chance.

Trials (an acrostic poem)

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The start to an ordeal is never easy

Reaching down deep to find the follow through can be painful

It can make you want to turn back, give up, curl up in a ball

And yet, there is so much awaiting you on the other end of it all

Look, you know it won’t be easy but…

Success is usually worth the price of admission

Bowl (an acrostic poem)

 

Balls doing acrobatics down the hardwood lanes

Outside the second arrow trying to find the pocket

When in reality my ball does what it wants

Leaving me more pins than I can spare.

 

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Hyper (an acrostic poem)

How many times can you hit that ball off the wall?

You getting annoyed by it?

Please, for goodness sake, yes!

Even if I change the rhythm?

Reaching out and grabbing the ball.  “Enough!”

 

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Renew (an acrostic poem)

Releasing a string of curses

Everything was going wrong

Now he looked at the ball as it began to fall

Eventually, the world would know his incompetence

When the ball landed one second early

 

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Feud (an acrostic poem)

Francisco pulled out his putter and gave his brother the bird

Every year this golf game determines the honor of who hosted Christmas.

Under that sort of pressure, Francisco watched his brother step to the ball

Don’t you know it.  Francisco sneezed just as his brother swung

Turf (an acrostic poem)

The ball tumbled to the ground, forgotten for the moment

Under the garish yellow streetlights the batter still took a swing

Ravaging the Demon’s knife man’s rib cage with a sickening thud

Finally the contest was called on the account of sirens

 

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Heft (an acrostic poem)

Heavy thoughts weighed down Dan’s mind

Events had thrown him a massive curve ball

Forgoing self-preservation, Dan channeled his inner daemons

To hell with them all, Dan was going to heave it all away

Fortune (an acrostic poem)

Feeling lucky I placed everything on double zero

Oblivious to the gasps at the table, I sat back contented

Reaching for the roulette wheel, the croupier set it spinning

The ball was sent orbiting in the opposite direction

Under my breath I started to pray

Needless to say I cursed when it landed on red 32

Everyone felt sorry for me, but I didn’t care.  I had stolen that money