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Football Sun and Shadow

P Maguire

Sunday, February 24th, 2013

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Are you Neruda? Lorca? Desnos?
Does the burning heart of their wisdom
Trace the blood of your heart
Are you man alone?
What dreams gather pace in the journey
Of your blood
What fugitive’s glory binds your boots with flames,
Oh solitary man…

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 There is a universe in your dark eyes
Children try to copy the patterns of your greatness
Your name scribbled ink across the back
Of their shirts, they wear your number and yours alone
Their limbs never tire of the dirt
And broken glass that crouches for the mistimed tackle
The desparing lunge that traps dreams, and chokes glory
Are you only man? or merchandise?

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Are you Moore? Pele? Maradona?
Each an Emperor a King a Prince
Such poets these with burning brightness
Dazzling the eyes and throats of the terrace
And the fallen Angel holds out his hand
His oustretched fingers, neither fist nor prayer
Coiled in the Hand of Scopa.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/football-sun-and-shadow/