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Ode to Football

Apollo Gees

Friday, March 18th, 2005

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Forty odd years now
running at
your side, football.
At first
you tripped me up, repeatedly
and I fell to earth
muddied but unfazed
as desperate, as any lovelorn,
to arise and chase you again.
And then
as my eyes sparkled
at the brightest stars on view
their majesty
became my kingdom.
Later I wallowed
in your muddied charms
as you pulled me to your bosom
and nourished me,
the Earth mother
to my ‘need a pass’ complex craving. *

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 Lovely
it was,
while I was physically able,
to be part
of the partaking.

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 The poetry of it all,
I try to translate now.

© Apollo Gees, 18th March 2005

Notes

Inspired by the poem ‘Ode to Poetry’ by the Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda.

* sorry, bad pun on ‘Oedipus’

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/ode-to-football/