Tag Archives: Sports

Lebron James, Poetry in Motion

By Robin Bates | Published: March 8, 2014

A Kent Cartright poem to celebrate Lebron’s 61 points.

By Robin Bates | Published: February 22, 2014

A Robert Bly prose poem about hockey to celebrate the exciting Olympics metal rounds.

By Robin Bates | Published: February 15, 2014

This wonderful Dacey poem about skating captures the other self we feel is just beyond the horizon–or beneath the ice.

By Robin Bates | Published: February 8, 2014

Peyton Manning was not Homer’s Odysseus but Tennyson’s Ulysses.

By Robin Bates | Published: February 1, 2014

Tomorrow’s Super Bowl drama may be forces of order vs. forces of chaos. Or it may involve Denver trying to outwit a trickster Puck-like team.

By Robin Bates | Published: January 21, 2014

A passage in the Odyssey forecasts that Peyton Manning will win the Super Bowl.

By Robin Bates | Published: January 7, 2014

The Cincinnati Bengals losing to San Diego is like Shere Khan losing to Mowgli.

By Robin Bates | Published: January 4, 2014

The Philadelphia Eagles bring to mind Tennyson’s eagle, falling like a thunderbolt.

By Robin Bates | Published: December 28, 2013

The excitement over Peyton Manning is like that of the townspeople for Thorin Oakenshield in “The Hobbit.”