Poetry Prompt: The Taste of Sport

Grab a handful of popcorn and sit back, relax and watch a game. Sit on the couch and I'll try to pull up a sporting event for you to watch, hopefully a live event. As you watch, think about the experience, especially the taste of the popcorn and how it relates to the sport that you are watching. Here's an example of some "tasty" poetry.

"Getting a Taste for It"
by Kory Kern

The basketball is like a big
cheddar cheese ball.
It’s sides like the skin of an orange,
peeled by little black lines.
Round as a pizza, as it spins
through the air.
Speckled like the scales of a fish,
sliced and sizzling over the fire.
Every basket is a bite,
tasting of victory.

"August"
by Mary Oliver

When the blackberries hang
swollen in the woods, in the brambles
nobody owns, I spend

all day among the high
branches, reaching
my ripped arms, thinking

of nothing, cramming
the black honey of summer
into my mouth; all day my body

accepts what it is. In the dark
creeks that run by there is
this thick paw of my life darting among

the black bells, the leaves; there is
this happy tongue.