The Sport of the 21st Century Immortalized in Verse

All the kids in Andrew’s school (K-6) were tasked with writing poems for the “DBU Lab School Book of Poetry”. One the styles that they had a choice of using was a “Name Poem”, where you take something you’re interested in, and write a poem using the first letters of that word to begin each line of the poem. There were name poems on “BASEBALL”, “CHEERLEADER”, “SOCCER” and the like, but check out my young son’s entry:

The ball is flying Really, really fast!!! A raging battle goes on Comes down to this… Blasting the ball And making it curve. Life saving shots, Look at the ball, and how it swerves.

Anyone who has never played the Sport of the 21st Century, or at least seen “Tron”, would probably consider it nonsensical at best, but reading this was one of my proudest moments as a father!