Have you written that basketball poem yet?

"a poem is a collaboration between the writer and the poem itself" (paraphrasing Carol Ann Duffy)

Basketball Blues

I'm bouncing the ball against a brick wall

I've got nowhere to go

The basketball is mine

I don't want to be mean I don't want

to bounce this ball alone

I'm bouncing the ball against a brick wall

in the rain in the rain again in

me, my heart

I'm slamming the ball into puddles

I'm kicking the ball in the mud

I don't want to be mean no more

I want to pass the ball to you

I don't want to lose again

I'm bouncing the ball against a brick wall

when the clouds break

and the sun paints the wall pink

I'm bouncing the ball against a painting

of roses I don't want to be mean

I'm going to send the ball over

the wall to your hands

and you might

forgive me     

a leaf covered in sparkling round raindrops