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The LeBron James Poetry Contest will unite a troubled nation

Oct 18, 2010, 5:42 PM EDT

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Attention Dee Mirich! Poetry contest alert! The world’s most prolific writer of horseracing prose, Dee Mirich, wouldn’t have to alter her writing style much to get in on this: It’s the LeBron James Poetry Contest. From the Miami Herald, which totally is not joking about this:

The Miami Herald and WLRN is proud to announce a city-wide poetry contest to commemorate the arrival of LeBron James to Miami and the beginning of the 2010-11 Miami Heat basketball season.

Rules:</blockquote

* Poem must commemorate the arrival of LeBron James to Miami

* The poem can utilize any form but cannot exceed six lines (LeBron’s jersey is No. 6)

* No limit to the number of poems you can submit

* The entry must be received by Friday, October 22 at 6 p.m.

And I see we already have some entries! See them, and add yours, following the jump.


From The Basketball Jones:

LeBron James in Miami, Oh, such a treat/
LeBron James in Miami, rejoice in the street/
LeBron James in Miami, he brought his friends/
LeBron James in Miami, let’s see how this ends/
LeBron James in Miami, headband and all/
Zydrunas Ilgauskas, both skinny and tall

Ball Don’t Lie:
“What rhymes with ‘yikes’?”
Official entry form here.
And I’m sure that Mrs. Mirich is hard at work as we speak. It will probably end up exactly like this:
From God’s Loving Heart
Beautiful Jump Shots
Dwyane Wade custody battle
Mystical, The Decision
No rings, though
Love Is A Rainbow……..screw……..Cleveland……..
Affirmed
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Don’t Throw Away Your LeBron James-Inspired Poetry Just Yet, There’s A Contest [Sportress of Blogitude]

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  1. Rick Chandler - Oct 18, 2010 at 8:18 PM

    Barbaro With LeBron At The Rainbow Bridge. All, All Love. Affirmed. All, All Beautiful Glowing Rainbows To Miami. God’s So All Beautiful Three Amigos. Time To Bring The Donuts……… Halos…….. Affirmed. Posted by: Dee Mirich at Oct. 18, 2010 5:17 PM

  2. PeteJayhawk - Oct 18, 2010 at 8:53 PM

    Yeah, you think this is crazy? Just wait until LeBron develops laminitis.

  3. FLBJ - Oct 19, 2010 at 2:03 PM

    The Chosen One, with all his might, has made a wrong he cannot right;
    Miami won him in the end, and now he’s just a Super Friend.
    It’s glitzy beach is a mirage; the NBA ain’t ‘Entourage’.
    The Alpha Dog he’ll never be, is what we fans wanted to see.
    We hope he’s made a huge mistake; hope Cleveland won’t fall in the lake.
    For now, we’ve found another chant, for MVP: “DURANT! DURANT!”

  4. Yeung - Oct 20, 2010 at 12:27 AM

    Past has left
    The king has arrived
    Haters keeping hating
    Lovers watch the king
    The crown tells it all

  5. bovice23 - Oct 20, 2010 at 12:33 PM

    My managers a thug, my moms a ho
    I embarassed myself on my own ESPN show.
    I talk in third person
    I use kids as props.
    I’ll quit on South Beach
    CLEVELAND ROCKS

  6. billbillions - Oct 20, 2010 at 4:23 PM

    Roses are red,
    Violets are blue.
    LeBron James is brown,
    Dwyane Wade is too.

  7. booobs33 - Oct 20, 2010 at 9:23 PM

    So long Cleveland it is I you’ll be missin
    Cause tonight is the night I make my decision
    Betrayal not talent i most greatly possess
    I really don’t care so just give it a rest
    To Miami I travel and win we just might
    But in my mind I know…I’ll never be mike

  8. J. Milone - Oct 20, 2010 at 10:29 PM

    Welcome to Miami like Will Smith said,
    Get them to the playoffs and then play dead.
    Stay out of Ohio, no one wants you back,
    Seven years of spinnin’ our wheels like Pat Sajak.
    Hoping for a hurricane to take you out to sea,
    We can name it Karma, and it can take both you and Z.

  9. J. Milone - Oct 20, 2010 at 10:55 PM

    The King is now in South Beach, although he has no throne,
    He needs D. Wade to help do what he couldn’t do alone.
    What he did to Cleveland he will one day have to atone,
    Better off without him now that his character he has shown.
    I am a peaceful man and violence I don’t condone,
    But I hope he breaks a leg when he returns to Quicken Loan.

  10. J. Milone - Oct 20, 2010 at 11:30 PM

    Go Lebron Go, as in go play for the Heat,
    At playoff time you move like you got weights tied to your feet.
    Seven years and no rings is an impressive feat,
    The only ring that you deserve now is a toilet seat.
    Now that you are gone its as if our roster’s incomplete,
    Hopefully in the next draft we can get a new deadbeat.

  11. J. milone - Oct 21, 2010 at 12:13 AM

    Why’d you have to go Lebron, you made us all so sad…
    You didn’t want to stay with Delonte, your new step-dad?
    For months you left us hangin’ on like a hanging chad,
    An hour show on ESPN, is that too long? A tad.
    So off you went to Miami with your Lithuanian comrade,
    Now you have no hometown, you’re a choke-artist nomad.

  12. J. Milone - Oct 21, 2010 at 12:37 AM

    Unite a nation? Sorry folks, but these poems won’t help do that.
    Thats like asking us to make Al-Qaeda friends while in combat.
    Like making friends with gravity as you fall and go ker-Splat!
    Like hanging out with whole milk when you know you’re nonfat.
    So don’t expect us to all be pals like West and Lebron’s mom,
    If you want friends go join MySpace and see a guy named Tom.

  13. Ben - Oct 21, 2010 at 7:02 PM

    He was once Clevlands King
    meant to finally give them a ring
    but instead he gave broken wings

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