Dads Last Basketball Game
No author listed:
Karee Hashim
The poem
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Being the shortest in my high school gym class
Attempts to play basketball brought no success
Broke my finger while trying to catch a pass
Leaping to take balls from tall girls? What a mess!
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Always loved football, baseball and soccer too
But in basketball I succumbed to defeat
Just couldn’t get into it, that is true
Till Dad took me to see the Miami Heat
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Startled he was, watching me jump up and down
Although my enthusiasm was contrived
The cheers of other fans my loud voice did drown
This was the last time I saw my Dad alive
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I’m so thankful now that I went to that game
Dad was so grateful for these moments we shared
When I watch basketball now, it’s not the same
It was Dad and not the sport for which I cared
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This Poem is a Rhyme
Literal meaning of the poem
 This poem is about a girls father that dies at a
basketball game .
 The girl in the poem loses his passion for the game
after her fathers death
Metaphorical Meaning
 She cares about her dad more than basketball.
 Meaning there is more to life than just basketball
Theme
 Basketball is just a game, there is more to life
List literary devices
 Rhyme scheme- abab, cdcd, efef, ghgh
Reason I picked this poem
 I picked this poem because it is sad and about
basketball; which is my favorite sport