Dunk


My next quadrille:

The sound of basketball
Crashing into the hoop,
When dunked with ferocity
Is like no other…

To celebrate, or not
Is secondary. To hear
That thunderous crash
Is every basketballer’s dream.

The sound of ball barging
Through hoop, is music
I’d hearken all day.

-The Forgers of Fantasy

This has been penned for the DVerse quadrille prompt hosted by Merril D Smith, in which poets were asked to pen quadrilles including some form of the word “celebrate”. You can access the prompt at https://dversepoets.com/2022/07/11/quadrille-155-lets-celebrate/

For more such poems,refer The Forgers of Fantasy

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