A Valentine's poem

Submitted by GoWings2008 on February 14th, 2022 at 3:31 PM

(Borrowed from a friend)

 

Buckeyes are red 

Michigan is Blue

They scored 27

We scored 42

 

Happy Valentine's Day and Go Blue! 

LBSS

February 14th, 2022 at 4:14 PM ^

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his maize complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal scoreline shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
    So long as eyes can catch a glimpse of heav'n,
    Mich forty-two, Ohio twenty-sev'n.

 

NeverPunt

February 14th, 2022 at 5:01 PM ^

 

Seems like it's been so long

And yet the memories go on and on

Of a defenestration so resounding

At the hands of a Hassan Haskins pounding

42-27, that was the final word

Defeating a coach who was born on third

With three and four stars who came to play

And ruined the year for one Ryan Day

Hail, Hail to the Maize and Blue

Let's do it again in 2022.

chatster

February 15th, 2022 at 7:36 AM ^

There’d been no joy in Ann Arbor
During twenty years of dread.
Waiting for that final game,
Would The Big House see more red?
Had Jim Tressel cursed the Wolverines
Or was it Urban Meyer?
Could Ryan Day continue it?
Could Harbaugh douse the fire?
Then in one, brief shining moment
For Ann Arbor’s men in blue,
Ohio State scored twenty-seven.
Michigan scored forty-two.
Though many had expected
That the ending would be cruel,
Now Michigan might once again
Be called a FOOTBALL school.

chatster

February 15th, 2022 at 3:27 PM ^

As a long-time sports fan and lover of poetry who had a brief career in sports journalism and a failed career as a songwriter, I've always liked Ernest Lawrence Thayer's "Casey at the Bat". So I'll give Thayer my inspiration for that much shorter variation on his theme and offer this reading of the poem by a famous voice among the University of Michigan 's famous alumni.