ConKrete Dreams: Poem
ConKrete Dreams is a raw, poetic homage to the streetball culture born on cracked blacktops in the heart of the hood. Written in the gritty, soulful tone of ConKrete Playground, it captures the essence of a generation that turned alleyways into arenas and struggle into art. With no referees, no fancy gyms, and no camera crews, this poem speaks for those who balled for the love, the pride, and the legacy. It’s a lyrical time capsule of makeshift courts, chain nets, and milk crate hoops—where imagination met ambition and culture was created from the ground up. It ends with a rallying cry: "Begin Again"—an invitation to revive that spirit and reawaken the movement.
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Prime
5/14/20251 min read
Where the concrete kissed our kicks, that’s where it sparked, right there in the heart of the jungle, no soft landings, just scars in the parks.
No polished wood, just cracked blacktop, with leatherless, balls and runs didn't stop. This was the hood—our hardwood.
Monkey bars were baskets, bike rims our goals, milk crates nailed up with hope, crooked but still held soul.
Sirens sang lullabies, chain nets spit truth. We ain’t need no scoreboard, the streets kept proof.
Ones and two's and who got next, threes, and fives, take your bets. Horse, "I'm Magic, you Bird", now, our minds started taking a turn. Thirty-three, twenty-one, game point on the line, every shot was legacy, every, move was defined.
No refs blowin' whistles, no cams for the 'Gram, just sweat, trash talk, and love for the game.
Imagination built arenas in alleyways, intense games, we ain’t play for likes, we played to make our names.
Culture born from concrete, laced tight in every start, the grind, the grit, the purest form of the art.
An open canvas to paint, create anything you want, that's how our games developed, we didn't know that was the start.
As the canvas begin to fill, our games were full of color, now the game is dull, it needs help to recover.
Now the call's been made, feel it deep in the skin: same streets, same beat— it's time to Begin Again.
You want next? Then go get it in.
