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Famous Cricketer Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Cricketer poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous cricketer poems. These examples illustrate what a famous cricketer poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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...ho don’t get up to
the wildest things to leaven our own dull lives

i have a soft spot for penelope though
a bit like a cricketer deserted by her 
own side having to play against eleven 
thugs from the next village - so adept 
with fingers and feet she could put herself 
about as the whole team - her skills 
at batting bowling fielding keeping score
prodigious in the eyes of bemused suitors
she’s the innermost feminine dream
thread of life weaver of stories – the duck
machism...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg



...Mid-9th century

Good-looking young man
in your Crimean shirt
with your willow shield
up, as if to face spears,

you're inside their men's Law,
one church they do obey;
they'll remember you were here.
Keep fending off their casts.

Don't come out of character.
Like you they suspect
idiosyncrasy of witchcraft.
Above all, don't get out

too easily, and have ...Read more of this...
by Murray, Les

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