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Villanelle:Who Has It the Way He Or She Wants It

Villanelle : Who has it the way he or she wants it for Stephen Hawking, à dieu ! Who has it the way he or she wants it Unless the World's mistaken : not e'en Trump Maybe Dalai Lama's got the secret Pats Amanpour on the cheek and lumps it But Net-Any-Ahoos ride high during slump Who has it the way he or she wants it E'en Brits have hard time trying to Brexit With Putin vying with Xi to dump Trump Maybe Dalai Lama's got the secret E'en the hard-sweating man seldom makes it Try as he might someone grips on to rump Who has it the way he or she wants it ANZAC NATO and what you may call it All contrive to keep small nations in dump Maybe Dalai Lama's got the secret Out of the Black Hole alas Hawking made it Now all we've got : World according to Grump Who has it the way he or she wants it Maybe Dalai Lama's got the secret © T. Wignesan - Paris, 2018

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Silent One

Date: 3/15/2018 4:06:00 PM

Is it not called a pull shot? With reference to holi then i assume you are from Indian descent... I see you have been to a few European countries... very nice adventure..

T Wignesan
Date: 3/15/2018 11:52:00 PM

...yes, I'm Indian, and banned from those parts, have been on the RUN ever since: if you call that "adventure", then Columbus was on pleasure cruise! ...yes, too, for the "pull-shot" - you pull the ball in its own momentum and send it hurtling over fine and square leg. You need not look, just listen to the "crack" reverberating as the ball whizzes past the boundary line. Wignesan

Silent One

Date: 3/15/2018 1:40:00 PM

A few cricketers have achieved it. I am not into rugby, so no hookers there... are you Asian?

T Wignesan
Date: 3/15/2018 3:42:00 PM

Yes, I'm all shot-through South & Southeast Asian, though my adult life is European-based: England, West Germany, Spain and France. By "hooking" the ball in cricket, I mean "swiping/sweeping" the ball over the leg-field; that is, by pulling at it in an outright swing. No reference to the rugby "hooker" of course. Yes, I've heard of 36-run overs, but never witnessed it, myself. Wignesan

Silent One

Date: 3/15/2018 10:36:00 AM

I would probably hit your for six sixes in an over my friend lol...

T Wignesan
Date: 3/15/2018 12:15:00 PM

That would be a real "holi-Day" for the fielders and the wicket-keeper! 36 runs in an over! Never saw that done, excepting with tennis balls in a backyard field. But I don't doubt you: still waters run... I knew you were a hooker over the leg field! Every good wish. Wignesan

Silent One

Date: 3/15/2018 7:25:00 AM

You do this form so well..

T Wignesan
Date: 3/15/2018 9:54:00 AM

...but my "leg-breaks", I like to think, are even better! Your nom de plume, if at all, is a misnomer: you're anything but the Silent One. I'm just pulling your leg while I'm tossing a well grounded leg-spin. Hope you wouldn't mind having your off-stump toppled-over, uprooted! Thanks a lot for the kudos. Every good wish. Wignesan

Arthur Vaso

Date: 3/15/2018 4:00:00 AM

He is publishing his secrets in 4 volumes, great poem!

T Wignesan
Date: 3/15/2018 9:47:00 AM

Bonjour, King Arthur! Your comment makes it extremely difficult for me to respond. Yes, four vols. and more (4 novels, 2 memoirs, 1 sh-st.col., several articles, etc.,) and I'm not finished, for the ENEMY is implacable, INTOUCHABLE, non-destructible: it changes hands every elections. "Great"? by no means, Sir, but THANKS all the same. Wignesan