Best Batsman Poems

I remember, I remember my garden of joy,                                     ...

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I like Muslims,
Particularly Yemenis
And Pakistanis (in Yemen)—
With whom, as a university don,
I happened to live for six years. 

Arabic vowels render 
A Yemeni voice gruff.
So even a greeting would   probably
Sound rude to you.

The people are all, like the cat, 
Naturally suspicious, cautious, 
Until...

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Villanelle : The Cricketer’s Hakka : « How’s Zaat ! »

Balls thud into pads bats gloves or whisk past batsmen
At bowler’s end or square leg umpires stare stand
« How’s Zaat ! » yell players game’s holy silence broken

Two umpires two batsmen players eleven
All rivet eyes...

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     Unquotable quotes -  III

When in Rome, do as the Roman Nero.
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the vain and the 
         insane.
A grenade a day keeps the refugee away.
Cut your...

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Take your own sweet time, and let others keep time.
Tea for two always ends up in a hell-uv-a bellowing brew ;    
        tea and sympathy in a hullaballoo.
The choice between Scylla and Charybdis is like...

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Unquotable quotes (More Cricketing Jargon) – IV

A « wide » is a ball aimed by the bowler at some absent-  
   minded fielder.
The « silly-point » is the fielding position so close to the 
   batsman that the captain forces...

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   Unquotable quotes – II

Spare the rod and knife the wife.
Empty drums make the most deaf wise.
Penny wise Pound English.
The Polyester Stomper heals the vain woman’s heel.  
Eat what you can but can what doctors ban.
Let the water tap run but drain...

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Unquotable quotes: Leftists – XVIII

(Note: What goes for the Left can go for the Right, too. All you need to do is to interpose the words wherever possible. Don’t read ideological warfare where there is none intended.)

If the Left is right, the Right cannot be...

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Limerick : Once a Privy Counsellor at Lord’s

Once a Privy Counsellor at Lord’s*
Watched a bowler* throw balls like gourds
Convened judicial com.*
Summoned bowler to come  
And sentenced him to eat bitter gourds.

Lord’s : The Mecca of cricket grounds in London
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"Wise Monkey"



I am tired
I am so so tired
Just sit for a while

See no evil
Hear no evil
Speak no evil

Shut my eyes
Listen to emptiness
Don't speak

Shhhhhhhhhhh

I am tired
I am so so tired
Just sit for a while

Watch my world
go bye

(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)





"Stone in Focus" / Aphex Twin
https://youtu.be/q86g1aop6a8


"Just Fall Asleep"...

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I remember, I remember my garden of joy,
It gave me great happiness when I was a boy
At the bottom of the garden was a delightful stream,
When alone, I would sit beside it, meditate and dream.
In the garden stood an ancient apple tree,
In the spring time...

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Life is not cricket: though a game of cricket reflects life 
It portrays real-life conditions; from cradle to urn 
Starting with toss of a coin; ends in pulling bails off
Just as cricket life is simply a game of twists and turns 
Cricket depicts aptitudes, attitudes...

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Out of a neon jungle the big cats prowl
  the wind in the willows unrecovered,
for when the cats and wind begin to howl
  I am stoned and the boys truly mothered!
So I rip in and bowl an inswinger 
  and rap ‘em...

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I have no doubt that 
 soon it will be summer.
The daffodils have taken flight,
 fire no more warms the night.
The rain has gone,
 no need to run for cover.

Not long now ‘til summer,
 blossoms on apple trees,
monarch butterflies and bumble bees,
 garden buds a...

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 Friends, Romans, Countrymen, gathered in awe
   to watch The Master and his name exhort,
 and at the crease blazoned a century score
   by the Lion slayer in fierce onslaught.
 Cut, hook, pull, and drive - each ball thunderstruck
  ...

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