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Best Wickets Poems

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The Lads
Chase the leather
Lads.  Keep the wickets
Lads. Love your mum 
Lads.  Be strong 
Lads.  Don’t cry 
Lads.  Be healthy 
Lads.

Obey your headmaster
Lads....

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Categories: wickets, childhood, death, life, mum,
Form: Free verse



Ms Dhoni
DHONI
Here is our Indian Hero,MS Dhoni,
an ideal role model to many.
Whenever Dhoni is batting at the crease,
viewers say,"Do not disturb me please"!
He regards Seven as...

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Categories: wickets, dedication, people, sports,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Ode To a Tree - Synopsis - Epic
I.

Espy, distinguish divinely made lively, lovely Trees
He or she, inhales carbon dioxide, then breathes
out for us humans, life given clean oxygen
Stout roots run deep, holding...

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Categories: wickets, adventure, beauty, earth, earth
Form: Ode
Luneta
On this landmark an image stands...
  statue of a man.
Man of honor and talent,
  admiration of any man.
Born with great love for country
Died...

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Categories: wickets, hero, memorial, memory,
Form: Idyll (Idyl)
Premium Member Am I the Assassin Or the Undertaker
Am I the Assassin 
        or the Undertaker

          ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wickets, death, grief, morning,
Form: Elegy



Premium Member Unquotable Quotes - Iii
     Unquotable quotes -  III

When in Rome, do as the Roman Nero.
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the vain...

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Categories: wickets, games, humor, humorous, imagery,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Villanelle: the Cricketers' Hakka: How's Zaat
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...

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Categories: wickets, games, judgement, passion, pride,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes - Vi
Unquotable quotes – VI

(Note : A good many of the « epigrams » in this sequence of quotes are a take off on other well-known...

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Categories: wickets, environment, fun, humor, humorous,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes With More Cricketing Jargon - Xi
Take your own sweet time, and let others keep time.
Tea for two always ends up in a hell-uv-a bellowing brew ;    
...

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Categories: wickets, games, humor, humorous, seasons,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: More Cricketing Jargon - Iv
Unquotable quotes (More Cricketing Jargon) – IV

A « wide » is a ball aimed by the bowler at some absent-  
   minded...

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Categories: wickets, hilarious, humor, humorous, passion,
Form: Epigram
The Joys of Spring

Oh do you dream of England,
when Spring is in the air?
The hum of bees on gentle breeze
is all that you will hear,
except for farmers, turning...

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Categories: wickets, seasons, spring, spring,
Form: Verse
Sachin Tendulkar - a Poetic Tribute
24 years between 22 yards,
Records being made like palace of cards,
He is one who breathes cricket,
A player,whom no opponent can hate.
He plays cricket only,thinks everyone...
But...

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Categories: wickets, age, angel, courage, dedication,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Limerick: Once a Privy Counsellor At Lord's
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 ...

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Categories: wickets, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Tribute To Sachin Tendulkar
24 years between 22 yards, 
Records being made like palace of cards, 
He is one who breathes cricket, 
A player, whom no opponent can hate.
He...

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Categories: wickets, celebrity, sports,
Form: Light Verse
Spatterdock Croquet
When Nature frees the lotus
   (This year's debut emergence)
      From their sleeping seeds,
   When they begin...

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Categories: wickets, flower, nature,
Form: I do not know?

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