The Fans view Bless you Jaddu
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In Test cricket…we talk quite a bit about the assumption to be a hit…need gumption and grit…another platitude about the right attitude at any latitude…selectors gratitude for vigour..rigour..fortit...
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Categories:
bounder, sports,
Form: Rhyme
In My Deepest Fantasies
...Sunday cockcrow nascent promulgate aural essays reveal,
laissez-faire luscious lustrous buoyant raptures,
radio behemoth prompt to that untamed erudite fantasist,
me the one possessing rippled ra...
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Categories:
bounder, celebration, character, confidence, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Sunday Morning Programme
...Sunday cockcrow nascent
aural essays reveal
laissez-faire raptures.
Enigmatic silken piece compost ushered in by
trenchant trademark tremulous signature.
Doe-eyed instrumentalist’s strident bras...
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Categories:
bounder, august, birth, celebration, character,
Form: Imagism
Sacred Falling Stars
...Once upon a time a gymnast teacher told a girl,
and all her classmates,
to gather round
to spot the student currently bouncing
on the trampoline.
They circled
to volunteer a ring of imp...
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Categories:
bounder, allegory, analogy, caregiving, health,
Form: Political Verse
The Bounder
...The Bounder be now in his reign
Tho' he be of feather'd brain
Half the people sing his praise
The other half - his hide doth flay...
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Categories:
bounder, funny, political,
Form: Verse
Henry He Ain'T
...There once was a blind British bloke
Whose nose-in-the-air was a joke
He set out to plunder
But found that Down Under
A bounder most likely will croak...
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Categories:
bounder, england,
Form: Limerick
Bad Poem
...One day I delivered a poem
one that seemed to be premature
so I swaddled her up
and set her aside
to grow 'til I felt reassured
How she yowled and howled for attention...
how she cried so pit...
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Categories:
bounder, humor, humorous, silly, word
Form: Rhyme
The Cloud That Never Cleared
...#The Cloud That Never Cleared
Once beautiful hues of Blue fell through, never to be renewed.
Replaced with Charcoal Mist Gray...
No Transparency, No Glimpse of Breakthrough,
Just a Permanent S...
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Categories:
bounder, appreciation, deep, fate, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Cousin Freddie
...Ere Cousin Freddie departed this Earth
The guys placed bets on what his chances were worth:
The odds that his soul
Could avoid what’s below;
(Of all of his kin, he’d then be the first!)
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Categories:
bounder, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Our Hero
...A little piece I wrote for Flips Funeral
There is an interlude to the beginning
But the present has now passed
As I record this passage
Of a hero to the last
So I beat a hasty path
On my ...
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Categories:
bounder, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Ghazal
A Journey Through Time Final Part Revised
...Now as the years passed by everyone became so tired
the heaps of things scattered around became too much to bear
some benevolence was certainly grand but this was too much
the two felt unable to unde...
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Categories:
bounder, journey, symbolism, visionary,
Form: Epic
The Will To Want
...© Ben Burton Feb 5, 2014
I view beauty with desire
But am seen through abstract eyes
Which begats a mystery
For I don't try to be that kind
The shattered pieces in my wake
As tea leaves wither in t...
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Categories:
bounder, evil, farewell, metaphor, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Upon Slippered Feet
..."come fluttering words, come drifting words to me...."
A Rambling Poet
Upon slippered feet she gently walks,
through laurel maze and courtyard lawns.
T...
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Categories:
bounder, fantasy
Form: Rhyme
Hunted In 1880
...Hunted
by Don Johnson
Brisbane-Australia
On a bitter cold and moonless night,
there came a gentle knock at the door.
Only half heard Joe did stir from sleep, alight,
to meet a stra...
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Categories:
bounder, angstlight, light, men,
Form: Rhyme
Love Eternal
...Daylight draws to a close
as puple shadows dance along mountain tops.
Arms intertwined, we walk the dark path home,
y...
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Categories:
bounder, devotion, family, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
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