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Cricketing Poems - Poems about Cricketing

Come forth our Angel of the North Stokesy
... Come forth our Angel of the North Working class…but VIP pass…standing sentry for cricketing gentry Towering injury tarnished Talisman penury Revarnished..primacy rebooted for his mooted destiny ......

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Categories: cricketing, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Babbling Brook or Dirty Harry
... Michelin star cricketing cook…by hook or crook.. so canny..will find every nook and cranny…if you took a look at the record..score or text book ..won’t have forsook ..our dutiful..beautiful babblin......

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Categories: cricketing, sports,
Form: Free verse



Tale of Two Cities and Two Captains
...Well what the Dickens is going on? My choice as the greatest scribe and voice of our tribe Charles not himself a cricketing man but definitely a fan Twas…the tale of two skippers and two cities ......

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Categories: cricketing, sports,
Form: Prose Poetry
WTC Remember Temba
... Lovingly lauded.. they marauded.. rightly applauded Saffa gaffers did thrill Willow wielding wizards of Oz Yielding…lampooned..marooned..jaffas Festooned spill just like Seville . ......

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Categories: cricketing, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Love you Thorpey
... Nuggety nudger & nurdler Thorpey did embody Epitomise, personify Test Cricket Someone small standing tall Reliant defiant giant but Fragile and flawed Did he know he was ......

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Categories: cricketing, sports,
Form: Rhyme



Rooty eclipses Sachin's sun
... Let's toot & salute Folks our bespoke bloke Having a hoot.. Bearing fruit loot English cricketing oak  Celestial extra terrestrial Groot Can't be snooty about tutti fruity  Rooty's booty o......

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Categories: cricketing, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Champagne reign of Shane
... It’s been 3 years since the low blow of nadirs As we said hooroo to you..goodbye to our top guy Still feeling...reeling from the pain Of all the polished veneers of careers Which is th......

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Categories: cricketing, sports,
Form: Rhyme
The Fab Four is no more
... The fab four...not Scouse superstar serenaders.. Stellar constellations of cricketing fascinations... Connoisseur christened, humdinger harbingers.. Listen…whispers of willow wizardry......

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Categories: cricketing, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Cricketing Nirvanas and Nadirs
...“Heady heights..bright neon lights..giddy delights Arsonists torching the Indian empire Reputations scorching..awash with brilliant whites Gilded generation ire… spoils soiled in an oily qua......

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Categories: cricketing, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Astral Entity
...Once the dark of dilated pupils eclipsed my saffron sanguine irises, Sucking the luminescent astral soma as does a tonsil to a virus. A face of a phantom doth float in the folds of the frigid nig......

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Categories: cricketing, evil, horror, psychological, scary,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Noise
...Suddenly a peculiar audible yet indescribable cacophony plays inside my head, A thick constant racket of insectoid screams terrorizing me as I lay inside my bed. Here it is again, in its orchest......

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Categories: cricketing, anxiety, silence, sleep, sound,
Form: Couplet
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 ; tea and sympathy in a hullaballoo. The choice between Scylla and Cha......

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Categories: cricketing, games, humor, humorous, seasons,
Form: Epigram
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 short poems, proverbs, sayings or expressions faites, etc . The rest......

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Categories: cricketing, environment, fun, humor, humorous,
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 fielder. The « silly-point » is the fielding position so close to the ......

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Categories: cricketing, hilarious, humor, humorous, passion,
Form: Epigram
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 and the insane. A grenade a day keeps the refugee away. Cut your coat ......

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Categories: cricketing, games, humor, humorous, imagery,
Form: Epigram

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