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Cricketing Poems - Poems about Cricketing

Was it all just a dream

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Wakey wakey pinch me shake me don’t forsake me..was it just a trip..a mistake a half baked fake dream during a kip or after 46 days booked can’t be overlooked everyone letting rip..totally cooked...
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Categories: cricketing, sports,
Form: I do not know?

World's number one and two in batting's Who's Who

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Yorkshire’s blessed treasure chest best take their Test berth as they surf the crest out on the hallowed turf

The self anointed..God’s own country..didn’t rest..hasn’t disappointed..simple ploy
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Categories: cricketing, sports,
Form: Rhyme



Only fair it ended all square

...Even sagacious tribes of loquacious scribes fail to describe the goodness gracious..bodacious..outrageous..tenacious..courageous vibes from both sides
Flush with the lush lexicon repository in the p...
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Categories: cricketing, sports,
Form: Free verse

Come forth our Angel of the North Stokesy

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 MemberThe 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 MemberThe 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 MemberUnquotable Quotes With More Cricketing Jargon - Xi

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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 Cha...
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Categories: cricketing, games, humor, humorous, seasons,
Form: Epigram

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