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:
cynics, sports,
Form: Prose Poetry
Saffa Jaffas spill like Seville
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If you don’t play the big three
There’s no way
You should be seen
In the final of the WTC
That’s what’s been heard
Mean baggie greens
Have a word
Indians chagrin din
Sim...
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Categories:
cynics, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Armourless Hearts
...Verse 1- Lets take the hearts from our armor and lift off the chains, well dance with the relics and drink cheap champagne, let the arrows speak justice, will play Tim and Jane, with nothing to lose ...
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Categories:
cynics, adventure,
Form: Free verse
CASEY’S SECOND CHANCE!
...The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day;
The score stood four to two, with but an inning left to play.
And when Cooney fell at first, and Barrows met the same,
A hush of sorrow...
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Categories:
cynics, baseball, destiny, inspirational,
Form: Lyric
Survival Tips for Recovering Cynics
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One:
Wake up slowly.
Admit it was never that deep.
Let your first word be hmmm.
Let your second be whatever.
Two:
Stretch, but not like you mean it.
Pop one joint, then s...
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Categories:
cynics, moving on, word play,
Form: Free verse
An Eternal Optimist
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The world needs a little
Good news everyday
Just look on the bright side
It's better that way
Kick up your heels
Say howdy my friends
Just smile at a stranger
Your woes you'll tr...
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Categories:
cynics, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Crippled
...As a mother, Christ gave heed to the woman's plea.
For him, days of work or Sabbath days did not count.
From their selves, he observed, the human creatures flee
For eighteen years, the Book says, ...
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Categories:
cynics, jesus,
Form: Sonnet
Internet Poetry
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We all do try and write for a reason
and each have different things to say
at some particular time or season
we've got to express our thoughts that way.
It doesn't really matter who y...
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Categories:
cynics, community, inspiration, internet, literature,
Form: Rhyme
Bolton's Talented Guy
...Guy starred at the Octagon,
when he was just a lad,
and all the reviews.
in the Bolton News,
said that he wasn’t too bad.
His mum said it was destiny,
his dad said it was karma,
when Guy go...
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Categories:
cynics, funny,
Form: Rhyme
The Farce Of Law
...Posters painted
By law tainted
Rosaries rattling
Prayers prattling
Police swoop
Spirits droop
Whisked away
Because they pray
For children unborn
Innocent lives shorn
In abortion clinics
Co...
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Categories:
cynics, children, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Best De Tour De Force
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Poetry unlike the rest
Poetry I like best
Best as non-fiction
Best as one’s conviction
Conviction of the heart
Conviction comes apart
Apart from others views
Apart from your issues
Issues w...
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Categories:
cynics, poetry,
Form: Blitz
Yuletide pageant merry go round
...Yuletide pageant merry go round
Panoply of mystical elements of holly day style
breathe prez sense frostily exhaled aired
per millennia athwart
(this terrestrial spaceship planet Earth)
two ...
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Categories:
cynics, angel, appreciation, birth, celebration,
Form: Free verse
The Finis Sing Touches Touche
...The finis sing touches touché
Knead dull brows knitted;
belief system I cogitate
gearing thee ordinary bipedal hominid
acquiesces to deck the halls
of the mountain (dew) king with boughs
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Categories:
cynics, 12th grade, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Believers and Skeptics
... believers
devout, fervent
accepting, aiming, progressing
worshippers, devotees, persistent, cynics
disbelieving, beari...
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Categories:
cynics, creation, poetry, words,
Form: Diamante
Anagha, Depiction of Woman Around
...Anagha, the faultless,
or a name that rings with perfection's grace,
The name that also embodies Shiva,
Born from a womb that radiates with magnitude
A beacon of light, a symbol of peace,
Anagha...
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Categories:
cynics, anger, angst, courage, moving
Form: Free verse
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