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:
fielder, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Nazrul Song
...Theme:
Nazrul Song :
The eternal mid-fielder jersey, won't you have thy mercy?
The eternal mid-fielder jersey, won't you have thy mercy?
The ever-young heart, with a malleable intricate
Time t...
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Categories:
fielder, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Certitude
...If she knew your address,
Her limbs wouldn't get weary to come.
Piece by piece her heart tearing apart,
Shame and her friend guilt crushed her heart.
Daily her face is gloomy,
Inside man stood s...
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Categories:
fielder, christian,
Form: Free verse
Ball Player Looked Like Owl With a Scowl
...never desire
a reluctant umpire
fire and retire
had premonition
determined by dimension
what we must mention
fielder looked like owl
who was player on the prowl
on face had a scowl
old...
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Categories:
fielder, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Game of Cricket Is a Game of Life
...Life is not cricket: though a game of cricket reflects life
It portrays real-life conditions; from cradle to urn
Starting with toss of a coin; ends in pulling bails off
Just as cricket life is s...
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Categories:
fielder, dedication, emotions, endurance, fantasy,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Ten Shilling Note
...As a very young boy of fourteen I set out one night through the week
To meet my girlfriend from Girl Guides, the beautiful Angelique
It was a dark and windy evening and just as I put on my coat
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Categories:
fielder, age, childhood, dad, girlfriend,
Form: Rhyme
Opening Day
...Spring has sprung, the fields have turned green;
He walks to the sunshine and stands on his dream;
He grew up in fields of brown earth and sweet hay;
But the ones he loved best were the fields mad...
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Categories:
fielder, autumn, baseball, emotions, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
A Game Changer
...My Father had three daughters to his name,
Not one of us showed aptitude for sport;
The egg and spoon race was my claim to fame
And rounders’ balls were very rarely caught. *
When Father’s ...
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Categories:
fielder, football, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Carp Fishing In Michigan
...Clutching
The end of my Zebco rod and reel
As the cast of tackle is flung
Like a small knot of costume jewelry
Skimming atop the caramel-colored Grand River
Dragonfly rattling awry
The vibrat...
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Categories:
fielder, devotion, fish, fishing, friend,
Form: Free verse
Magic Seconds
...The pitcher toes the rubber, then steps off for a bit,
Wipes his brow, sets his cap, pounds the ball in his mitt
As he peers in for the sign sixty feet six inches away
Where stands the batter,...
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Categories:
fielder, baseball, magic, summer, time,
Form: Rhyme
Love Hurts
...Northside of Chi-Town is full of emotion.
In the ‘45 Series Cubs and Tigers are battling.
Sianis buys two tickets to show his devotion.
Is booted ‘cause his billy goat won’t stop bahbling.
He cur...
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Categories:
fielder, america, angst, baseball, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Don'T Stop Believing
...through the pain of torment coming your way
paying no need to ever bow the knee to pray
but is there really another way
when your knocked to the cement floor on a fours
don't stop believing
your...
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Categories:
fielder, anxiety, art, autumn, baseball,
Form: Free verse
A Little Boy's Dream of Baseball
...THE PITCHER SHAKES OFF ANOTHER SIGN.
I START TO WONDER WHATS ON HIS MIND.
WITH SWEAT RUNNING OFF MY BROW,
I NEED A HIT AND I NEED IT NOW.
BASES LOADED WE'RE DOWN BY THREE.
THE GAMES OUTCOME DEPE...
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Categories:
fielder, adventure, baseball, celebration, fantasy,
Form: Light Verse
Baseball Trash Can Cats Vs Downtown Stray
...Here we are fans this fine summer day,
to watch Trash Can Cats, versus Downtown Stray.
The field is grand in this deep wooded glen,
pitchers are warming up in the bull pen.
Pitching for the Cat...
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Categories:
fielder, baseball, fun, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
A Happy Life
...Kumbaya my Lord
my favorite prayer
when I was a boy
always eased my soul
in times of troubles
young adulthood
my love of sports
kept me going
a fan of Yaz
left fielder
of Red Sox
many ...
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Categories:
fielder, baseball, childhood,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
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