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:
fielders, sports,
Form: Free verse
KL Cool Cat Rahul and Panto Pant
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Rat a tat tat..from the off…doff my hat to that.. rare..great hair and flair pair…the cool cat and crazy cat..
Teasing twang…of the Pant and anti Pant thang..the genesis of a genius nemesis it b...
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Categories:
fielders, sports,
Form: Prose Poetry
Rundown
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“In a rundown, the runner is in a pickle that could become a rhubarb.” ~ by poet
Rundown.
He's trapped between
bases being pursued
by the fielders who glibly smile
because they know ...
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Categories:
fielders, baseball, games,
Form: Rictameter
Combat Cricket
...A game played by gents they say
But at over ninety miles an hour
A fast bowled cricket ball
Really has some striking power.
A longed for confrontation between
A superb bowler and a class batter....
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Categories:
fielders, humor,
Form: Rhyme
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:
fielders, dedication, emotions, endurance, fantasy,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Bug Bites Again
...THE BUG BITES –AGAIN!
We begin to get restless,
And know that feeling
The one when our heads
Start reeling!
It’s time to visit the Kruger Park,
Although sparse rain, and
The bush will be sta...
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Categories:
fielders, africa, animal,
Form: Rhyme
The Homemaker
...She works around the clock it seems
Washing clothes and cleaning things.
At times content, at times despairing,
But always there and always caring.
Taking on the daily tasks,
Responding to ...
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Categories:
fielders, blessing, dedication, family, home,
Form: Couplet
Plenty of Room In Le Fut For Soccer
...Plenty of room in « Le Foot »* for Soccer
For Doug Vinson at PoetrySoup.com
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Not long ago King Pelé
Set “le foot” in America
Today his peoples’ muted “Olé”!...
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Categories:
fielders, addiction, america, baseball, basketball,
Form: Quatrain
Megan's Hit
...MEGAN'S HIT
There on the deck, I took a practice swing
tormented in the possiblity--
then hope was dashed--I found no hope to bring
up to the plate, when Ump cried out, "Strike 3!"
I was the l...
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Categories:
fielders, baseball, child, children, girl,
Form: Sonnet
Beauty and Diviersity
...A baseball game is fun to watch and cheer
For nine innings are spectators all geared
Pitchers and batters, runners and fielders
Excitement uncontained as umpires yell there
Batter up is the sound...
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Categories:
fielders, metaphor,
Form: Verse
Institutionalization of a Buttered Toast
...Ten moody irate serpents and twenty-five screaming eels could never climb into an eighteenth century bath. It is quite ornately decorated and taps can be eroded. So store parcels in ceiling beams the...
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Categories:
fielders, art,
Form: I do not know?
Megan's Hit
...MEGANS HIT
There on the deck, I took a practice swing
tormented in the possiblity--
then hope was dashed--I found no hope to bring
up to the plate, when Ump cried out, "Strike 3!"
I was the la...
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Categories:
fielders, baseball, girl, sports,
Form: Sonnet
Champing At the Bit
...Today's Date July 24. 2015
Contest Entry---First written Spring 2015
game bullying, hero, silly, sports, strength, word play,,
Champing At the Bit! ©
I hear the roars in the almighty arena
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Categories:
fielders, bullying, hero, silly, sports,
Form: Verse
Baseball Game
...Swing of the bat, contests
Fielders’ gloves, ball in motion,
Run, slide, throw - called safe!
Innings are by turns,
Dramatic or biding, boxscores
Revealing who’s up.
Catching foul ball st...
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Categories:
fielders, baseball, tribute,
Form: Haiku
Megan's Hit - the Baseball Sonnet
...MEGANS HIT - the Baseball Sonnet
There on the deck, I took a practice swing
tormented in the possiblity--
then hope was dashed--I found no hope to bring
up to the plate, when Ump cried out, "Stri...
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Categories:
fielders, baseball, childhood, children, family,
Form: Sonnet
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