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:
japes, sports,
Form: Rhyme
So sorry to see you go Mo
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So sorry to see you go Mo
Tally ho & bravo but must let you know
Not being weird...you had a bigger beard
Face more hirsute to boot than even WG Grace.
Gleaming beaming grin..strea...
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Categories:
japes, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Snippets of Spring vol 3
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Meandering meadows broken by a tossing garbling brook…strewn..rocks hewn embossing...marbling and moss flossing
Awoken whispers spoken..cantankerous coughing eddy wheezes..then a curmudgeonly ic...
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Categories:
japes, nature, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Majesty of Spring’s Tapestry
...Meandering meadows broken by a tossing garbling brook…boulders embossing...marbling and moss flossing
Awoken whispers spoken..cantankerous coughing eddy wheezes..then a curmudgeonly icy mirror hus...
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Categories:
japes, nature, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Ebony Mountains
...Far hidden betwixt and aloft mountains further than light, so sleep the dwellers of the eternal night.
Moving silently, soft and quietly,
Moving with fright,
Carrying only our sweat and skin, ma...
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Categories:
japes, angst, dark, death, environment,
Form: Narrative
Uprooted
...Unlike the Famous Five,
with capers, japes and adventures,
boats and well stocked picnics, we lived
a back street life. With a sock and masking tape ball
and mucky fat sarnies.
The Family Allowa...
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Categories:
japes, childhood, family, growing up,
Form: Prose Poetry
Categories:
japes, addiction, fun,
Form: Diamante
Bitfrost of a Broken Bottle
...Caught in the facets of a broken bottle
sunlight splinters dangle from its edge
holding fast its beauty
jagged japes of jabbing jades
bitfrost of a broken bottle...
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Categories:
japes, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Contrast
...In slumbering slope they lay,
their gaiety snores in rhythmic peaks of cadences,
The lily livered japes
Kings from central castings,
Heroes of one hour,
jostling for President with mere word...
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Categories:
japes, africa, character, courage, freedom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
An Excercise In Alliteration
...The garrulous, Greek grape gatherers,
Joined joyously with jocund japes,
The olive pickers and Ostrich plucker’s,
Celebrating the seasons success in song.
The querulous quiver of musical quaver...
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Categories:
japes, allusion, humorous,
Form: Alliteration
Ride On Your Wheels
...Let me ride on your wheels
Let me wear your cool shades
Let's drive out of this town
Like we're out of this cage
As fast as the wind blowing
Wish that it's never-ending
We could go back to sa...
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Categories:
japes, friend,
Form: Narrative
A Teacher's Poem
...You are all cool kids in your youngest ever age,
You make each other day like you’re out of your cage.
When I talk, you always listen.
My pretty good lessons are enjoyably missing.
Y...
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Categories:
japes, my children, teacher,
Form: Narrative
A Letter To My Friend - I
...To my dearest dear…
We met a long time back
The day do you remember?
That was the day when I met you first time
Together we cracked japes and together we smiled
Since then you gave my life a son...
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Categories:
japes, art, dedication, friendship, love,
Form: Classicism
The Narrow Squeak Show Chapter 4
...Now, I have been thinking
I have had a few scrapes..........
Ticked a few chaps off
Ships sinking
Harmless japes!
Am I getting soft?
The pirate chaps were great!
Landed me ashore,
w...
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Categories:
japes, funny, me,
Form: Ballad
And You Will Know Me By the Trail of Dead
...And you will know me by the trail of dead,
the whistle of wind in cutthroat pipes,
the jolly japes and spring heeled capers
in the sepia pulp of the Sunday papers
and in all the Jack Tar bilge in...
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Categories:
japes, allegory, death, history, people,
Form: Verse
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