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:
kiwis, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Upsets and Underdogs
...Kiwi Cricket's Shangri La...
"Can still hear the deafening din of the Indian crowd chagrin.
Stunned shell shocked silence at mandarins' sins.
Yet somehow still so loud
Like thunder down...
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Categories:
kiwis, sports,
Form: Rhyme
I Really Just Don't Care
...Sun shining over the ghastly life-filled lands
Burning brightly upon the crimson sand
Trunk and Trees here and there
Falling upon the Aussie’s flair
From a place filled with hills to mountains,...
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Categories:
kiwis, 9th grade, adventure, community,
Form: Free verse
For the Sake of the Children
...We took up the challenge,
When the bar was set high,
To show the rest of the world,
That Kiwis can fly higher,
In a world at an all time low
As Omicron hits new heights.
While others could n...
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Categories:
kiwis, baptism, bible, character, cheer
Form: Didactic
Sound Prints
...It’s a cold and damp, early-winter night in New Zealand. People are crouching in the dark throughout the forests and farmlands of Northland, They are here this night to coincide with the waning moon...
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Categories:
kiwis, bird,
Form: Haibun
Kiwis Not Tired
...Kiwis aren’t tired of flying
Country to country like Gooses
Kiwis are carried to Country to Country
Boots and shoes...
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Categories:
kiwis, bird,
Form: Free verse
My Name Is Jacinda Ardern
...New Zealand all over Sea and land,NEWS
On blood bath of Kiwi ever since her birth,1856
On killing 50 lives settled to fight their bellies battle
“Land of long white cloud” mean New Zealand
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Categories:
kiwis, blessing, character, creation, emotions,
Form: Blank verse
Kiwi Fruit
...Named after NZ's native bird,
there's an awesome fruit, it's concurred.
Sold with a spoon, never stirred
adored in salad, so I've heard,
it sounds absurd, it sounds absurd.
Fuzzy outside, bril...
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Categories:
kiwis, food, fruit, green, health,
Form: Verse
Fill Up That Plate
...chili, pasta, steak,
fresh fruit salad, lemon cake,
gravy, gumbo, roast,
bacon, jelly, melba toast,
spicy pizza, stews,
juicy kiwis, taffy chews,
shish kabob, rolls, greens,
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Categories:
kiwis, food,
Form: Rhyme
Lowering of the Bar
...Once there was a land where stanadrds were high and milk and honey flowed,
As freely, and as efficiently as if they were water.
Every year the locals took stock of how much they had improved on the...
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Categories:
kiwis, bereavement, betrayal, blue, celebration,
Form: Narrative
Mac User Or Pc
...9/8/16
Are you a Mac user or PC?
Do you prefer Justin's or Reese's?
A few times, I saw the movie "E.T."
And I once slept in a teepee
Shouldn't be sleazy
Or greedy
Got to get after ...
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Categories:
kiwis, poetry, rap, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Tenants To Animal Landlords
...A nation with the southernmost capital in the globe
whose identity has constantly been bullied
by the global acknowledgement of a larger one.
A place where economic empowerment comes throu...
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Categories:
kiwis, animal, community, earth, nature,
Form: Ode
Mystery In Black and White
... amphibrachic verse
It looks like a kiwi
No, kiwis are fuzzy.
Then maybe a lemon?
or lime? I'm obsessed.
Am I getting closer?
Misshapened? an orange?
A colorless photo,
confusing ...
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Categories:
kiwis, color, image, missing,
Form: Verse
Scabs
...Scabs in Australian history
The Labor Party came from the early Shearers strike, 1900s,
where Unions fought for and got fair wages for the workers.
Later in the 1950s the Shearers had ...
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Categories:
kiwis, adventure,
Form: Ballade
Kiwi Napham
...KIWI NAPHAM
THE KIWI FARMER GAGGED A BIT ,
THE METHANE SHOWER IGNITED IT,
THE CIGGY BUTT IT FLASHED FOR SURE,
ENGULFING HIM IN A TINY ROAR,
HOLY SUFFERING KIWI TWIT!
NAPHAM METH...
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Categories:
kiwis, adventure,
Form: Ballad
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