Long Medalist Poems

There is a large cattle property in the Northern Territory of Australia
   where the bores are named after Famous cricketers and that prompted 
    this piece.

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Lost souls deepen black holes…
Broken cries…muted forever lies back and forth on ya mind…
Tears of peroxide burns your polluted dilated eyes…
True hermit of life…no one by ya side…your alone and ya mind is gone…
Only thing...

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A dream for many a watch for some  
The Olympic journey, Here it comes!!  
It was in Paris, few days ago  
It rushed a shiver from the head to the toe. ...

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luckily for our ambiguous plot structure
and the stern requirements of partisan doggerel
the ringing coin toss bounced then came up tails
and fortune directed that the box be opened
gingerly gripped in two slender shaking hands
by Pepper d'Angelo...

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Merit was always the gold medalist
Then came the shrewd unconcerned capitalist
Who endeared and sold to many the cheap thrill
At jaw-dropping prices reserved only for mastery and skill
And I agree with Solomon that princes could walk...

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David can often be seen hot on the trail, 
Of Richard Whitehead, sprinter, runner, 
And was reported in Rio de Janero’s mail, 
As the 200m bronze medalist, stunner.

He went to St George Catholic College, 
Located...

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Wind of wind haste among the sky pen point the sculpture now close one eyes

A build a house among the sea sit among captivate like bronze to a medalist

To smile a pond a river and...

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Harriet has Beckwith-wiedemann syndrome, 
Something which shortened her right side, 
And she also his difficulty with blood sugar, 
But she’s a dog lover of Baya Bear and Bow. 

Born in Huntington which is a market...

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Jodie is a law student born in Telford, 
Living in Tilford, so she happily attends,
Lillishall Nat. Sports & Conference Centre, 
And was born on the 26th July in 1993.

When her dad became ill, needed lifted,...

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Paul played table tennis as part of his rehab, 
So accepted an invitation to ‘Come and Try’, 
Which saw him selected for a German contest, 
To represent Wales ‘cos he’s from Cardiff fab.  

That...

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Claire was born disabled, no left forearm, 
And at school hid it well under her jumpers,
But swimming let her accept, love her body, 
Such that today she’s a swimming medalist. 

Born in Redditch in Worcestershire...

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This man loves Newcastle United football club, 
And has overcome Graves’ disease thyroidal, 
By having an op to remove that deathly snub, 
Of his prowess in the swimming pool brutal. 

He won a bronze in...

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Like a restless dog haunted by a place
where it vaguely recalls having buried
        long ago something personally precious,
        he keeps coming...

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It might be a T-Rex dinosaur
to scare off big bullies with a roar
or Archimedes to help with math;
while I linger, ponder, in the bath.
A space astronaut would be quite swell
to give me some super tales...

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He smilingly, smugly says to himself:

     "Ah, if only these kids knew

        I was best debater here,

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A tribute to Sri Lanka Gold medalist  Susanthika 
 

A  Lotus bud was hidden in the mud of a jungle stream 

Dark skin, curly hair
Black mare runs
Against the wind
Across the fields
On the rocks
In...

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Lee Pearson is a para-equestrian athlete, 
Because in horse jumping he does compete, 
And has arlthrogryposis multiplex congenita,
Which he was born with in 1974, not bitter.

He’s a ten-times paralympic gold medalist,
‘Cos since Sydney 2000 he’s...

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