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WTC Final bowlers' ball


Have bowlers become spicier?

Hitches in batting riches

Cut sl**s shut in a rut

Pitches become dicier?


Chestnut witches strut

Gluts of stitches

And seams dreams

Humdrum Timber 

Tantrum doldrums

Back in the hut


 
What we did see at the WTC

Wood from the tree

No pretence…don’t do defence

Weary..slain in vain again


Don’t be wary..leery of 

Scary lairy leather fairies

Won’t refrain..don’t restrain

Might as well go insane

In that Baz Ball vein


Won’t sit on the fence

Face facts..cracks

No axe to the max

No one really scored


Adored stroke smorgasbord horde

Flawed fraud joke ignored

Afraid slayed blade misery

Very merry cherry glee

Ripsnorter slaughter yippee


Choker jokers..the sly Aussies..rib pokers..

Did sledge.. snide..tried to deride and get the edge


Was a helluva a ride

Will always remember the mystery

Markram and Temba’s pride..stopped the slide

Wouldn't be denied..victory and 

History finally for the Saffa side..


But most batters rumbled

Humbled as records crumbled

Even helmet on..the memory will linger

Of slip don Smith’s finger

Catches dropping short

Fumbled..fraught..bumbled

On day one and two…bowling onslaught held sway

Each day..14 wickets tumbled


So willow and leather parity

Hilarity…have to be a cruel fool to rule 

Was the best test contest of bat against ball 

Clarity of batters depravity 

Squarely at the end of their tether


Another not too clever feather

Gravity…kowtowed even without cloud

Loud proud African crowd came

Shame the Aussies can’t

Just blame the weather

For losing the game
Form: Rhyme


When Terror Reigns

Sacrifice a life for a love to rise 
out of the horror the hurt and the cries 
Attacks that take us by surprise 
will never stop those of us alive 

In the dark we shine our light 
put difference aside and unite
the love we give hasn’t a price 
the unstoppable force never dies 

Weather it be 9/11
Je suis Charlie 7/7 
those we lost up in heaven 
freedom you can never threaten 

When they say that terror reigns 
9/11 Hijacked planes 
broken hearts and all that pains 
the love we have will rise again 

Weather it be cartoon drawers 
love is found around all the corners 
the warriors besides the mourners 
up on the stage we’ll see performers 

Even if they alter minds 
they won’t alter all mankind 
rather force us all to bind 
In the love that we provide 

Every single terrorist 
facing every pair of fists 
we will fight and will persist 
freedom will always resist 

We don’t need your war torn torture 
and all its awful evil slaughter 
for our sons and for our daughters 
freedom fighters and supporters

We go on forever strong 
in the west where we belong 
remembering all those gone 
We live we love all along 

So even if historic wars 
divided those on foreign shores 
now we will divide no more 
love uniting all for sure

Love is all that we have here 
we see the hate but we don’t fear 
Even when we die we’re near 
Love is shining Love is clear

They will say we were one 
and they’ll say that we won 
by the end when all is done 
Love will be the champion
© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

We Are the Light

Be the light. We are the light.

We are the light 
By Michelle Morris
17/11/2020

In their eyes you may be incomplete 
as they seek out the shiny baubles and squeak of shallow vessels and find them not wanting, 
despite human nature being peacock taunting.

By their lips they may ululate, 
the wars and strife who souls duly break, 
but of you they may scorn 
for you break the mould by quiet storms.

In their eyes you may be incomplete 
for human beings have clay for feet;
we hurt and claw and crash and burn,
slaughter and fight against, and turn.

By their lips they may not celebrate your existence born by fate and choice;
for those who have the highest climb 
must do so alone with no solace or voice. 

We are the ones: The leaders and saviours of the undeserving masses who would not give us the light of day; but we are the Light and He sees all, and those humans remain very small in comparison to the universe's thrall - 

Our crown of thorns transmuted 
victoriously to glorious gold;
Our enemies defeated for good 
as we claim saved souls.

© Michelle Morris, 2020
Form: Rhyme

Gboko Gives Chase

In Gboko, where the dust motes dance and play,
A town, a city, a people, some would say.
What defines its spirit, a riddle, a quest,
With a gait too familiar, putting all to the test.

"Gboko!" he calls, by name, with a grin,
"Seems we're acquainted, where have you been?"
For here, familiar strangers, a curious clan,
Know each other better than any single man.

Party crashers abound, with a joyful shout,
Praise singers serenade, no shadow of doubt.
Fantastic storytelling, a vibrant, grand art,
Where habit and culture play a blurring part.

A bikeman, young, in a change-fueled fray,
Declares, "Woman dey here, food dey here, wetin I dey go find for your place?"
Such pride and contentment, a truth so stark,
In a town once welcoming, now bearing a wary mark.

In hay days of yore, a Tiv capital grand,
An industrial hub, with BCC at hand.
Ivo I msam – the tailed goat lap, a delight,
Ishu I bee nya ke tyo – fish, so perfectly white.

When women, with skill, seasoned chicken with grace,
Before the slaughter, a culinary embrace.
Families flocked in, from the hinterland's call,
For hope and new society, standing proud and tall.

Money flowed freely, like a river so wide,
Vanity and funfare, with nowhere to hide.
On paydays, men painted the whole town in red,
Trays of spiced chicken, till late, they were fed.

Imported lager flowed, in a frothy, grand spree,
And megalomaniacs, grandiloquently,
Would bluster and boast, with a haughty decree,
"Orvesen, m tse u ke kitchen ga!" – Sir, not in your kitchen, you see!

Courteous profanity, a delicate art,
Where titles and greetings played a respectable part.
Before venturing forth, with venom and ire,
To "dress down" their target, a verbal hot fire.

So Gboko gives chase, to the past and the present,
An intriguing weave, both funny and pleasant.
A place of contrasts, of laughter and grit,
Where the spirit of the people, forever is lit.
Form: Narrative

Premium Member New Order

S ucculent forests now barren, almost dying
I n the hands of thieves hungry for fortune, while
G lobal warming  crushes nature’s environ
N otwithstanding  war’s  incessant slaughter,

O ppressing a human's right to blessed life...
F ear sown on streets, power of crime --the law.

T hese are but only the pursuits of our new order, the
H unts consuming  nations, a devious act of indignity, as
E very day we hear the wails from exiled children.

T ell me, shall the next generation inherit this bondage? 
I s destruction of Mother Earth our 'noble' tribute?
M urderers  are we licensed to  plunder recklessly , an
E ntitlement quite common, snuffing  hopes of a future,
S oiled by a culture of excessive barbarism!


John Hamilton's Sign Of The Times Contest 
4/27/2018
Form: Acrostic


A Night Ride

One dark night takes me on a ride to an isolated hill where I inhale unpleasantness ..
Wide gleamy monstrous gate opens as the mighty wind blows,
creepy ferns crawl all over the floor.
Eerie garden awaits the lost lover's presence;
There stands a haunted home with a grubby porch at the entrance.
The magnanimous door welcomes me unwaveringly;
To the right there's slaughter hall polished with blood stains.
On the wall, hung portrait of a lady wearing a long red gown with a silver hat and a golden rosette stapled; 
Beside protruded, a yearning window decorated by cob webs;
To the left led staircase ,as I step on railing, it crackles like hatching eggs; Carefully I manage to reach the first floor and confronted a quiet room occupied by constant whispers & spine-chilling whimpers...I slowly move inside and envision nothing strange,but I feel something moist dripping on my cheeks from the roof above.
When I look up, the entire strong ceiling collapses,
disembodied spirit arises,floating on air,observes the decaying house from a distance.

14-7-2020

~Deepa. V~

First place in the contest:-)
Note: Decaying house Poetry Contest.
Sponsored by A Dear Heart(Constance)
© V. Deepa  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member But Never Forget

But Never Forget

Stoned out his lonely mind and drunk on booze and oblivion he headed straight 
into memorial abandon doomed and entombed smashed forgotten and lost forever

He once was Jack but his friends called him Daniel or Beam a proper lad walking
the tight rope which snapped under the influence too staggered to walk thus he
took his proud chrome machine home from his drinking hole past the cemetery

Ten drinks too many ten commandments ignored the message of grapevines which
haunt him though he still is too pickled to wake from his coffin nailed in the sand

He turns in his grave deliriously trembling from within crashed skull and bones a 
statistic foretold an accident waiting to happen grape wrath wreaths draped over the 
anger of the innocent victims of his reckless slaughter in another man’s family’s grief

Buried and berried his final resting place revolves around the plight of his victims
overgrowing vines drape the tormenting obsession with liquor not bearing up to 
the promise but a killer instead creepingly depicted through the inscription of 
'bastard’ carved in the stone hiding the shame he never absolved nor confronted

His mates do not remember him much and do not visit the funeral grounds as they
are always too drunk and only occasionally toast to how much drink he could stomach 
and after a while the rampant sleaze of uncultivated excess sprouts just as untamed
as Jack the lad and his liquefied liquidation of a moribund life lost in the undergrowth

When the dust and the seedy sediment has settled Jack’s mother still mourns what
still festers under the surface and the descendants of the hapless casualty killed in 
the process wish for the grape vines to smother to maybe forgive but never forget

Premium Member The Season of Peace

Written for Anthony Biaanco’s ‘Fifth Season’ contest
but missed the deadline. Perhaps there should be a season
in which time never runs out. ;-)
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The heart may be buoyant or leaden or light
Instinctively placid or up for the fight
The soul is the mind and can harbour intent
To spread peace and joy or with anger to vent

So whilst the heart gifts its host life with each beat
It’s souls that charge in or that beat a retreat
Thus when a black heart meets a dark hooded soul
The one net result? A belligerent whole

A dark soul will wage war in earliest spring
Or throughout a summer and not feel a thing
A murderous slaughter ensues through the fall
And even in winter might not rest at all

Should inclement climate defeat a man’s ire
Resentful - his pause in war’s rampaging fire
But just for a week or two at the year’s end
May anger abate so that peace may ascend

Whatever religion - or none - you might be
Christmas can tickle one’s humanity
Until angry souls proffer blessed release
And they briefly rest arms in the season of peace
Form: Rhyme

Retrospective

Sure, there's a place and time for everything
And if everything happens for a reason then there can't be a mistake 
And if you look behind the road of success 
You'll see a trial of failures 
And I'll keep trying to help here
Even though everything seems so helpless 
These are 4 things the Master said
"Men should Pray and ought not to lose heart"
"By your patience possess your souls"
"Don't think I came to bring peace on this earth, Nay I came to bring a sword"
"One day they will kill you and think they are doing a favor for God"
You don't hear these things at Church now ain't that kinda odd
Why stop I''ll just take you a little further
We are sheep for the slaughter 
We need the Shepard, 
He said to remember to Shepard the flock and that I would be a man of God
Does anybody know who the King of Glory is?
Please, it's suggestions I need, you can keep your comments

Premium Member P S It's Poetry Write On Write On Congrats To My Fellow Poetry Soupers Part 11

P S ITS POETRY WRITE ON  WRITE ON CONGRATS TO MY FELLOW POETRY SOUPERS PART 11

This anthology is a collection of the work of various poets from all over the world. By reading these diverse works, we hope that people will become more understanding, compassionate, and empathetic towards all people Founded in February of 2005 PoetrySoup Internet Poetry resource and community.  Encourages the writing of poetry through community involvement and support. This Free online poetry of professional and amateur poets
Of sharing your whispers from God,
 tho you didn’t know it; 
Each letters and each word;
Reads so very dear and well; Joys of your souls cheers; Covenants of choice, reading your voice; Blessing peace be still; Please keep writing your skills; 

Rhyming verses blessings of course it’s… P.S. Congrats and thank-U my fellow Soupers

•	Jerry Horton                                224
•	Jerry T Curtis                              125, 183
•	Jerry Tersoo Agee                     449
•	Jesse Rowe                                31
•	Jessica Thompson                    254
•	Jim Slaughter                             105, 23, 75
•	Joanna Chamberlain                                  306
•	Joanna Daniel                            218
•	João Camilo Campos de Oliveira Torres 419
•	John A. Long                              425
•	John Blake                                  426
•	John Early                                                     77
•	John Gondolf                              26, 34, 8
•	John P. Marmaro                        198, 283, 341
•	John R Fiordelisi                        416
•	John S. Grindle                          396
•	John Washburn                         430
•	John Watt                                    16, 43, 7
•	Jonathan Michael Bellmann    125

12/15/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020©

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