Long Wickets Poems
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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 simply...
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Categories:
wickets, dedication, emotions, endurance, fantasy, games, image, inspiration,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Ode To a Tree - Synopsis - Epic
I.
Espy, distinguish divinely made lively, lovely Trees
Unisex Trees, inhales carbon dioxide, then breathes
out for us humans, life given clean oxygen
Stout roots run deep, holding God's earth
Also, with you we were taught our first lesson
II.
Animals take...
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Categories:
wickets, adventure, beauty, earth, earth day, introspection, nature,
Form:
Ode
Unquotable Quotes With More Cricketing Jargon - Xi
Take your own sweet time, and let others keep time.
Tea for two always ends up in a hell-uv-a bellowing brew ;
tea and sympathy...
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Categories:
wickets, games, humor, humorous, seasons, time, word play,
Form:
Epigram
Am I the Assassin Or the Undertaker
Am I the Assassin
or the Undertaker
For Palani...
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Categories:
wickets, death, grief, morning,
Form:
Elegy
Of course Fairy Tales can come true Daws
Have I done something wrong..8 long years..regretted being forsaken not feted..more pong than gong it appears
Charismatic Selectors mistaken..phlegmatic..enigmatic or erratic
Dramatic not pragmatic nor didactic tactic
Despite the fans throng that he does belong
After an en song...
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Categories:
wickets, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Villanelle: the Cricketers' Hakka: How's Zaat
Villanelle : The Cricketer’s Hakka : « How’s Zaat ! »
Balls thud into pads bats gloves or whisk past batsmen
At bowler’s end or square leg umpires stare stand
« How’s Zaat ! » yell players game’s...
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Categories:
wickets, games, judgement, passion, pride, psychological, sports,
Form:
Villanelle
Siraj in charge of the new Raj
Dash of panache …blade cascades on the lash..rocking …fans cavalcade flocking to be clocking some shocking..peacocking....with a hefty splash of flash fancy dan elan
No mocking.. knocking or blocking my pick as the talisman taking charge,...
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Categories:
wickets, sports,
Form:
Free verse
Is Ashwin the Indian Don of Spin
Where do you begin with Ravichandran Ashwin...intellectual impresario
Red ball romeo... conceptual maestro..the Kingpin of spin..leather lothario
Perpetual taunting...teasing..bubbling cerebral cauldron formenting..haunting
Troubling.. flaunting...tormenting..vaunting..fermenting..pleasing
Luminosity...but another one of the band of badger brothers
Reeks of unique chic tweak at its...
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Categories:
wickets, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Unquotable Quotes - Iii
Unquotable quotes - III
When in Rome, do as the Roman Nero.
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the vain and the
...
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Categories:
wickets, games, humor, humorous, imagery, psychological, word play,
Form:
Epigram
Tribute To Sachin Tendulkar
24 years between 22 yards,
Records being made like palace of cards,
He is one who breathes cricket,
A player, whom no opponent can hate.
He plays cricket only, thinks everyone...
But playing with nos. Is his...
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Categories:
wickets, celebrity, sports,
Form:
Light Verse
Unquotable Quotes: More Cricketing Jargon - Iv
Unquotable quotes (More Cricketing Jargon) – IV
A « wide » is a ball aimed by the bowler at some absent-
minded fielder.
The « silly-point » is the fielding position so close...
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Categories:
wickets, hilarious, humor, humorous, passion, sports, word play,
Form:
Epigram
Sachin Tendulkar - a Poetic Tribute
24 years between 22 yards,
Records being made like palace of cards,
He is one who breathes cricket,
A player,whom no opponent can hate.
He plays cricket only,thinks everyone...
But playing with nos. Is his real fun..
His achievements are his...
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Categories:
wickets, age, angel, courage, dedication, stars,
Form:
Ode
Unquotable Quotes - Vi
Unquotable quotes – VI
(Note : A good many of the « epigrams » in this sequence of quotes are a take off on other well-known short poems, proverbs, sayings or expressions faites, etc . The...
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Categories:
wickets, environment, fun, humor, humorous, religion, word play,
Form:
Epigram
KG the OG WTC
Not just WTC..
KG has to be..the OG
Saffa Jaffa gaffer….sole goal
Batters harries
Carries..never parries
Weight and expectation
Fate & soul
Of a whole nation
South African speedster larder
Is choc a block
Marco..new narco tyro
Already a believer
The length & strength...
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Categories:
wickets, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
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...
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Categories:
wickets, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
A Reprise of Summer
Green fields of grass and black boys in white
Sir Lancelot and round table and frolic sights
The children of slaves so bedecked as knights
Spectators shadeless sizzling in fusion of light
O come let us play upon the...
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Categories:
wickets, sports, me, children, me,
Form:
Ballad
Summer
I have no doubt that
soon it will be summer.
The daffodils have taken flight,
fire no more warms the night.
The rain has gone,
no need to run for cover.
Not long now ‘til summer,
blossoms...
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Categories:
wickets, change, summer,
Form:
Rhyme
The Joys of Spring
Oh do you dream of England,
when Spring is in the air?
The hum of bees on gentle breeze
is all that you will hear,
except for farmers, turning hay,
in meadows far and near;
their spotted, knotted handkerchiefs
tied over thinning...
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Categories:
wickets, seasons, spring, spring,
Form:
Verse
Ms Dhoni
DHONI
Here is our Indian Hero,MS Dhoni,
an ideal role model to many.
Whenever Dhoni is batting at the crease,
viewers say,"Do not disturb me please"!
He regards Seven as his lucky number,
and he is as cool as a cucumber.
Everytime...
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Categories:
wickets, dedication, people, sports,
Form:
Personification
Leopards Loose in the Domain
Out of a neon jungle the big cats prowl
the wind in the willows unrecovered,
for when the cats and wind begin to howl
I am stoned and the boys truly mothered!
So I rip...
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Categories:
wickets, friend, games, sports,
Form:
Sonnet
Limerick: Once a Privy Counsellor At Lord's
Limerick : Once a Privy Counsellor at Lord’s
Once a Privy Counsellor at Lord’s*
Watched a bowler* throw balls like gourds
Convened judicial com.*
Summoned bowler to come
And sentenced him to eat bitter gourds.
Lord’s : The Mecca...
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Categories:
wickets, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
Spatterdock Croquet
When Nature frees the lotus
(This year's debut emergence)
From their sleeping seeds,
When they begin to cress the surface,
I shall stand with broadened smile,
...
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Categories:
wickets, flower, nature,
Form:
I do not know?
our platform had no newspapers, so i yelled at someone to throw one across the tracks
i need to know what's going on
we're barren over here, yet over there
look at them smugly reading the NEWS
'can you throw one over pal?'
he pretends not to hear me
and looks down the platform
he's pretending to...
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Categories:
wickets, anxiety, extended metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Pity those who have never been hungry
Hungry cricketers score more runs and take more wickets,
Hungry Doctors tend to make new medical breakthroughs'
Hungry children produce less waste,
Hungry people are more likely to come in out of the cold and join the fold,
Hungry...
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Categories:
wickets, adventure, age, appreciation, art, baptism, beauty, best
Form:
Burlesque
Something I Know
I think I know something in these fraught times
Several arguments later and debates
Accusations that I don’t at all chime
They have the gall to charge me with their hate
And now I know something which is not...
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Categories:
wickets, emotions, silly,
Form:
Quintain (Sicilian)