No Ego Joe Show
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On every outing…no touting or fostering of pouty louty shouty postering…
No flouting of the definition of classical ebb and flow rendition…
Yet boundaries scouting…Rooty sedition routing th...
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Categories:
scoreboard, spoken word, sports,
Form: Ballad
Gladiator Games
...The arena is built lie by lie, sobs by sobs.
Names don't matter.
A game is still a game,
called by any other name.
Children with ribs like shattered shields
do not volunteer; they are raised f...
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Categories:
scoreboard, allegory, dark, world,
Form: Free verse
Not being silly is Jamie Smith the new Gilly
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5 down..for just 84..what do you do.. try and survive..shut the door..or instead more hardcore jive...out on the lash ..go to town..
On his way to 184..borrowed the crown from the real deal sur...
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Categories:
scoreboard, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Rooty eclipses Sachin's sun
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Let's toot & salute
Folks our bespoke bloke
Having a hoot..
Bearing fruit loot
English cricketing oak
Celestial extra terrestrial Groot
Can't be snooty about tutti fruity
Rooty's booty o...
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Categories:
scoreboard, sports,
Form: Rhyme
The Fab Four is no more
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The fab four...not Scouse superstar serenaders..
Stellar constellations of cricketing fascinations...
Connoisseur christened, humdinger harbingers..
Listen…whispers of willow wizardry...
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Categories:
scoreboard, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Playing the Game
...There is a game we all must play
Without the slightest hope of winning.
It doesn't cease at end of day,
From start to end, it's one long inning.
The game observes no rules, no guidelines,
Though...
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Categories:
scoreboard, death, life, perspective,
Form: Verse
DNA
...DNA
“You are not worthy of my love.”
Silent words scorch skin like an invisible flame.
DNA passed down and left to wither,
a family heirloom I don’t dare claim.
A cracked and shattered mirror,...
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Categories:
scoreboard, anger, family, father, father
Form: Rhyme
Saturday Afternoon
...Watching the cricket.
The oval looks great
Home team in green shirts
Visitors in blue
Scoreboard looming large
Sitting to long
Butt getting sore
Bench is to hard
Heading for home
Kitchen...
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Categories:
scoreboard, food, sports,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
1960
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Johnny Cash gives it away for free,
John K says he would like to be Prez.
Richard Nixon will run against him,
so the republican party says.
Lamar Cox gets 44th KO,
‘The Stilt’ scores 58 in o...
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Categories:
scoreboard, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Life Threw One Inconvenience At Me and Now I Live In a Treehouse
...You're like the moon, with all your cathartic phases
And I'm like the stars
if each one was a mental cliff I lost my grip on;
There's just too many to count from the ground
Im watching paint ...
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Categories:
scoreboard, anxiety, dedication, fear, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Tennis Love
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Two sets
Apiece
To each player
And this is the
Final set...
What a contest!
Both the players
Fighting to win
The match
Is equal
The scoreboard
6-6
And we e...
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Categories:
scoreboard, love, sports,
Form: Free verse
Doubted Than Shouted and Pouted
...when we had doubted
many bad names were shouted
perturb and pouted
for words complete loss
that created much chaos
in bed turn and toss
rather repugnant
as well as being pungent
must be c...
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Categories:
scoreboard, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Wordsmiths Worst Nightmare
...Wordsmith's worst nightmare
fortunately thwarted courtesy
mine tall tale telling flair.
Mine irretrievable brilliant masterpiece...
all for naught after mental cogs and wheels
I did apply c...
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Categories:
scoreboard, anger, angst, confusion, fate,
Form: Rhyme
One Hand On the Steering Wheel, the Other Waving At the Moon
...in traffic there is an accidie and weariness
and flatness and humdrum of the road
but leonard cohen helps with that
and i think about the poor north koreans
without their fix of coca cola
and th...
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Categories:
scoreboard, humor, humorous, mental health,
Form: Free verse
The Book of Numbers
...I feel like Archimedes building calculus from scratch;
Got a lever I can lean on, but the fulcrum doesn’t match.
You’ll find them on the scoreboard
And every roulette wheel.
They help you chea...
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Categories:
scoreboard, allegory,
Form: Lyric
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