Plucky Jamaica shocks the Copa America winners, Brazil, in a scoreless draw that propels the Reggae Girlz to the knockout stage for the first time in only their second Women’s World Cup, and with only one goal in Group stage. Contrast that with Brazil’s first group-stage exit since the 1995 World Cup. Not the best way for Brazil’s mighty Marta Vieira da Silva to end her sixth and final Women’s World Cup.
beautiful chaos
‘how the mighty have fallen’—
Reggae Girlz advance
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Poetry notes:
"Oh How the Mighty Have Fallen" is a phrase that originates from 2 Samuel 1:19, an expression of David's lament over the death of Saul and Jonathan. It is also used today as a phrase to imply the decline of a once-great person or entity.
Categories:
scoreless, football, soccer, sports, women,
Form: Haibun
The first three boring innings ended scoreless.
Then, in the fourth I took a walk to first.
She was managing her business in the dugout.
I was ready when a double’s gusher burst.
I beat the throw to home and scored an easy run.
She liked the way I took the bases fast.
When she called me her penultimate slugger,
I’d no idea that meant the next to last.
Although my stats were solid and consistent,
I wasn’t the right cog for her machine.
I was traded for the sake of sabermetrics,
In the wake of her affair with Billy Beane.
Categories:
scoreless, allegory, baseball, relationship,
Form: Burlesque
Trump Critical of the Grinch
Trump has been critical of the Grinch,
And poor thing he will want to bench;
From beginning,
Scoreless inning;
For Trump to lose is an absolute cinch.
(Chicken neck we would like to wrench.)
Jim Horn
Even Santa would ho, ho, ho at this one.
Categories:
scoreless, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
You are our liberator
For seven years confined
Searching for a love connector
You complete our lives, true hearts bind
All nine yards of happiness
Send it far up to nine planets
In scoreless game, evoking wittiness
On cloud nine, all in a bucket
Turning 9 years old is great
What have you made in your wish list?
Special nine wishes, genie can relate
I am out of the bottle; all I need is a kiss
Choose with care
And to choose the important one
Don’t turn 9 upside down on the square
Feeling old, do again your childish run
Nice, imaginative, nascent, eligible
Evidence to be special and be loved
Last single-digit birthday is appreciable
You’re fast growing up, it justly proved
Poem for my son on his 9th birthday
April 19, 2016
Categories:
scoreless, birthday, blessing, child, happy
Form: Rhyme
Our Women Playing Soccer
America's soccer women will win and win
And do it over and over again and again
Scoreless, they have held other teams to
They scored enough goals which will do.
Are a team who has the best balance
Reliance is on all of their many talents
Before each game prayed to the Lord;
Won after each time that they scored.
Finals have arrived at and they are in
And we hope soon glory will have been
In their eyes with each and every goal
Whole other teams were left in the cold.
James Thomas Horn, Retired Veteran and Poet
Categories:
scoreless, soccer,
Form: Couplet
Thoughts and dreams'
How close they can seem
- And -
Yet, transcend
A different height
Then they are all about you
A warm summers' breeze
To chill a cool summer's night
- And -
I can see a star
Peeping threw the trees'
Measure by measure
The scoreless keeps'
The stars' began to sparkle
By and by
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Why does' my heart trouble me not
Even though it may shake
As though shattered
By a quake
But, my dreams' need not suffer
Needless or not
Gary Fields
Poet/Author
From: "The Cross"
Xlibris book #106627
Rev. (NOV2013)
Categories:
scoreless, absence, beautiful, confusion, deep,
Form: Bio
Thought's and dreams'
How close they can seem
And yet, transcend
A different height
Then they are all about
You,
A warm summer's breeze
To chill a cool summer's night
And I can see a star
Peeping threw the trees'
Measure by measure
The scoreless keeps'
The stars' began to sparkle by and by
Why does' my heart trouble me
Not,
Eventhough it may shake
As though shattered
By a quake
But my dreams' need
Not suffer
Needless or not
GF
Categories:
scoreless, fantasy
Form: Light Verse
free versing is a scoreless, netless
tennis game;
rhyming, is a refereed version
of the same.
Categories:
scoreless, art, on writing and
Form: Crystalline