Tales of Two Run Outs
...There was a legend in the world of cricket,
For whom fans rushed to buy the tickets.
Who started getting run out on 1st wicket
And like a poem, got run-out as well in his last ODI wicket.
He ...
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Categories:
team spirit, appreciation, childhood, devotion, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
A Recipe For Fun
...A RECIPE FOR FUN
Author: Dennis Howe
February 2001
Take ten
seasoned ball players and throw
in a large pinch of leather and aluminum.
Put the mix on a dirt field in the shape of a diamond
an...
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Categories:
team spirit, softball,
Form: Free verse
Team Spirit
...Tick, lick, suck
Team, dream, win
One wants all
All wants one...
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Categories:
team spirit, together, truth,
Form: Epigram
Cricket World Cup
...https://youtu.be/A7NzFzy7_NE
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Cricket no...
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Categories:
team spirit, celebration, destiny, faith, fate,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Mismanagement
...Mismanagement
Cut the staff
Expect more done
Never say thank you
To anyone
Take the credit
Pass the blame
Things go wrong
Its what’s his name
Initiative
This must be banned
Make staff j...
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Categories:
team spirit, abuse, jobs,
Form: Rhyme
To the Unknown Artiste
...People sing in praise of a lead performer;
And the person playing the second fiddle
Often goes unsung and unhonoured.
That is the fate of all such auxiliary artistes, say,
A guitarist strumming...
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Categories:
team spirit, music,
Form: Free verse
Isolated
...In the evening I looked around
no one I could see with me
yet we climbed altitude together
a team of ten without team spirit
the strong cold wind enter my eyes
vampires and anacondas
move near....
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Categories:
team spirit, conflict, metaphor, political,
Form: Free verse
I-Claudio
...I-Claudio
Eccentric and affable, charming and wily,
Oozing charm and charisma, staying lucid and smiley,
The perfect comparison to what came before,
And he brought us a miracle, now we've sh...
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Categories:
team spirit, football, sad,
Form: Free verse
Society
...Sisterhood of sorts
Order following set of laws
Communion with shared beliefs
Identifies goals that perceive
Encourage an attitude of
Team spirit instilling norms
Yielding to collective consci...
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Categories:
team spirit, sister, society,
Form: Acrostic
Hard Work At Play
...Challenging
ourselves
to be
better than
the day
before
Is the work
of our fun
at play
The game
requires that
we sweat
But the boss
says
it's worth it
Motivation in
learning and
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Categories:
team spirit, business, career, character, image,
Form: Free verse
Bumble-Bee On Fruits
...Bumble-bee on fruits
The silly me
The silly bumble-bee
Bumble-bee buzz in ears
Bumble-bee hovers on flowers
Flowers in Ikebana
Flowers spread fragrance
Fragrance of petrichor
Fragrance of c...
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Categories:
team spirit, art,
Form: Blitz
Bird of Love and Loyalty
...Stork flights in unison To teach unity to every person
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Categories:
team spirit, bird, character, family, mother,
Form: Couplet
A Recipe For Fun
...> >
> > A RECIPE FOR FUN
> > Author: Dennis Howe
> > February 2001
> >
> > Take ten
> > seasoned ball players and throw
> > in a large pinch of leather and aluminum.
> > Put the mix on a di...
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Categories:
team spirit, softball,
Form: Free verse
Team Spirit
...I asked the cricket coach
If I could play on the First Grade team,
He said that couldn't happen,
It was only in my dream.
I said, what about if the whole team got sick,
Would I stand a chance ...
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Categories:
team spirit, children, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Oh What a Season
...Last year I wrote of a Red Sox team
The fans did not exactly scream
They could not swing, field or hit
Last place was theirs, that was it.
But John Henry said ENOUGH of that
I will not let this te...
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Categories:
team spirit, baseball,
Form: Rhyme
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