World's number one and two in batting's Who's Who
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Yorkshire’s blessed treasure chest best take their Test berth as they surf the crest out on the hallowed turf
The self anointed..God’s own country..didn’t rest..hasn’t disappointed..simple ploy
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Categories:
treacle, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Sanga Banga
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Who is the greatest from the land of the other hand…
The pure top draw..southpaw....
Lara or Spice Isle style.. guile and
Wiles of Kumar Sangakarra..
Who wouldn’t hanker in their sea...
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Categories:
treacle, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Venal Treacle
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Written: April 21, 2025, for contest sponsored by Brian Strand
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Eat
this
red
fruit
my
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Categories:
treacle, appreciation, betrayal,
Form: Shape
Country Pubs
...Bubbling babbling burbling banter from the bar..
Sup hush….memory lane trip...Proustian rush..pleasingly tickled.
Plushly ebbed…spidery beer swirls webbed…lace whirls..grace dimpled dappled ja...
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Categories:
treacle, culture,
Form: Free verse
The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown
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“The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown”
That man built a house
of straw and sticks
and the stories that burned within -
all consuming the titled prize;
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Categories:
treacle, muse,
Form: Narrative
The Gallery, Gala, Larry, Part 2
...Students their little burning harmonies | you compos’d it
One single gallery | public arras blasé debate re-placed
Sheets just- | cool on clothesline whiskered with wear.
Variousness was it| trus...
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Categories:
treacle, art, humanity, metaphor, natural
Form: Free verse
Hurt The Same
...Stuttering heaves of prickling breaths
the wind I swallowed is laughing at me
or is it the oxygen it boasts that mocks the lungs that crave
ammunition, cogent, to birth veristic life?
Whatever ...
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Categories:
treacle, allusion, angst, red, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Television News Reporter
...Cinnabar remittance ailerons squall federal cobblestones. Lank alpine squint modest. Nectarine grimace, cloys toothsome.
Coiffure chain rod composure anemic, primogeniture Swedish cotton murk optics...
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Categories:
treacle, cat,
Form: Free verse
Sheetal and the Dung Beetle
...This rhyme may seem strange but each word's truly equal
Now Beetle's tale's done no need for a sequel.
They'd chat by the teazel of matters so lethal
Of sequels and prequels and justice so penal.
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Categories:
treacle, humor, nursery rhyme, satire,
Form: Light Verse
My Twilight Dream Catcher
...My twilight Dream Catcher.
Sweet melodies tug at my heart strings.
The waves roll in as the blue whale sings.
As empty moonbeams fade,
In the cosmos evenly laid.
Layers of complexity.
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Categories:
treacle, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Indescribable
...I can only feel this cold sensation brush against my feet
The warmth crispen my fingertips
As you walk on by
The aromas that I smell around this environment
My sight
Indescribable
I f...
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Categories:
treacle, depression,
Form: Free verse
A brushstroke choreographing dramatic elegy framing harmonic gavotte
...A brushstroke choreographing dramatic elegy framing harmonic gavotte
specified such so as to issue a rhyme,
but proceeded as this scribe
didst git linkedin with the cutting crew,
mow or less...
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Categories:
treacle, 12th grade, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Rum n Raisin 14 Pt 2 - The Flight Before Christmas Pt 2
...Soon, the sun was lying low, a bright full moon was now on show
Santa switched on Walnut’s glow… “Ho Ho Ho and away we go.”
Walnut played along and led the team of reindeer and their sled
A dog th...
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Categories:
treacle, cat, christmas, dog,
Form: Narrative
Wished
...Ted is a novice when skating on ice
Kept slipping and falling twenty times twice
Body shattered and battered
And his teeth were all scattered
Prayed the tooth fairy will give a good price
Sou...
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Categories:
treacle, body, fate, insect,
Form: Limerick
Electric Anticipation
...I can feel it.
It’s not quite tangible,
Just out of reach,
Yet nonetheless real.
Like a sixth sense on my sixth sense.
The anticipation hangs in the air,
The thick, jelly like, immovable a...
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Categories:
treacle, anxiety, power,
Form: Free verse
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