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as the Indian pitches
are always spin prepared
few batsmen ever
get well spared

the bowler's turn
of the ball does the trick
there is that out sound
in the bat's snick

Aussie selectors must be
aware of a slow delivery
when they name the team
who'll carry the livery

quicks are a dead loss
on the subcontinent
time and again this
has been so consistent

if we want to win
a test series on Indian soil
we can't let our eleven
be sent there to boil

the wicket has constantly
favored wrists and fingers
so we don't require
fast stinging zingers
nivek Apr 2014
A programme on T.V.
keeps repeating
"THE MAN WITH TEN STONE TESTICLES".

If anyone came round with the video.
Pass.
Nat Lipstadt Dec 2013
first read
http://hellopoetry.com/poem/life-circles/#after-reading
After-reading
including the notes  and the  exchange in the comments section. Then begin to read the words below, for they are derivative thereof.
Also
ponder this quote from a play by Richard Greenberg.
''I speak when I have something to say. When I have nothing to say, I write.''


the contriving is all that remains,
so,
with a bow and a great flourish,
my hat, right-handed swooping,
grazing my knee,
I tender my amazement at what the
lives of all these contrivers,
bring me each day.

Long Live All Poets!

the contortionists, the evolutionists,
hard working smithies, risers with dawn,
selectors, all day long tasters,
all night long scene stealers,
of each word that parses their
five senses,
even the contrivers,
need, deserve,
get their day in court.

you know the real poets
by their every day
discourses,
for your subconscious
rhymes their every response,
even their *thank you's
and yes, please,
please all nearby,
like a thanksgiving prayer
spent, sent heavenwards ,
each word
lifted up skyward, alongside the hearts
that move to hop on, join their
poetic alephs and bets.

the haiku masters who
breath lifetimes into a moment,
the balladeers who ferment
tales unseen but conjure them
as forever keeps of yes! I was there,
the sonneteers, the lyricists,
so powerful these wizards place their
visions in our throats to hum when hearing
spoke a single one, a phrase, of their words

the contriving.
how I adore that word
as if the work was
the easy part,
and the insighting,
the feeling,
the noticing,
the tugging at the heart was
the easy art.

oh lord forgive me I write too much,
see beyond what I see,
hear the street snatches of conversation
and drip those reformatted words from mine eyes,

is that your blessing or your curse?

let me be just a contriver,
a poet who
follows form and function,
and gets an A from his English Lit. professor,
acknowledging expertise
at contriving
per poetic custom acceptable

whY did you insert this knowing,
this sensory malfunctioning that cusses
lest I not transform the everyday of the
everysay into verses and stanzas.

Reimer, Reimer, beloved scoundrel and schemer,
what have you undone to me!
he who never sleeps, just
weeps and weeps,
for you have contrived me yet gain
to see something I saw before,
always knew but never wrote,
in this exact format,
but all life long knew, and blubber anew
at words that I never knew existed in
this precise combination.

you can cannot contrive the spirit that
moves us to write, the words employed,
yes perhaps, but all
even the struggle for
le mot jus,
oft for naught^^
the repetitive, the uninventive,
glorify.

I survive,
I contrive.
but far more imposing,
is the knowing,
that tho the contriving still remains,
it is a cost so costly,
and I must include herein
that every verse
of every poem
ever writ,
every contrivation,
every submission,
even the worst simplest is a blessing,
even the simplest worst is a blessing.


all are:
"the fruit of promise,
a table replete,
hope restored,
a circle complete."^

Yet, t'is the fluid visionaries shall lead us
to our restful place
even if they cannot speak,
even if they cannot write,
just contrive.
___________________________________________
^ http://hellopoetry.com/poem/life-circles/#after-reading


*It is in an instant, that life makes a poem in a man's mind, that will live longer than that that oak.
Nat*

*Reply
SE Reimer
i've reflected on your words, several times now, Nat, and find them to be such an accurate description of my experience with writing... though the words may move around a bit, once conceived, the contriving is all that remains.*

^^le mot juste
"the right word" in French. Coined by 19th-century novelist Gustave Flaubert, who often spent weeks looking for the right word to use.
Flaubert spent his life agonizing over "le mot juste." Now Madame Bovary is available in 20 different ****** english translations, so now it doesn't really make a **** bit of difference.
LD Goodwin  Jan 2013
Evolution
LD Goodwin Jan 2013
I may never know the reasons of the storm that passed my way.
Or the multitude of questions that lay at bay.
They await to pounce upon me like jungle cats at night,
while the din of distant drumming tests my might.

Ever now and then I get a glimpse of who I am,
and I feel myself evolving into man.
Amid the single bars and credit cards and reaching for the ring,
I close my eyes and realize I'm here to do one thing........ I'm here to sing.

I'm strung out on evaluation of what my life is worth,
and struggle with the narrow distance between death and birth.
They say love is never wasted, words so easily said,
so why is this empty feeling, still laying in my bed?

Hurry Darwin, hurry. I need a double dose of time.
To quickly re-arrange these chromosomes , to make me more the prime.
Selectors and Breeders are really all we are.
Evolvers;  Some will still be cheaters, and some will still set the bar.
Ft. Walton Beach, FL  1992
Ken Pepiton  Aug 2023
End staging
Ken Pepiton Aug 2023
The grand canyon runs between
the part of Mohave County blessed
with coverage
after the fallout
from the fifties,
and the lower part, south of the river,
east of the bend, there at Topock swamp.

Cancers above the line made by the river,
were rewarded, cash in some cases,
class actions and such, after the bloom
in GI Bill Law School Degrees…

leukemia in babies,
Downwinders in Mojave County,
just ended, dead, of northern afflictions.

Things like that and Julia Roberts,
got the voters to agree,
Lawyers should advertise,
- leading to what we have today
free speech, facing a true Kuhnian shift,
Directly presented, plain
for all
to see,
What freedom of the press was
to the owners of all means of exploitation,
freedom of speech, after internet, aight, is to any.
Any who, even you.
Who,
should any ask what Marshall McLuhan
continues to do, through 'is link to all you know,
text in context, denoting informed consent, you
think, as you read, and so
doing you do the deed, done so. We read,
thinking back
only one long mortal lifetime ago, we mostly did not.
On the whole,
have you never imagined
how many more of us know,
what was against the law for beings of the baser sort,
to learn, long
a tradition among the power elites, owners,
of all the national resources,
in a global syndicate,
entities, interests, trusts 'n'such, which
follow the pattern of the jewel merchants,
control the sources.
Restrict library cards immediately,
Carnegie is laughing from his grave… his will
- he did appreciate his Kipling
written in Indian Ink, under the Raj, If inspires yet,
as does Gunga Deen.
Film. Yes. Won't last. that medium,
too much trouble to watch it again, when
one can read a play, or a novel, or a poem per
haps forever, if the terminii are all out of sight.
As a lad, I was allowed to watch all the television,
I wished, and I wished I had a thousand channels,
in 1955, when Wyatt Earp got his life and legend
projected

into the worth cube at the core of mankind…
for all American boys, pun is there, naturally, all
of us American boys, no matter what our mommas were,
we, 1955, had been pledging five days a week, aliegiance,
we were sons of soldiers who had won the last war,
the one in all the inspirational Hays code cleared war movies.

Realist mind game art, in context, humbled,
by the giants tuned into, before the contest began, Truth
who dares, all comers. Common mental trope, all comers
come on, oppose my point and fall across my edge.

Little children, keep your selves from idols, such as
hold I role in all active avatars at any given point
in time, in tyranny over your bit in the mind of man,
taken to play mind games that are crafted for enjoying
the peace of selective reality powers we all can attain.

Write your self a tower to watch from, and watch,
Carnegie reading Kipling
by kerosene Rockefeller sold… meld into if

if you wish, imagine lampblack ink, or better,
squid ink, infused with carbon so pure, it seems
invisible, finest dust of diamond waste, used once
to shine a patterned steel san-mai blade.

Imagine the very smartest, not Einstein, person
alive when decisions were being discussed, crossing
swords with science use and useless social controls,
e.g. you know,
gra-acious example, interesting times, sifting selectors
goodness gracious, we have, in point of fact, too much
to filter with no reason,
why should one care to know why secrets are de rigueur,
poor soul asked what is going on, replys,
regular stuff, I suppose… ah, ag me on, suppose,

I invited Ben, Voltaire, and Nieztsche to cheese,
as I morphed into the Disneyified U.S. Certified myth.
The mouse in Ben and me, was the voice of the NPC.
- we had Verne's spinning disc libraries since
- drop a name from the hagiosphere of AI and IT
- Grace Murray Hopper… she's a memory.

Such books, we hold, as factual data, they hold words,
we, the current people, the fluid factor through which
CG NPCs pass in movies and games and entertainment,
- each pass think
who notices other people?
All the time, I mean, who cares, most of the time?

Crazy edgies, mad folk, filled with insights some time
passing left as artifacts, if you can believe this,
your world view shall encompass all one need know
about
why
we speak of the fall, and of original sin, we allow
priests and politicians and attention pimps, to lie.

Today, own self, and whole self,
declare adaptive lettering tech, publishing far and wide
art insisting, dare do,

think it through, couple thousand words,
what if you learn one cool new way
to think unthinkable things good
to know… post hoc.
We live as loudly as we must... life is simple, not too simple, more is sublime,
not empty of all hope that any thing you believed was a little bit true. Hard to think, but after all easy to get past... life, as a whole.
so few of my pieces
tend to go on and trend
which is proof that they
aren't of the right rend

the behind the scenes
selectors don't like my stuff
they reckon it smells worse
than camphor *****

for some time I proffered
sub standard work  
which has met with their
side way smirks

the officials who have oversight
at the trending room
are of the one mind
in wanting my poems to doom

yet I shall try to better
my output of daily disasters
so they'll be more appealing
to the trending masters
They label you a mad man if you stare at a can
They label you dumb if your thoughts are numb
To society where it's a incomplete conundrums
Dancing satellites happy people prancing around silently
See there brittle souls slowly unfold and withold
The greatest gift of all it's not love much more above
Than that the have the decency of a sneaking rat
Waiting for the right moment to steal your joy
Energy vampires ******* life out of even the lifeless
Even the corpses are breakin'out of their graves
Bravery is proclaimed by cowardiness
Shame is praised for happiness sun kissed
Sand glistening don't mistake it mother nature is listening
The violent winds are painting the trends violins
A tune that only the most conscious can hear
The ears twitches to the stroke of the rhythm
The waves clashing showing temper and anger
Giving signs of early danger but we are stranger
As all outdoors enjoying life playing a decoy
Technology is the new ology humanities treachery
Love thy neighbor and covet thy wives lives
Are rather thrown at us not by our instrospectives
But by our local government and politicians who are selectors
Molding us into a sinister creation
Parks build but no one is filled or skilled anymore
Kids play games rather than scoup up sand with their cupped hands
And watch it til its very last grain damaging stains
Is this all in my head or from chaos i see daily read
I see a field view of the ponds trying to play King
But we are at checkmate waiting for our freedom bells from liberty to rings
But know our biggest achievements will be when we touch the cemetery
And thats what matters the most because the genius at hand is often the ghost host
Standing like the ten commandments
Got **** it critics cant stand it glance it
Dont chance it im flippin' ships off the corporate
Body of bodies hide the shotti then im Audi
Mic engineer breaking through the atmosphere
Mirrors heaven in hell inside of a jail cell
Hope all goes well? Most folks growing stale
Tryna scrap for crumbs following the hums
Of dumbs I dodge the invitation to slums
Layout the spectrum code the conundrum
Black folks retrace ya pace it ain't about race
Giving chase to a wicked taste toxic waste
Know thy self gain thy wealth for health
They called me crazy cuz society labelled me
Black sheep of the modern day families
Blazin' doobies skip the fly jacuzzi spray ***'s
Til it equals a ton number one keep critics on a run the kingdom come
Thy will be done one earth as it wreckons
Angels beckon me out of the will they say chill
Gods manifesting through the drug ventures
Mind adventures flows activate the dentures
Skeleton helicopters breaking off coppers
Ghetto residence still climbing the fence
Intense word to prince tryna void the pop life
Side chick the game I can't make her my wife
When it's all put in the plan from war reprimands
Still I rise as a black clan guess what you da man!!

Everyday is rowdy Sally still gettin' hit in the alley
Back breaks she can't pump her brakes for fate
They say it's because of poor choices
Hard to ignore the conscious noises
Check in my b-boy poise expose the expos
Stay with baggy *** clothes souf side holds  
Jean creased with the fold knock out trolls
I got the keys Benjamin electric shocks
Make the body rock black rocky convulsion
Explosion begins the epic deadly corrosion
You heard it best not from the West but the best
Southeast Texas they can't wreck us selectors
Get blessed by my healing stressors gun testers
Bring ya weathers below body temp these shrimps
Cant hang with sharks
Hunt the dark til the blood trickles a spark
Spice one born to die laying in my neighborhood
Feelin' like Robin Hoods minus the tights
But make breathers tight break ya might
They can't see the site sunshine your sight
While the moons dancing behind space
Curtains for certain descriptive as Burton
Tim rest in peace to the timbs fashion stocks
Young jocks ain't peepin' the blocks its too hot
Catching summer colds as the chem trails flow
White flakes invoking hate hard not to debate
Pigeon English so just sit back enjoy the circus
Circuits blow close the show for dough
**** the dough blast the CEOs door for sure
Guerilla warfare tactics Fidel fanatic plastic
Uncovered light the the cubans slow really doe?
In the end will you be a friend or a slick foe?

— The End —