Football Poets

When the guns finished their mowing
The fields were bereft of grass
Just mud and blood and scattered limbs
Where only stretcher bearers pass

The lines, as such as they were
Marked by discordant trenches
And the […]

I dreamt.
The usual.
Me. Ball. Net.
World Cup Final.

If you didn’t see me scoring
it’s because
my dreams are firewalled.
And not because
I didn’t.
Or couldn’t.

🙂

~ # match time # ~

This poet struggles to land the words:
not so much from lack of inspiration,
(for this is World Cup Final day)
no, in part, it’s paternalistic pride –
fingers bent backwards by a ferocious sho […]

My hope for the final

Don’t wants me a donkey
Don’t wants me a llama
What I want is a classic
A final full of drama

Don’t wants me a lizard
Don’t wants me a gecko
What I want is a benchmark
In the birthpl […]

Argentine manager Alex Sabella on Lionel Messi:

“He is water in the desert”

under the hot sun
the only sign of life
is from the jewel of a droplet
that both sustains and nourishes
and is the spring
for a thi […]

World Cup Semi-Final
Argentina 0 – 0 Netherlands

A lack of bottle
Unwilling to take first kick
All bar Vlaar

~ # ~

If you torture the ball long enough, it will confess
A succession
Of the sideways […]

Brazil 1 – 7 Germany

Shaken Sonnet

Beyond the Bounds of Belief!
And the crowd are stricken with grief
the Seleçao shown to have too many flaws
as the Germans are profligate with their scores!
they drive th […]

Today’s yin
To yesterday’s yang
We waited and waited
But it never went bang!

I was in and out of the room
But missed no action
Stultifying and turgid
From over compaction

It was a snorefest
A complete and utt […]

Day 25

Hashtag nonsense
Or maybe I’m just bitter
That I’m not
Conversant on twitter!

Hashtag BeautifulGame
They’re all so much fitter
Than me
And all posting on twitter

Hashtag Where […]

Day 23

Neymar sets the tone
sweat and toil over sheer skill
back breaking effort

~ # ~

Day 24

The sun has got its hat on
Hip hip hip hooray!
Beautiful beaches beckon
But the World Cup is in play!

And the […]

Day 15

By Zeus!
Zusi goes close!
Klose closer.
Mueller marauds
crowd applauds
Germany gemmiferous.

Ronaldo reneges
on a hat-full of chances
the boy wonder
torn asunder
at opportunities missed –
there’s no t […]

Day 7

haiku

abdication done
La Roja crown removed
Mondial mourns

~ # ~

one dimensional
tiki taki tattered
end of an era

~ # ~

Chile chose:
Short, sharp and inventive
Beating the reigning champs
Was their […]

Poor Ecuador:

There was plenty of heart and endeavour
But decisions didn’t go their way
Participation they now sever
But kudos for keeping France at bay

Poor France:

As in a certain lack of finishing p […]

Now everyone has finally arrived at the party
Some bearing surprise presents
Some with glorious gifts
And some have arrived empty-handed

With two more rounds of pass-the-parcel
We’ll soon see who gets the c […]

So good to see
Great open attacking play
Not a draw in sight

~ # ~

Germany 4 – 0 Portugal

a flower doesn’t bloom
without the presence of its petals
the stem doesn’t sprout
without the reality of its roots […]

A mixture of matches
Tasty in patches
Testy in some
And last-minute glum!

The most obvious trend
A style to befriend (?!)
Different coloured boots:
Pink or blue? He shoots!

England 1 – 2 Italy

By esteemed opinion
there is but one dominion
in the parlance of Pirlo –
peerless

as fearless
as England atypically were
we could but only purr –
at Pirlo

unfortunately
the winner came from […]

Spain v Holland

Due to previous commitments
I was watching knowing the score
(a situation I deplore)
But still, I couldn’t see it coming
And the blitz had us thumbing
Texts and blogs and bits and bytes
As the D […]

The build-up: it’s usually all about Wayne
Or degenerates acting crudely;
But seeing young Oxygen-Chamber in such pain
It really is all about rue knee!

~ # ~

Boxfest

My dearest wish
for this competition s […]

That chance …
Came and went

The last chance
The only chance …
Came and went

Could’ve, should’ve, would’ve …
We’ve cogitated and ruminated
We’ve pondered and critiqued
We’re agitated and exasperated
It’s […]