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Poems tagged ‘Belgium’

WC2018 Day 22 – haiku – Allez Les Blues!

    Tuesday 10th July 2018, Semi-Final 1

France 1-0 Belgium

“some shrink, some blossom” *
Kylian Mbappe shoots
right before our eyes

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Mbappe top drawer
Kev de Bruyne under par
Allez Les Blues

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water carrier
leads France to the oasis
irrigates Les Blues

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Semi final: France reach third Final

France 1-0 Belgium

It was St Petersburg
Where there would fall one nation
France ending the Belgium run
And the golden generation

Like Deschamps they shut shop
The second half wasn’t vinyl
Samuel Umtiti sends
Les Bleus to another final

Pogba was immense
Today he dealt the grime
Working it for Les Bleus
It’s France for the third time

10 07 18

number7
© Emdad Rahman

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Red Devils

Summer without Elvis
is only bearable
with RED DEVILS

Even though we must
be empty-hearted
without Elvis

We do have RED DEVILS

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Past-Present

BELGIUM
“La roja de Martinez”
is what Spain
were once

CROATIA
“Vatreni”
is what HUNGARY
with PusKas were once

ENGLAND
Three Lions is what
Netherlands were once with
Edgar Davids

FRANCE
Les Blues is
what Yugoslavia were once
with Dejan Savicevic Dejo

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WC2018 Day 20 – haiku

Belgium 2-1 Brazil; haiku

Courtois builds a wall
Brazil breach it too late
De Bruyne stands out

France 2-0 Uruguay; haiku

Cavani missed
Muslera flaps, Griezeman claps
Pogba’s pals go thru

EU haiku

Guaranteed today
European continent
Will supply winner

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France & Belgium Semis Bound -Day 20

Europe holds the cards
France and Belgium semis bound
in this mad World Cup

Uruguay 0-2 France

such a strong display
France begin to look the part
wil they go the course?

always in control
one sweet touch and one mistake
sees Les Bleus march on

stripped of Cavani
Uruguay end below par
for their hordes of fans

Brazil 1-2 Belgium

should we be surprised?
De Bruyne and Lukaku
power Belgians through

passion and belief
tactics heart and Belgian strength
sends Brazil boys home

outshone and outdone
Neymar falls and puffs in vain
to the bitter end

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Scottish Bird I Know…

Lives on the balcony below
Likes a bet – steamed in heavily on Brazil
Screams eminating from her flat
When them Brazilians pulled one back
Akin to a baboon riding a pneumatic drill.

‘Tweren’t till full-time whistle went
Her old man, found she’d blown the rent
On Brazil to beat Belgie, three goals to one
Angrily packed a case
Stuck a cancer stick in his face
Grabbed his twirls, then sped off to break bread with his mum.*

“Ah…Hen”, she implored her son,
“OMG what have I done?
Yer father’s packed a case, an roared off in his car
This is the bleating fault of them Brazilians
If they’d won, I’d be sat here counting out me winnings
I forgot to check…did whatisname score their goal for them son?”, “Nae ma”.

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World Cup day 20

Les Bleus reach the semis
Uruguay 0-2 France

Not since 2006
Have France made the last four
Oscar Tabarez’s men
Were today shown the door

We contrast the fates of the keepers
After Raphael Varane’s header
Sheer brilliance from Lloris
A howler from Muslera

Edinson Cavani a huge miss
Failing to make the bench
Griezmann let fly, Muslera flapped
It’s a semi for the French

06 07 18

number7
© emdad rahman

Brilliant Belgium beat Brazil
Belgium 2-1 Brazil

Never in history
Where the global teams gather
Has a World Cup winning team
Been led by a foreign gaffer

Fernandinho and De Bruyne
Diving Neymar in an aerodrome
Augusto with a consolation
Sorry Brazil go home

There’s still much to do
Kompany reigns the celebration
It’s now time to rise
For this golden generation

06 07 18

number7
© emdad rahman

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WC2018 Day 18

Priority haiku

Wild Boar football team
Trapped in underground caves
Hang in there boys!

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Brazil 2-0 Mexico

Samba stars shake hips
Neymar, Willian lead the dance
Brazil dominate

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Neymar notches stat
Two hundred twenty seven
All time top scorers

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Belgium 3-2 Japan

surprise two nil lead
Red Devils claw back from brink
Blue Samurai blues

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Brazil & Mexico Through haiku -WC Day 18

Brazil 2-0 Mexico

like some yellow tide
strolling to that samba beat
will this be their time?

always second best
Mexico do eve’rything
ev’rything but score

Neymar rolls and cries
but relentless as a train
Willian the key

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Belgium 3-2 Japan

battling on supreme
Samurai lay down their swords
to that late late strike

from a tricky start
brave Japan dictate in vain
falling at the last

heads held high they leave
memories of might have beens
and clean stadiums*

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Source: http://footballpoets.org/news/poem-tags/belgium/page/2/