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Argentina 1 – Switzerland 0 (Sonnet)

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Shall I compare you, winger, to a tortoise

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 Awkward and slow – the likeness is most stark

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 But then again you don’t amuse supporters

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 As reptiles do with kids at Regent’s Park

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 Shall I compare you, midfield, to an ass

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 For you don’t seem the brightest person ever

7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 But beasts of burden rarely miss the pass

8 Leave a comment on verse 8 0 And you won’t see them try to be too clever

9 Leave a comment on verse 9 0 Shall I compare you, keeper, to a chicken

10 Leave a comment on verse 10 0 So hesitant and delicately soft

11 Leave a comment on verse 11 0 But no: few birds look quite so panic-stricken

12 Leave a comment on verse 12 0 Or find it difficult to spring aloft

13 Leave a comment on verse 13 0 Such slights to animals are most unfair

14 Leave a comment on verse 14 0 And rather flatter men with false compare

Notes

PS: I’ve been writing one sonnet per every playing day.
Click here for ‘ World Cup Sonnets’ Henri Astier ~ London

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/argentina-1-switzerland-0-sonnet/