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[Other Sport] Poetry



crodonilson

He/Him
Jan 17, 2005
14,062
Lyme Regis
Anyone else enjoy reading a bit of poetry from time to time?? Always been partial to a nice bit of prose and came across this particularly moving piece online this evening which I thought NSC would enjoy by a gentleman called Ryan from Cheshire.

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Is it PotG?

Thrifty non-licker
Feb 20, 2017
25,465
Sussex by the Sea
Oh Cliff! / Sometimes it must be difficult not to feel as if / You really are a cliff / When fascists keep trying to push you over it! / Are they the lemmings, or are you Cliff? Or ARE you, Cliff?
 


Guinness Boy

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Jul 23, 2003
37,342
Up and Coming Sunny Portslade
You use a spoon so elegantly
When cereal you are eating
But please dishwash it proper
Or you're dropped at the "team meeting"
 


The Clamp

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NSC Patron
Jan 11, 2016
26,193
West is BEST
Like scabies
I've got you under my skin
With you, life is like a fairytale...Grimm
 






crodonilson

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Jan 17, 2005
14,062
Lyme Regis


Pavilionaire

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Jul 7, 2003
31,267
Even the great Henry Wadsworth Longfellow couldn't fit the words "totem pole" in his Red Indian-inspired magnus opus "The Song Of Hiawatha", so credit to Giggsy for that.
 


Guinness Boy

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Up and Coming Sunny Portslade
Who wouldn't send this to the jam in their doughnut?

G is for gorgeous

R is for radiant

E is for extraordinary

V is for vivacious

I is for idolised, by me

L is for legs

L is for legs

E is for everything I've ever wanted
 




Cheshire Cat

The most curious thing..
Phillip Larkin, eat your heart out......

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0019yy2

They **** you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were ****ed up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.
 


crodonilson

He/Him
Jan 17, 2005
14,062
Lyme Regis
Who wouldn't send this to the jam in their doughnut?

G is for gorgeous

R is for radiant

E is for extraordinary

V is for vivacious

I is for idolised, by me

L is for legs

L is for legs

E is for everything I've ever wanted

Quite superb, looking forward to Giggsys guide to Poetry as a stocking filler for Mrs Crodo this Christmas.
 


Pavilionaire

Well-known member
Jul 7, 2003
31,267
Who wouldn't send this to the jam in their doughnut?

G is for gorgeous

R is for radiant

E is for extraordinary

V is for vivacious

I is for idolised, by me

L is for legs

L is for legs

E is for everything I've ever wanted

That reminds me of that Ottawan hit:

"D.I.S.C.O
D.I.S.C.O
Giggs is DISCO
Giggs is DISCO.
He is D, deceitful
He is I, impossible
He is S, superficial
He is C, crazy, crazy
He is O, oh, oh..."
 




vegster

Sanity Clause
May 5, 2008
28,273
It's rather interesting that the " Footballing Poet " in question has had a character witness attend court on Friday... said character witness was famous for threatening, bullying and intimidating match officials and indeed the odd player or two.. one received a cut eyebrow at half time.... could this be a bit of an Own Goal ?
 


Coldeanseagull

Opinionated
Mar 13, 2013
8,355
Coldean
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
What Bill meant was, you're a sweaty bint
 


Biscuit

Native Creative
Jul 8, 2003
22,320
Brighton
I used to play out on the left wing.
I like it when you touch my thing.
I makes me hard and wet,
And I love you, like a loyal pet.

Ryan, aged 48 and a half.
 






Questions

Habitual User
Oct 18, 2006
25,510
Worthing
I used to play out on the left wing.
I like it when you touch my thing.
I makes me hard and wet,
And I love you, like a loyal pet.

Ryan, aged 48 and a half.

It needs a little tidying but I like it.
 


Oh_aye

Well-known member
Jul 8, 2022
2,120
Phillip Larkin, eat your heart out......

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0019yy2

They **** you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were ****ed up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.


My favourite Larkin

I have started to say
“A quarter of a century”
Or “thirty years back”
About my own life.

It makes me breathless
It’s like falling and recovering
In huge gesturing loops
Through an empty sky.

All that’s left to happen
Is some deaths (my own included).
Their order, and their manner,
Remain to be learnt
 




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