Just Walk !

I can't get this game out of my system? Another poem about cricket and this time as you'll see, honesty is always the best policy !

    Pastor Pete was fond of a treat

    when visiting his congregation,    

    a cup of tea with something sweet

   before each biblical recitation!

 

   Tommy O’Toole liked his beer cool

   along with a double chaser,

   prone at times to act the fool

  locally known as the village spacer!

 

  Surprisingly sharing a common theme

  both enjoyed playing cricket,

 opening batsmen on the same team

 fastidious when at the wicket!

 

Playing together for the last time

in a now notorious match,

Tommy nicked one very fine

and the keeper took a straightforward catch!

 

But before the mandatory appeal

he did not stand there and balk,

about turn, right wheel

then set off for the long walk!

 

The Pastor then suffered a similar fate

feathering a minute edge,

but chose to remain and remonstrate

 aware the ball had hit the wedge!

 

With both umpires rather uncertain

 he hung on like an overzealous actor,

who refuses to withdraw behind the curtain

as you may have seen on the X factor!

 

Thus he escaped due to a howler

and his foibles most underhand,

but this so angered the bowler

his next ball knocked Pastor Pete, into the promised land!

 

Now should you edge one through to the keeper

please don’t stand there and gawp,

as it could be you are facing the grim-reaper

so if I were you I’d just walk!

Reviews

[David Scott]

Not sure I enjoy the tone of this... but OK... it is an honest expression of your mindset.
I think here on the WC I like to play the Tee Ball game where everyone gets a hit and nobody keeps score.
IMO...
Maybe I took this wrong. If so, I extend my apologies. It did read well as a poem though. You gave it some cheeky humor as well.

[Tom]

Thanks David !

[OTownPete]

Reading this really makes me wish I knew something about cricket!!!!!!!!!!! Your friend in words, Pete

[Tom]

Don't worry about that Pete, you're in the team & glad you are as apart from me, it was looking like an all girls team !!

[SyberRose]

See you can write about cricket even in the off season...i love your passion for the game...
Nice flow and rhyme Tom...Brilliant...Rose:)

[Tom]

I know Rose, think I'm a junkie ! And thanks for visiting, you're in my team as well !

[Tom]

Cricket junkie that is !!

[SyberRose]

yes cricket junkie ha

[Frieda P]

Ha, I don't know if I should be laughing here, since Pete bit the dust but this was delightfully amusing. Another great read on cricket, who knew...enjoyed Tom!

[Tom]

Your in too Frieda, no doubts about it !

[Frieda P]

Only if I can be the village spacer...lol!

[Tom]

It takes a very clever special person to act the fool and make people laugh, but you knew that already Frieda P !!

[Frieda P]

I've found if you can laugh at yourself first, the rest of em might laugh along with you............!

[Tom]

My muse exactly Frieda !

[Yellow Butterfly]

I love how your passion for your beloved sport gives you such inspiration for awesom writes TOM..

Ouzthat... for a corker of a write...

YB

[Tom]

I'm loving it YB...you're in my team definitely !!

[Yellow Butterfly]

TEAM TOM........

YES CAPTAIN!

[MsJewel]

You are a wonderful storyteller - and I enjoy learning about cricket and the little bit of humor you add to your poetry. It's always a delight to read your words Tom.
:) Julie

[Tom]

Ah brilliant....another player for my new writers cafe cricket team, thanks Julie !

[MsJewel]

I'll play anytime, but I'm warning you - I throw like a girl... ...oh wait a minute...do you throw the ball in cricket or just kick it??? -- I know there must be a ball..Maybe I'll just watch :)

[Tom]

Throw... always go with your first instincts Julie ! No your're playing lady !!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

this is really good...and i imagine so hard to write so that it sounds this perfectly put together...a very fun ride...

jacob

[Dye]

This was such fun to read, I even Googled a bunch of the terms to gain better insight. So I feel like I know more about Cricket now. LOL


Always be forth coming.......just walk. Great advice.

[Tom]

Thank you Dye! At this rate I'll soon have my very own writers cafe cricket team, I'm really exciting at the prospect, of course I will be the skipper !!

[Dye]

I can see your plan now. LOL

[Tom]

You're in naturally we need that bit of je ne sais quoi and you've got loads of it !!

[Sheila Kline]

Jolly Ole' Chap Tom! I do so admire you for loving the sport of Cricket as much as you do, and that you are able to transform this great love to poetic form so that we may gain a few chuckles as we read of it! Poor Pastor Pete must still be wondering what happened.......lol
'Tis all such fun when you tell it as you do!! It is wonderful when one is able to take something that means so much to them and transform it into entertainment for another!! As far as understanding the game, I am getting there if be it very, very slowly.......lol
Rhyming is excellent as always!

[Tom]

Thank you Sheila once more, I appreciate your genuine effort to try and grasp the understandings of a game that has many intricate rules!

[Jack...]

Seems I am learning more about cricket than I ever thought I'd need to know...but you just never know. Even though some of the terminology is hard for me to understand, the meassage and the fun of your poem was not Tom. Very nicely penned and smiles all around...except Pastor Pete I suppose.

[Tom]

Thanks Jack, I'll make a cricketer of you yet ! lol..

[Aethereal]

Well another delightful cricket poem by Tom. Perhaps you should compile an anthology of the best cricket poems in the world for a book to be sold at cricket events. Also add some poems about those cute little black insect crickets who chirp all night long. If only tiny crickets could be trained to play cricket? How did this game get the name “cricket”?

[Tom]

Thank you Aethereal, I must look into your proposition !