Almanac Poetry – Cricket doggerel: Hill; Midwinter

HILL BY MOUTH

Henry Hill

Is up one still

Up with Jack

And up with Jill

Nobody gives

A hill of beans

For this hill

Of hilly has-beens

But Clem Hill

Should have had a hill

Named after him

Called Clem Hill Hill

For a man called Hill

He made a mountain of runs

Including 99, 98, 97…

He was heading to one!

 

MIDWINTER’S MID-SUMMER BLUES

Billy Midwinter

Debuted in the Autumn

Changed horses midsummer

He followed the sun

Got kidnapped by Grace

Frizzy Bush and The Coroner

Taken to Surrey

Dual citizen foreigner

He sailed back and forth

Australia, England, Australia

Franchise player, mercenary?

Or the system’s failure?

His initials were WE

So he played for both sides

But he knew where his heart lay

When it was time to die.

 

(both Peter Warrington, 2014-15)


About Peter Warrington

Richmond fan; Kim Hughes tragic; geographer; kids' book author; Evertonian; Manikato; Harold Park trots 1980; father of two; cat lover, dancer with dogs; wannabe PJ HArvey backing vocalist; delusional...

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