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Watch our richest game
Turning quickly, turning slow
We play to be – not win
Adam, Mal
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001032144427
Warm Up
It doesn't bode well:
England won the friendly but
Japan scored the goals
Arksey, Neil
http://www.neilarksey.com
Expectant summer
Hopes raised beyond the sky
Why do we not learn?
Baddiel, Ivor
http://www.voiceofsport.com/article.php?AId=44
1966
the first time I tasted
my heart in my mouth.
Beauchamp, Michael
Seven to nothing / terrified goalie flies home / Dear Leader’s not pleased….
Bowman, Michael
http://www.facebook.com/proudlearnercrew
Breen, Jim
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html
football night
the leather couch
gets kicked
voetbalavond
de leren bank
krijgt een schop
Brouwer, Bouwe
http://www.deoudezeeman.web-log.nl
it
is
now
Buckingham, Helen
http://www.waterloopresshove.co.uk/pages/authors/helen-buckingham.php
just a friendly--
maybe I'll clean out the fridge
Early goal!
The cat can't get out of the cat flap
fast enough.
louder still
the explanations of
the offside rule
The Vuvuzela
this plastic flower contains
some angry Bee flats
Slovenian shirts
have a mountain ranged etched
lemon on green
Strange as it may seem / the all-whites of New Zealand / are not negative
A Rainbow Nation
Arcs across the shanty towns
Bulldozed for football
1992,
Bloody massacres occur:
Boipatong Township.
The Custodian!
Hail Itumelong Khune:
Squatter camp hero.
Butler, Stuart
http://www.footballpoets.org/p.asp?Id=26731
ANTICIPATING
ball floats and rotates
players anticipating
with head, chest and feet
MAJESTIC
mown soccer playfield
this majestic green carpet
players will be kings
HOPE
soccer arena
green is the colour of hope
part of players' dream
MOTION
soccer emotion
players like gladiators
arena on fire
BRILLIANCE
the ball draws a line
player's brilliance through his feet
golden shoes apply
1966
a floodlight in the darkness
of skewed horizons
Calway, Gareth
http://www.garethcalway.co.uk
England 1 USA !
Brief euphoria
a butter-fingered bodging
some things never change.
Colossal sorrow
a conspicuous absence
Shankley's words ring false.
Germany 4 Australia 0
On the march once more/ the slick, sickening/ ultimate football machine.
England 0 Algeria 0
Unhappy birthday
Fabio no longer fab
the airport beckons
Greece 0 Argentina 2
Cheeseman, Marvin
http://marvincheeseman.com/
Nessun Dorma
Italia 90 song
Rest well Siphiwo
Colt, Nicholas
World Champion?
Over coffee the glow
of the sun.
Conrad, Beate
http://www.haikuglobus.org
barefoot forward
or designer-shod star
they all kick
Corbelle, Armando
http://haikubycatbird.blogspot.com/
http://nakedhaiku.blogspot.com/
Soccer city--
a dutch two goaler
sinks the Danes
Lionel Messi
making coach Maradona
look like a genius
Denaro, Dominick
http://www.facebook.com/caveboy65
National Manschaft
the team of my heritage
I love when they win.
Brazilian football
Men with one name playing
World’s most gorgeous game
We say U-S-A
then we root and we toot for
the red white and blue
Denaro, Gretchen
http://gretchenaro.com/blog/
Once heroes
Flags hanging from windows
Fluttering no more
Dirs, Ben
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bendirs/
flag stripes -
each cheek
sun kissed
Jairzen-de-Peleo
that youth club match
forty years ago
Duff, Graham
Unused substitutes
Keeping the bench nice and warm:
Great place to watch from
Ellis, Huw
http://www.youtube.com/user/BBC4Divs
cool beer and warm nights
excited koreans jawflapping
the city waits to wake
Fieler Jr, Steven Douglas (South Korea)
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=500737295
Elfmeter
As England falter
Old rivals show how it's done
Typical Germans
England 1 USA 1
Anthem
Trepidation
Dream
Ninetieth minute
Crouch volley wins the trophy!
Well, it's good to dream
Garratt, Paul
http://brownroughbook.blogspot.com/
Jabulani ball
To celebrate world soccer:
South African cool.
Gaudry, Joanna
http://joannagaudry.wordpress.com/
Ganar o perder.
El último penalty.
Tiembla el ojo.
Gonz, Pablo
“Official partners”.
A phrase to keep you seated.
When does the match start?
Hangdog Haiku
http://hangdoghaiku.com/
half time
my bruised shin darker
than the clouds
Harpeng, Jeffrey
Africa teeming
For teams to pitch themselves on
The pitch for football.
I refuse summer
Work for the World Cup season,
Employed in cheering.
Only seven teams/Have won, but may glory come/For those who are eighth!
America calls/It soccer and wants more goals./Give green, not red cards.
plan b
vuvuzuela
marmite of the world cup
winter sun
orange giraffes feeding
above stadium canopy
Saint George
Swiss in reverse
Football for cuckoos
Group G tackle
Ronaldo’s bloodied sock
Gods wine
June downpour
Korean keeper
fumbles bar of soap
Horn, Ian
http://www.myspace.com/ianhorn
http://www.colpittspoetry.co.uk
http://www.mudfog.co.uk
Drunken hooligans
Beer companies advertise
Bloodshed and mayhem
Horton, Chuck
Dondequiera va
la pelota, el mundo
la observará
Os nobres fihos
das Amazonas querem
só a victoria
Main fuel used at games / a sponsor gladly consumed / with famous Dutch name
AMBITION
Probably I am / too old to participate /in next World Cup games
Iberian voices / will try to prolong their stay / in the games today
Countries united
Under one eternal sun
Narrowed down to one
A missed penalty
Plays on the minds of thousands
Please please no shootout
Goals I remember
Missed chances long forgotten
This time is our time
Lace up, our heroes/Young and old the time is now/”All the world’s a stage”
Jones, Lewis
Thirty-two nations
Ablaze; the world awaits the
Conquering heroes
Juneau, Jennifer
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1394135955
two flags
at the pizzeria–
world cup
the way
the ball bounces
U! S! A!
parking attendants
surrounding the TV –
every four years
Kenney, William
corner kick -
my imagination
up in the air
in black Africa
colourful football
is dancing
López, Armando Castellanos
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=752549392
It is summer here,
winter in South Africa;
the world is a ball.
Loxley, Liz
http://www.academi.org/list-of-writers/i/131002/
Nations divisions
Rainbow anticipation
Mankind combined
McLaughlin, Jane
a sudden shout
hangs hollow
in icy silence
studs click on concrete
shed wedges
of mud
Massey, Michael
Anticipation
Planetary breath holding
Now, let’s kick a ball
Media frenzy
Tv crews from round the world
Junket journalists
Hope, expectation
Failure and disappointment
Recrimination
Red cross
On white sheet
England expects
Multicultural
South African kickabout.
Small golden trophy
Kick
Score
Win
Cheer
Understanding wife
And a supply of cold beer
Heaven here on Earth
Nationalist pride,
Expectation exceeds hope.
Hubris round corner?
Mr Capello
Keeps his men tight under wraps.
Writing excuses?
goal!
the radio, too, hoisted
in celebration
Mayr, Diane
http://www.dianemayr.com
http://www.randomnoodling.com
Playing football,
above the stadium
a blue dove
Match of football-
just now the sun hides himself
behind a rain cloud
Beeing faught a new victory,
our football players
ignore the rain
V from Victory!
on the sportsground
lots of laurel leaves
Time out-
on the one hand bitter tears
on the other hand smiles
Neither vanquisheds
either vanquishers...
only football players
Goooooooal !
A wandering butterfly
coming in the gate
Vuvuzela Buzz
Traditional Dress Hand-Clap
Ruptured Plastic Throat
High Expectations
Bitter Realization
Kicking and Rushing
street soccer--
a whistling spectator
interrupts the game
Mutua, Caleb (Kenya)
http://www.caleb-haiku-collection.blogspot.com
One Nil
You pull a Cruyff turn
Score and embrace the winger
I'm left standing still
Nash, Andrew
Early morning,
Silence of bogs awakes
From shouts of frogs
Nov, Gennady
Catalans like me
can root for La Furia
now that Franco's gone.
Oliu, Brian
http://www.brianoliu.com
We are not in it
Not since 1998
Scotland fan hurting
Countries united
2010 FIFA world cup
Sporting spectacle
Fantasy football
Choose 10 wags then get Messi
Every hole a goal
Ord, David
Shot on goal:
Grandpa adjusts his Yankee cap
To block the sun
a strong Germany
defeats Australia
scoring two goals in each half
Payne, Nan Bagwell
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Green grass --
In a colourful ball
the world's wishes
Piranio, Maria Rosa (Italy)
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=592058592
Spain is in trouble
too many injured players
can they still succeed?
Soccer or football?
Whatever you call it now
It is the world's Sport!
Priest, Neal
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=668674245
I hear anthems:
two teams are ready;
whistle blows.
Italia '90
Ref deals yellow card
Gazza weeps real lions tears
Turin cloud no fake
2010
World Cup Africa
England's big game safari
or Heart of Darkness?
Singing A Capello
Ei aye adio
steely nerved Fabio
sharpening his squad
Blame it on Rio
England's Archduke has fallen
on the eve of war
Hector
Copa Mundial
El Peru no estara
ya fue Chumpitaz
Scott, Michael
http://www.cabracancha.blogspot.com
...SENSATION
I heard roar of waves.
I smelled sweat rain on green grass.
a game of senses.
Senshi, Kodachi Ken
Triangles of men
open lanes where there were none,
running through my dreams
This haiku is inspired by my own years as a football (soccer) player. Even when I was sleeping, my
mind would replay games and see open lanes.
Shovan, Laura
http://authoramok.blogspot.com
favourites England:
America saved thanks to
Green's slippery hands
Simmons, Keith
Haiku exhausted
Summer Two Thousand And Two.
Any excuse though.
Smith, Mike
http://www.facebook.com/tyrannosaurus.amazing
Football Fiesta
Fans cheer all world cup countries
Goals scored boost team spirit
Smith, Theresa
http://sawn.co.za
My floral Poppy
Didn't know who Gazza was
This year she better!
Smyth, Rob
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/robsmyth
sitting entranced
ball in the air
one kick its a goal
Tarantello, Natalie
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=627686298
Africa awaits
what can fire and move us all?
only a football
vuvuzela haiku
vuvuzelas blare
Tshabalala la la
as Bafana score
Comienzo Mundial
Equipos, GOL, Hinchadas
Y el Mundial termina
Liviano Balon
El Mundo te mirara
Lo haras Gritar
Verde espera,
Para mojar remeras,
Sudor, lagrimas.
Venancio, Fernando
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1247571440
inflated hopes
higher than the clouds
what a kick
La luna mágica
ilumina el fútbol:
Johannesburgo.
Alma mundial
con colores en Sudáfrica
es un arco iris.
Ilusión de color,
el fútból en Sudáfrica:
nace la pasión.
Zarzuelo, Ana
http://revistadigitalpoeymas.blogspot.com/