POETRY
Noble job
"To Dr Seimon.......,
When we hear your name as 'seaman'
Our imagination is different.......
But I have no words........
To describe your noble job........
When I was just a small kid
You gave me a new life
By giving me a good sight.........
Your service done for patients
And commitment for blinds.........
I don't know how to describe......
To thanking you again and again
I know my life time is not.......
Enough for ever.........
Maithrika Dehideniya
Cricket
Cricket, cricket is a lovely game
Good old days, it was known as a gentlemen's game
Sometimes recognized as the willow game
Bats, wickets, bails and balls used in the game
Actions of fielding, bowling, batting made sideways
Players in the field display plenty of movements
Short-legs, square-legs, fine-legs and silly-points
Isn't it funny? the names given for field placements
The two batsmen at the centre, battle with balls
Being monitored by the two Head and Leg umpires
A measured track used between the two wickets
With two bails on them and upon a turf made sense
A red leather ball and two willow bats used in a match
A bowler given six deliveries at a batsman and kept a watch
Umpires in black trousers and white coats to go with
Players in full white have to adhere to a set of rules very much
Standard distance kept from the track to boundary lines
Batsmen run between wickets to score runs
Hit the balls to reach the boundary for sixes and fours
Given out when the ball is caught or hits the stumps
In England where cricket was introduced in bygone years
Exact date is not known but the first set of rules
Introduced in seventeen forty-four since
Popularized the game with lot of youth participations
Marylebone Cricket Club famous as MCC in England
Housed at Lords where the game of cricket was registered
Council known as ICC where cricket is governed
Maintained a set of rules that players adhered
The game is very popular among the young boys
Played at any venue and kept in mind the rules
No questions of leather balls and willow bats and wickets
Still played for the love of cricket with any thing at ease
Leading schools and the clubs play the game in style
Became popular as embraced by all walks of life
Cricket commentaries with commercials on air and telecasts live
Arranged tournaments with lots of enthusiasm among every one
For the game no discrimination of gender
Participation of girls in plenty no wonder
To the sport they have added splendor
Yet gone up to the national level with grandeur
Face lift given to cricket and played with dedication
Players wear all kinds of gear as protection
This was not the case in olden days yet no violation
Now some play cricket as their profession
Cricket, cricket what a lovely Commonwealth game
Legends being celebrated made fame by the game
Devoted entire lives for the betterment of the game
At any cost should prevail its virtue of the game
Kapila Mendis
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