Mark Pirie's new cricket poem Norwood Room

Here's another new poem I wrote recently after visiting the Norwood Room at the Basin Reserve for the NZ Cricket Museum's Christmas party. It was inspiring to be in the room and be able to look closely at the pictures expertly hung on the wall.
The poem is again in the form of a French triolet with repeated verse lines.

MARK PIRIE

Norwood Room

In the Norwood Room, pictures hang;

  Great deeds of art captured.

Cricketers in their prime – well hung.

In the Norwood Room, pictures hang.

  Azhar’s ‘silky elegance’ captured;

Lara, Hadlee, Cairns, Sobers all hung…

In the Norwood Room, pictures hang.

  Great deeds of art captured.

Basin Reserve, Sunday 18 December 2011

Poem © Mark Pirie 2012

Thanks to Joseph Romanos for printing it in The Wellingtonian, 22 March 2012, to coincide with the Black Caps' Test against South Africa.