Tony Beyer’s NZ cricket haiku

I wrote earlier on Cyril Childs’s cricket haiku. Two other contributors in A Tingling Catch who write haiku are André Surridge and Tony Beyer.

Tony has several haiku in A Tingling Catch, and he sent me some more to share with you.
Tony writes: ‘My classroom is right next to the main oval at NPBHS [New Plymouth Boys High School] and there have been quite a few home games this season. They also trigger off longer memories (and shadows) of the game -- there can be no other sounds on earth quite like those.’:

TONY BEYER

loud appeal

boys in the classroom

run to the window

*

swing and miss

someone shouts advice

from the boundary

*

no ball

the paceman

revises his run-up

*

stalled run-up

the batsman adjusts

his wrists

*

that great season

Crowe Greatbatch and us

in the back yard

*

dusk on the outfield

still talking

about that catch

*

beach innings

three driftwood stumps

and a dog at mid on

*

last over

long shadows

from the fielders’ feet

Poems © Tony Beyer

Thanks Tony

See also my related blog posts: 'Cyril Childs's NZ cricket haiku' (February 2011) and 'André Surridge's new cricket haiku' (October 2010).