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Nelson D Reyes

Phoenix Reversals

...World Cup 2022...

Phoenix Reversals
 
 
Eighty minutes in
Dominance wiped out
France’s samurai in the middle
Let loose two sword strikes
 
The coliseum of Rome
Came alive
Exploded
Gladiators again
See eye to eye
We want blood
 
Remarkable final of all time
Two great footballers
Pitted against each other
One emerged the greatest
Younger one looking ahead
 
Beautiful game of all time
Played as sports intended
No raised clenched fists
Of politics of any politics
This awe inspiring out and out
Pure naked hunger
For the World Cup crown
Squarely vied for on the pitch
 
Indeed a privilege to watch talismen
Messi and Mbappe friends and foes
One a ballerina milonguero
The other brash bold street fighter
Sworn to defeat enemies as
Partners in Paris football club
 
And the world watched screen glued
Glamour dazzles biggest show on earth
Staged from the lalaland glittering Qatar
World transfixed everything else is forgotten
Where rules were rewritten
Great legendary teams worldwide
Of the Hand of God game trashed
Messi’s fall first game set the tone
Aspiring ones emerged triumphant
 
A phantasmagorical world sports event
Transformed a country at once bewitched
And blessed with a third star on its crown
Power of the beautiful game rules again
A World Cup for the ages for generations
Gracias Merci Qatar for a spectacle well done
Every single goal a rising from the ashes
Reigniting outright from the foe the fire for fate reversal
 
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(c)ndr12.25.2022
Photo: FIFA World Cup 2022 Messi Mbappe

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