Best Table Tennis Poems
Most balls people pitch, roll, or fling.
They kick them or strike them with zing.
But for lazy old me
I like tirelessly. . .
to stand, flick my wrist and go “ping!”
For Joseph Soper's the Sports Shorts Poetry Contest
I love playing table tennis, Glen and I arranged a match,
We decided to get some balls, so he ordered a batch.
I open a box and in it, one ball was a funny smoky blue,
All the others were white, oh; I forgot to tell you, this story is true.
The ball was heavier than the others so I thought open it and have a look,
I rested it on my mothers “don’t touch or your ass is grass” recipe book.
Under a shady tree I gave the ball a whack and it did break
The ground under our feet shook like as if it were an earth quake
Glen ( my imaginary friend) said “this must be a magical ball,”
“What have you done Sidney Hall?”
I ran in the house after that experience to changed my pants
Came back shaking to take a glance
There in the ball,
In the ball,
What looked like a small house, a beautiful garden and in the corner something under a tree,
So I took my magnifying glass and peered in, under the tree, it’s……….me.
The hair raised on the back of my neck,
I slowly looked up to check.
Lucky I had brown trousers, my knees shook at the bends,
For looking down at me was a gigantic eye full magnifying lens.
And behind it was me doing the same,
And behind again and again and again.
We were doing the same thing and were identical, we all could not comprehend
The detail was amazing even down to Glen our imaginary friend.
So if you see a smoky blues table tennis ball
Don’t shake it for inside could be Glen and Sidney Hall.
*Fantasy Contest*
VOLLEY WORLDS LIKE TABLE TENNIS
Table tennis
Isn’t the menace
Didn’t you mention?
Hearts full of toil
Bleeding tendencies of old
Rancid particles
Already hidden astronomical
What is my purpose?
How can I imagine
When I got my mindful
Wonders beyond fathom
Come let’s embrace the world
Volley the ball?
9/11/18
Written by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2018
'Ping-Pong' is wrong
'Peng' confided
If 'Ping' is lopsided
then 'Pong' is misguided
'Prong' decided
She ping
She pong
Digging both sides
With concentration
With hand slamming
Calculated precision
Eyes rolling pinning
The striking win
Over this green
Rectangular board.
He was birth to menace;
Now he plays table tennis;
...socially spaced-
9/14/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©