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...

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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,...

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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...

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'Ping-Pong' is wrong
        'Peng' confided 
     If 'Ping' is lopsided
     then 'Pong' is misguided 
        'Prong' decided...

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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....

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He was birth to menace;
Now he plays table tennis;
...socially spaced-


9/14/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©...

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