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Best Tennis Ball Poems

Below are the all-time best Tennis Ball poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of tennis ball poems written by PoetrySoup members


Inside of a Table Tennis Ball
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...

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Categories: tennis ball, fantasy, funnyme,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Backhand
"Backhand"



You have turned me
inside out, cut open
like a tennis ball
I used to beat backhand
along with the racket
hard against the garage wall

To make sense of it...

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Categories: tennis ball, child abuse, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Hate Animal Dumpers
Our dog is relaxing for the first time in almost eighteen hours.
The interloper is finally gone.
She is so relieved; I have never heard her sigh...

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Categories: tennis ball, pets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member True Love
He stares at me with big brown eyes,
Causing me to think of stars in the skies.
He touches my hand with a cold nose,
Reminding me of...

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Categories: tennis ball, dog, friend, friendship, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
For Althea Gibson
The tennis ball 
Whacked over the net 
Is whacked back again 
Sometimes. 
It is a tough leather that ball. 
But this respiratory thing 
That sucks...

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Categories: tennis ball, people,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Have a Ball
Throw it, roll it,
  Bounce it, pass it
Dribble it, bobble it
  Kick it, toss it, miss it

Pitch it, hurl it
  Heave it,...

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Categories: tennis ball, baseball, basketball, football, fun,
Form: Light Verse
Real Friends
They are like night and day
Always there,
Even when not seen, I know they’ll be here
Treat me like a brother, oh how much they care
How many...

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Categories: tennis ball, appreciation, blessing, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Why I Dont Play Tennis
>Why I don’t I play tennis.

Tennis, want to know why don’t I play?
Because I cannot hit those balls back.
Those that fly fast down my way.

I...

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Categories: tennis ball, child abuse, games, happy,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Women Bartender Parties
Women Bartender Parties 

Their eyes watched 
the bartender,
like a tennis ball, 
volleying to each side, 
bouncing, soft like 
from side to side 
of the bar,...

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Categories: tennis ball, adventure, beauty, desire, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
40-Love
words thrown in the wind

love is not a tennis ball

she's a leaf blower...

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Categories: tennis ball, muse,
Form: Haiku
Daily Bread
Just like the car cannot do without it,
So also I yearn for it with great desire,
Lack of it send cold shivers down my spine,
Imagine walking...

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Categories: tennis ball, anxiety, fear,
Form: Free verse
Juno, the Rescue Dog
An old tennis ball
near your resting head
waits patiently for a sign, biding its time.

Sunday’s sleek playground rocket
is Monday's slumbering sentry
dog-tired from yesterday’s triumphs.

Rescue dogs rummaged
Trade...

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Categories: tennis ball, pets
Form: Free verse
What Is a Mother?
Mothers stay up late when
Their kids can’t sleep..
A mother’s affection
Will always run deep.
 
A mother silently watches
Her child asleep in their bed.
She looks back on...

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Categories: tennis ball, childhood, family, mother, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Our Furry Daughter Reva
Our four-legged furry daughter Reva bid us a farewell 
She went on her new journey wagging her tail
God came to take her during her sleep
Took...

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Categories: tennis ball, animal, dog, love,
Form: Ode
Flock of Golfing Geese Haiku
Flock of Golfing Geese Haiku

I have heard noise
Of traffic that annoys
Was it meant to be?

Peace should be instead
As in many poems I read
Just like yours...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tennis ball, hilarious, humorous,
Form: Haiku

Book: Shattered Sighs