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Best Wimbledon Poems

Below are the all-time best Wimbledon poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of wimbledon poems written by PoetrySoup members


Wimbledon
Strawberries and cream
Tennis stars chase cherished dream
Audience applauds....

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Categories: wimbledon, sports
Form: Haiku



Robinsons Wimbledon Weekend
Two decades ago this story began
Founded by one of the Robinson Clan.
The weekend is always the second in July
Its the gathering of a unique group...

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Categories: wimbledon, friendship, fun, golf, happy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Limericks Croises: Once a Rigolo Tennisman Won Wimbledon
Limericks croises : Once a Rigolo Tennisman  
                ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wimbledon, humor, irony,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Just Within Reach
just within reach?

things!
lots of things!

stuff one could collect,
especially graphic novels
with a writer that made you wish
you had a photographic memory
so you would never forget even...

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Categories: wimbledon, introspection,
Form: I do not know?
Playing Games With Tennis Balls
>Playing games with tennis balls?

Men, playing games with tennis balls!
Earn far too much dough.
In the game of tennis you know.
Some male players are now acting...

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Categories: wimbledon, cool, encouraging, games, gender,
Form: I do not know?



Tennis Undies
Gussie Moran, a tennis star,
Created quite a stir
When she wore lace-trimmed underwear,
Created just for her.

In 1949 this was,
On Wimbledon’s staid courts;
The British folk were scandalized,
According...

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Categories: wimbledon, people, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Junior School
Junior school

Years gone by and we are all still fools 
For the silly things we laughed at school
Farting and burping and breaking the rules
Making large...

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Categories: wimbledon, middle school,
Form: I do not know?
French Invasion: Whine and Cheese
Since the bloody Battle of Hastings
When 'Arold got killed by French Bill
We've seen an endless invasion of French
And I've just about had my fill

Don't we...

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Categories: wimbledon, french, language,
Form: Rhyme
Middle Aged Tennis Lesson
Thirty years since Mrs Meckin 

Said "Sian, who are y' markin'?"

on the hockey field


Wind chillin'

Legs freezin'

Knuckles reddenin'

Clutchin' the rubber handle of my Mum's
old hockey stick



Always...

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Categories: wimbledon, age, anxiety, body, life,
Form: I do not know?
Sportsmanship
Two tennis pros at Wimbledon,
Competing stroke for stroke,
Played six hours plus and both
Were going, as they say, for broke.

Of course, at last it had to...

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Categories: wimbledon, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Why God Select You
Arthur Ashe-

A Wimbledon legend he,

Took him AIDS as mourning eyes like a Sea,

"Why God selected you for AIDS"? wrote one Ashe,

"When millions playing tennis,became champion...

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Categories: wimbledon, career, memory, nature, pain,
Form: Light Verse
3 Letters
Wimpy Butt Dimples,
Wimbledon Bimbos,
Damp Blimp Dingo,
Wicked Wick Dip,
Dick Whipped,
Dim Brick Women,
Demon Brine Bathing,
Whimsy Wine Breathing,
Debatable Win,
Beatable Defeat,
Weak Bees,
Wax Beak,
Deem Weekend Bleak,
Dizzy Bard Waning,
Dumb Bar Baron,
Doomsday...

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Categories: wimbledon, assonance, fun, imagery,
Form: I do not know?
Serena
Serendipity, sun do smiles
European titles in mind
Royally, I was at Garros 
England, Wimbledon, my crowns
Nigh, the glory from Aussies
Arthur Ashe, the home in honour 

When...

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Categories: wimbledon, eulogy,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Stepping Through Time
As time and space dimensions jelly-fish…
Quiet falls the cement-turf of lock-box seas;
Milky Way kisses answer my wish -
She nestles ‘neath an orchard cloak of apple...

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Categories: wimbledon, fate, lost love,
Form: Quatrain
Good News
Good Evening, the BBC presents
The highlights from the days events

I pass you now to Sally Hughes
Who brings you all the evening news

Today in Paris, bomb...

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© John Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wimbledon, morning,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs