Long Wimbledon Poems

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 one 
consonant or one vowel he wrote.
with an artist who...

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>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 tough.
Saying they aren’t paid enough.
For playing games with balls not...

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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 explode, did
With paralise, electric grid
The Gendarme closed major routes
While soldiers...

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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 of guys.

In honour of The Late Arthur L. Heron
Who would...

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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 have enough words of our own
In this wonderful language of...

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3/20/22


Use to have on a blindfold
Always chasing fool's gold
Problems came tenfold

Lost sight of goals
Continually losing control
Fell into a black hole

Despite the toll
Never sold my soul
Still got a heart of gold

A lot of lies being told
Yet...

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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 third from last to be chosen for The Team

"No, not...

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Two sets
  Apiece
To each player
And this is the
    Final set... 
What a contest! 
Both the players
Fighting to win
   The match
     Is equal
The scoreboard
  ...

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We had it all and it will never come back
Sporting heroes both white and black
A different time, a different age
Different class, when you turn back the page
Lets start with the death of one man
The dancer,...

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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 trees:

---

Gray!  Everything is gray!  Gray is the sun!
But...

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Gordon, or Gio, is a wheelchair tennis player, 
And comes from Helensburgh in Scotland, 
He won the very first Wimbledon this year, 
For the wheelchair men’s singles grandstand. 

Six weeks after leaving hospital with a...

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With a snakelike hiss, the tangerine train doors close
and the engine rock-rumbles forward 
clicking over each joined metal coupling.

Long gone are the pristine days of virginity 
and the impassioned rush of slick new parts.
The small...

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Limericks croises : Once a Rigolo Tennisman  
                          ...

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Lawn Tennis at Wimbledon 



I watched tennis this afternoon
was a great event held every year,
semi final at Wimbledon, an important game 
in the heat, perspiration fell like tears

Was a Serbian and an Argentinian
both a credit...

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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 bubble gum circles whilst swimming in the local pool
Playing tennis...

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Donald Trump’s on trial - the first of many.
It’s a cold feeling, being judged
- with your future held in the balance
(Ok, that sounded SO much like college life).

We all hope for greatness, I believe.
As kids,...

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sir james saville HRH andrew battenburg/windsor sir
Larry parnes sir cliff richard lord boothby ronnie kray reggie kray jeffery epstein gisellaine maxwell anthony
kidman kevin spacy peter sutcliffe sir bob hawke
louie mountbatten richard nixon billy graham henry...

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Wimbledon is tennis whites
And strawberries and cream.
Winning there has got to be
A tennis player’s dream.

Watching Roger Federer,
So cool and poised and Swiss,
I knew his lips would give
The champion’s cup its winning kiss.

Andy Murray played his...

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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 to reports.

Designed by Teddy Tingling,
A tennis pro and Brit,
The all-white...

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I've dreamed of traveling to equatorial Egypt
   To see the Pyramids of Giza and even the Sphinx
And then onto the jungles of darkest Africa
   To meet voodoo doctors, unafraid of their...

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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 end;
My favorite, sadly, lost.
The winner, though, acknowledged
What the competition cost.

When...

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I have an old photograph
It was taken at Wimbledon,
Long, long ago 
It was of dear sweet Yvonne
And she was smiling at me
From an old discoloured print
Yvonne, cute and naive
She had such a sweet face
I recalled...

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At Wimbledon, you must wear white
To play upon the courts
And that includes your sneakers, visors,
T-shirts, socks and shorts.

The colour police do not allow
Off-white, ecru or cream
And sneaker soles and laces
Should be white enough to gleam.

A...

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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 Warning,
Deluxe Wave,
Bare Babes,
Dank,
Wiley Dare Devil,
Brazen Bronze Brave,
Dozen Wants,
Bilked Wage,
Bank Wizard,
Duckets...

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Prince George is there at Wimbledon,
Between his folks, first row.
They’re sitting in the Royal Box
With hours left to go.

In suit and tie, though 8 years old,
He’s very well behaved,
Remaining quite expressionless
While both his parents waved.

I’m...

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