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.
'Ping-Pong' is wrong
'Peng' confided
If 'Ping' is lopsided
then 'Pong' is misguided
'Prong' decided
He was birth to menace;
Now he plays table tennis;
...socially spaced-
9/14/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©
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
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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