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proposition
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beach Happiness
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tennis, adventure, age,
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Keep Extra Clothes At Work
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Caren Krutsinger
| Free verse |
tennis, introspection,
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I Hate Animal Dumpers
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Caren Krutsinger
| Free verse |
tennis, pets,
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On the Beach
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Josephine Brennand
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tennis, write, writing,
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The Stench
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Christine Phillips
| Narrative |
tennis, america, courage, destiny, encouraging,
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Different Ball Same Rules
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Christine Phillips
| Narrative |
tennis, appreciation, basketball, blessing, celebration,
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Try Not To Look
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Caren Krutsinger
| Free verse |
tennis, fear,
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Dansette
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Owen Yeates
| Rhyme |
tennis, memory,
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VOLLEY WORLDS LIKE TABLE TENNIS
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James Edward Lee Sr.
| Free verse |
tennis, analogy, metaphor, words,
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Being Her Shoes
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Caren Krutsinger
| Personification |
tennis, humor,
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Eternal Quest
by Gershon Wolf
Ping pong match
Tennis game
Eternal quest
For temporal fame
Back and forth
Balls, then eyes
Mesmerized
By trophy's prize
In...
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Categories:
tennis, sports, success,
Blazing Hot
by ilene bauer
My friends are at the tennis match
But I am here at home
And not because it’s comfortable
For me to write my poem.
The weather forecast for today
Is...
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Categories:
tennis, weather,
But She Was My Friend
by Caren Krutsinger
She was a friend or so I thought, thinking we were quite similar.
Then I discovered she could not keep a confidence, and she regularly fabricated.
Even...
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Categories:
tennis, betrayal, goodbye,
SYMPOSIA
by Caren Krutsinger
Imagine a brilliantly intensely inner-connected symposia
Of beliefs that humans with nature and other species can be one,
Envision flying people taught by robins and wrens, for...
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tennis, animal, appreciation, leadership, nature,
Tennis anyone
by David Willey
Starting with the toss up
I’ve made an unforced error
I’ve only gone and followed through
Squeezed the jissom out the old fella
New balls (and pants) please –...
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Categories:
tennis, humorous, rude, sexy, silly,
Memory is notoriously short
by Gershon Wolf
When it comes to sport
Memory is notoriously short
Tennis great Jimmy Connors was 'the brat' when teen-aged
By his late thirties, his star ascended, he was all...
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Categories:
tennis, memory, sports, tiger,
The Chosen One
by Caren Krutsinger
I was thrilled when my boss signed me up for a team building workshop.
Only one teacher per school gets to attend, and it will be...
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Categories:
tennis, life,
All Hands
by Rico Leffanta
A seaman called, "Octopus" Dennis
Was known to the girls as a menace
A sign from Above
Predicted "True Love"
"But you gotta go out and play...
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tennis, culture, feelings, love, lust,
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To School
by Casarah Nance
A funny thing happened on the way to school,
I swear I saw an alligator in Ms. Mary's pool.
I kept on walking but it looked at...
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tennis, childhood, fun, funny, school,
I Grew Up In Bath
by Nick Trim
I grew up in Bath in the nineteen nineties,
when shorts were short and we wore tighty whities.
When Bath were the champions of English Rugby,
we don't...
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Categories:
tennis, nostalgia,
Stan Keefeat
by PAT Adams
Stan Keefeet sure loved his old tennis shoes
They did not love him, was not any news
When kicked off
Everyone coughed
With lots of crying and cussing and...
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Categories:
tennis, character, humorous, imagery,
Gimme a Break
by ilene bauer
You can break a promise, break a toy,
Break a rack in pool;
Break a tennis player’s serve
And even break a rule.
Break a horse to saddle up;
Take...
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Categories:
tennis, word play,
Sportsmanship
by ilene bauer
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:
tennis, emotions,
Federer
by ilene bauer
At Wimbledon, all dressed in white,
Is Federer, still at the height
Of tennis genius, a delight
To watch when he's in action.
Against opponents he will fight,
Displaying his...
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Categories:
tennis, star,
Day Dreaming
by Deric Barry
The time spent thinking up these rhymes,
could be put to better use.
I could learn a language, or DIY the house.
Maybe learn to fly a plane,...
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Categories:
tennis, dream, fun,
Ride
by Christopher Flaherty
There are many thing's I would like to say to you
But
Words can only do harm
When your world resides in the palm of your hand
And the...
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Categories:
tennis, fear,
Too Focused on Health
by Brian Johnston
Retirement comes, I'm at loose ends,
But blessed to have some loyal friends
From work, from church, from family,
And tennis, gym less formally,
A men's group too for...
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Categories:
tennis, health, life,
City Walk
by Stephe Watson
City Walk (or Lola)
A city walk.
Springtime and a scarf bundled about the Adam’s apple.
A wedge of lemon. That sucked.
A triangle of mandarin.
Or two. Now...
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Categories:
tennis, dog, philosophy,
Once
by ilene bauer
Once there was a tennis player*
From a town in Spain.
Ever since he started winning,
Clay was his domain.
As he rose up through the ranks
(He's number 1...
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Categories:
tennis, spanish,
One Liners Encore
by Jack Ellison
A woman says to her dentist, “Don't know what's worse
Having a tooth pulled or having a baby”
Dentist says, “Must adjust the chair to make us...
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Categories:
tennis, fun,