Tennis Poems

Watching Serena play tennis
Whilst sipping a pint of Guinness
I heard someone plead
Donald Trump should lead
His Fake News Parade in Venice...Read More

Hey! This one is my melodramatic mom’s!
One thing I have realised: No one else in the world can ever be more loving than one’s mom. 

I see five roundballers at the court.
I see her dropping dimes,
As she plays at interschool...Read More

Witch, warlock, goblin and vampire fine
Wearing one slipper and one tennis shoe
They all ran home at promptly half past nine.

Fine goblins, ghosts, and ebony cats too.
And a lively she devil newly born
Hid down at the corner at twenty-two

Barn owls wearing...Read More

sit here staring out of eyes
that i don't seem joined to
searching inside for the exit door
fingers move without invitation
screaming from this flesh and bone prison
playing tennis with echo words
drowning in my thoughts...Read More

My body is a liquid
that keeps your glass half full

I'm merely there to fill the gap
between episodes of a screenplayed life

the need for symmetry
is overdrawing a story
were us could be presumptive

like you said
those expectations were my mirroring
so your repulsion stepped...Read More

We used to go swimming with our parents and children at the Fitness Institute,
The facilities were enhanced, we had showers and a make-up room.

There was a swimming pool and a tennis court, 
After  your swim, you could sun yourself...Read More

If you should ever find your way down here,
The folk of Stop-A-While will welcome you,
With friendly smiles and well-intentioned words,
Provided you will be prepared to stay
Long enough for us to hear your tale.
No need to fret and worry about the...Read More

Tennis Menace
Beaten Venus
Surname...
Dennis








9/17/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2019...Read More

Love, I get love is more than a game the young play,
It is life one commits, not caged bird ‘shopped’ to mine
In the hope lives are saved that don’t sleep in harm’s way!
How can chemistry alter what man can’t refine?

Love...Read More

Flying foxes hang replete from the rain trees
dripping in the morning sun.
They have sucked the flesh
of mamey sapote,
of rambutan and mangosteen.
Their dog-like pelts are copper pendants
that dribble a dawn dew onto our heads.

Jia Liu has an Uncle
that is not related...Read More

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 how gently he goes.

He licks his chops whenever I eat,
Letting me know he’s there at...Read More

Adventures by Need

I go to see my son today, 
It is a good day. 
My heart is happy, truly. 
I wash my face, brush my teeth, 
and pick out a funny shirt. 
Kick butt boots, or fast tennis shoes?
Always the...Read More

Today’s walk started a little earlier than usual 
With the welcoming of gorgeous cottony clouds’ dancing splendor 
Their shining was charmed by sun’s golden-reddish glitter
Dazzled me showing their astonishing shapes and colors

Saw a big flock of turkeys appreciating silence of...Read More

Bay area's crown jewel, The Claremont,
Where age 24 Steve Jobs and I talked,
Well, him--as to the future--I was shocked,
The guy aimed high, humble, who want for naught.

An unscheduled stop by a young Prince Charles,
That shook the hands of this Hawaiian...Read More

He is a runner. I used to be too
Which is why I do not wear heels
Or even slippery sandals to school.
I am in tennis shoes but he is fast.

Only five-years-old and no doubt
an Olympic contender.
“Catch that kid!” I yell up...Read More

there's no need
it would be
love fifty
fifty

so
let's
change
up sports

she's a par
eight hole
one water
trap and

a sand
before
or after
the fifth

starting 
with wood 
progressing
to an iron but

knowing
the last is 
always the
putt

so now
down on
the green
i eye

the slope
of the shot
butt see a 
slight dip

and
in the
curvature
of the mound

i slice
to...Read More

This January, I was in the tenth grade,
when our Head informed
that we couldn't contribute to sports meet next year,
and we all did our best this year.

I volunteered for two,
signing up for badminton and long jump
then they asked me to have...Read More

Today I played tennis
It’s such a stressful term
I can’t seem to get a ball
Or even hit one too 
Feel like it’s a snitch 
In Quidditch of Harry Potter
Very, very dizzy
From all the work I’ve done
...Read More

^^^^^^^^Email Insanity^^^^^^^^

We are ecstatic over baseball, basketball, soccer, tennis 
and football!
We relish snowflakes and the warmth of the sun.
And NASCAR, races? Why, we would not miss one!

But a phone call to one another simply cannot be placed.
My parents would call this...Read More

I have the greatest of the great ideas!” My husband said. 
“Best one I have ever had!” He uses this line weekly 
Since he is in sales, and we have been married a long time 
I did not drop my...Read More

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 jinx

O, in my dreams, I've...Read More

A young tennis brat from Indiana
Dressed in a psychedelic bandana
   When he put it on
   It glowed bright neon
Lit up the court from here to Montana


          ...Read More

When every day is a redo of yesterday
When every hour is the same as the hour before
And the day before and the days of the weeks before

Enthusiasm dissipates rapidly and completely
Excitement dies
Discouragement sets in

So….

Shake out your dancing shoes.
Grab your tennis...Read More

Just do it like Serena 
(Verse 1)
Win it 
Own it
It's yours
you will get the perfect score
Focus , perfect your craft 
you will enjoy the aftermath
you get in the match 
you give it your all
you may stumble
be sure not to fall...Read More

Wimbledon is on, 
you know that sport no one plays 351 days a year 
nor follows 50 weeks a year, 
and when any other sport or event happens it just goes unnoticed, 
TENNIS,
yes the tennis season is here

most noticeably tennis...Read More