Time Tennis Poems

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

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One player bounced the ball 8 times
Before he hit each serve
And many grunt on every shot
Which gets on my last nerve.

My favorite has his own...

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I arrived a moment too soon
The music had not began 
drenched from a mild monsoon
Prepared to lend a hand

I chose red instead of blue
And red...

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Lines that are precise -
	A court where someone loses.
	Not everyone can do this;
	it takes time and work.
	To be the best you can be
	Without dwelling excuses.
	Put...

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To tennis
What a cracking sport
To play, to lose all worldly cares.

Returning
To the tennis court –
That small rectangle, out of time;

Win or lose
It doesn’t matter,
I’ll keep...

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There was a time when tennis players
Had to dress in white.
Appearing on the court in colors
Wouldn’t have been right.

But rules have changed and now we...

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Help me
He won't wake up these weekends
I came back home
I help him get unsick
Mom runs her usual parade
Dad just watches TV and escapes
He wants to...

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Insignificant and gazed
at through this narrow
Iris. 

We retreat to no
Avail. Until the End of Time. 

White horse, deliver me 
into the Gates of 
Darkness. 

As...

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PINK TENNIS SHOES

I mother always pride galore
 until the words from daughter abhor.

Her gentle heart and loving embrace
smashing to pieces. She fell from grace.

Her untied...

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