Pickleball in a Nutshell
A series of musings, in haiku form, on the popular racquet sport that's rapidly supplanting tennis in suburbia.
Pickleball is fun.
It is a lot like tennis,
but with smaller balls.
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Yellow, green, and white,
wiffle balls, essentially,
lots of holes in them.
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Instead of racquets,
They use paddles - kind of like
opaque racquetball.
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Serves are underhand,
the scoring doesn’t make sense,
and it’s rough on knees.
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As for volleying,
keep your feet behind the line
or you’ll lose the point.
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There he goes again,
stepping over the serve line,
ball still in the air.
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You should know by now:
Pickleball is confusing.
Why's it so unclear?
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Who serves when, from where?
I can't keep up anymore.
Just hit the damn ball!
About the Creator
Kevin Gilmore
Lifelong Texan - no, not that kind. Writer of poetry and flash fiction since 1982. Mostly drivel. And a few haikus, like this one, only better. You judge for yourself.
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