New Balls

Lately,
I've felt the fizz
go out of my game.
Been feeling as flat
as last night's champagne.

It's at times like these we reaches
for the fuzzy yellow peaches.

New balls mean a new start.
I wasn't exactly "smashing it"
with the last lot.

Fresh out of the tube.
With a musical bounce
and a twang of racket strings,
summer is announced.

The temporal globes,
the spinning spheres,
tantalisingly tossed in the air;
across the net,
my opponent,
his long hair gripped with fear...

then
THWOCK!
An ace!
I think
the phrase is
IN YOUR FACE!

Suddenly
I've got a new zeal,
a new zest.

It's time to put my new balls to the test!

B.P.R. 06/07/2017

The magnificent Carole Lombard relaxing with a fag at change of ends.