Nadal loast
Is he toast ?
-- Jackson vile
There was a man from Spain
Whose topspin was a huge pain
Especially for the Master
Who cried.
There was a man from Belgrade
Who ate topspin for breakfast
He beat Nadal
Five times in all.
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Guys, please tell me how i am doing, its tough work but very satisfying.
LOOOL! Don't be modest Sent, this is good stuff.Thanks to the man from Belgrade
Rafa is toast, with marmalade.
(I know i suck at this, but at least i suck big time)
Well, Nadal Decline Poetry does serve a rather niche audience (even more niche than regular poetry), but it certainly is an august crowd of tennis forum miscreants (myself included) and Swiss and Serbian entourages, so why not? I feel the next year or two will provide ample fodder on this topic, and your lovely comments have inspired. So I have tendered my resignation and penned another ode to one of the sport's most humble champions...Wow! You could give up your day job!
Colin may do to Joel
What Noel did to Rafael.
Great work, Colin ! You are writing poetry "from another planet" as Robbie Koenig would say.
Since when would a "young Serb" pull up a Smokey Robinson "tears of a clown" reference? Admit it, Pope: "Colin" is just your latest "nom de plume"! Great work, no matter what name you pen it under!
Visions of Pam Shriver
Cackling voices surround me
Shrill sexual deviant
Tall aching legs
Giraffe cottage cheese hips
Sway under the sun
Brillo padded silky hair
Up here on my pillow
Perhaps down there
Loving Pam tonight
Love her style
Epic beauty
Master best class Lady GOAT of doubles
Rotting golden gonads
Dry up with classful age
But Love lasts forever
Here's a parody of Chopin's "The Iceman":
"The Rafabull."
They tell us he was the Rafabull.
Rafa.
Bull.
Fiery as Rafa. Fiery as bull. Warrior as Rafabull.
They tell us he was the Rafabull.
Yet what is Rafabull?
The man across the pasture?
Or the compression shorts in your buttocks?
Rafabull.
After all, we're all only Mammals.
Mam.
Mals.
Rafa.
Bull.
Watch that udder drip, drip.
Drip.
Drip.
Down the bucket's hips.
They tell us he was the Rafabull.
They tell us he was the Rafabull.
Pick.
Pick away.
*No Rafa offense intended, I actually like the guy *
Are you insulting yourself, or is this some new level of humility as yet attained by only a few masters.No I just think most Talk Tennis enthusiasts are anticipating the 'Dances with the Eagle: Still Loving Roger" thread I'm working on.
Its going to be Chopin level material.
The sexual references seem a mite forced, but "Giraffe cottage cheese hips/Sway under the sun" is sheer genius. (I'm not sure "Brillo padded" and "silky" can both describe the same head of hair, though...)Visions of Pam Shriver
Cackling voices surround me
Shrill sexual deviant
Tall aching legs
Giraffe cottage cheese hips
Sway under the sun
Brillo padded silky hair
Up here on my pillow
Perhaps down there
Loving Pam tonight
Love her style
Epic beauty
Master best class Lady GOAT of doubles
Rotting golden gonads
Dry up with classful age
But Love lasts forever
Excellent job, Tom.Silence fills the final Sunday night
All save a few will have taken flight
The Fortnight's fans dispersed again
Some with joy but most in chagrin
They came in throngs with hope of glory
To watch each star play out his story
Once-hot Supernovas crash to the ground
Mute disbelief their partners in sound
Long Summer eves bursting with great play
The finest of skills on full display
Balls struck with Finesse Spin and Might
Dazzle onlookers' eyes in delight
The white chalk flies as yellow spheres bound
Aimed to corners so rarely found
An ace fired straight to the "T"
One spun near on the 90th degree
These sights these sounds from green hallowed lawns
Lead us back as year's new Summer dawns
Hopes for the Future, thoughts to the Past
Blend to form each fan's forecast
What will the next Summer Fortnight bring?
Will it be joy or tears' salty sting?
To be sure as Sunday's sun sets
We leave these green grounds; No Regrets!
Excellent job, Tom.
Wow. Just. Wow.
Sad for Rafitas.
Rafa's Reluctance
(Or Frost Comes Early to Nadal's Season)
Out through the stands and the gates
Of Arthur Ashe I have wended.
I had come to witness Nadal's game,
And so clear it's descended.
He will travel by the sad jet home,
And lo, his dreams they are ended.
The balls are all dead on the ground,
Save those the Maestro's keeping.
To bludgeon them one by one
And watch them go flying and leaping.
Out over autumn's speedy courts
While others are sleeping.
And Rafa's dead knees lie huddled and still
No longer run hither and thither.
The last lone major is gone;
The hopes of the *******s wither.
The heart is still aching to win,
But the feet question, "Whither?"
Ah, when to the heart of a champ
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of rankings,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a match or a season?
Nadal in decline
Is still quite fine
Reaching the final of slams
Where Nole gives him whams
Nadal waits for Nole's level to drop
So he can give Fred a whop
Nadal is still young 'n strong
He'll be here for long
Roger will still a major
My life I will wager
Like Roger there has been none
He is the One.
The only one.
A few more wins
For us, and the twins.
I know my poem sucks ass, even more so compared to Colin's sterling contribution, but you guys can at least give me a fake pat of encouragement on my back. (I am not a native Eng speaker).
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by cortex, starving hysterical *******s,
trolling themselves through TT at dawn looking for an angry fix,
GHOATEd hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of Ashe,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of Wimby 08 floating across the tops of cities contemplating RPM blast, who bared their brains to Heaven under the Uncle Toni and saw Annaconian angels staggering on fast courts illuminated,
who passed through semifinals with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Nalbandian and James-Blake tragedy among the scholars of MTOs,
who were expelled from the academies for crazy and publishing obscene vamoses on the windows of CVAC pods,
who cowered in unshaven rooms in dri-fit, burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to Shakira through the wall,
who got busted in their pubic beards returning to Mallorca with a belt of Paella for New York
apologies to Alan Ginsberg
I know my poem sucks ass, even more so compared to Colin's sterling contribution, but you guys can at least give me a fake pat of encouragement on my back. (I am not a native Eng speaker).
apologies to Alan Ginsberg
Hindi. North India.A noble effort indeed! What's your native language, by the way?