Tennis (translation below)

A poem about my favourite sport, written it after playing it with my cousin after years

Uma raquete na mao,

uma rede ao horizonte,

nao preciso buscar mais longe,

esse è o meu paraiso, meu irmao !

Sabor de trovoada,

barulho de relampago, um shocke,

cada vez que a bola na raquete da um toque,

e la vai meu pequeno sol a busca da sua lua amada.

Quando piso na quadra o tempo para,

encrencras, preocupaçoes e problemas ficam por fora,

so entro eu e quem me encara.

O voltear da bola carrega meu humor por uma hora,

um ponto ganhado, exulto sem para',

um ponto perdido, de raiva grito.

... Esse è o tennis que nunca largarei !

TRANSLATION

Title: Tennis

A racket in my hand,

a net in the horizon,

don't need to look further,

that's my heaven, bro' !

Taste of thunder,

noise of lightning, a shock,

whenever the ball touches my racket,

and there my little sun goes looking for its beloved moon.

When I step in the tennis court time stops,

troubles, worries and problems stay outside,

only me and my challenger gets in.

The spinning of the ball carries my mood for an hour,

A winned point, I cheer without stopping,

a lost point, of anger I shout.

... That's the tennis I'll never leave !

Author's Note

Hope you liked it, waiting for your reviews about it :) And just to make it funnier: What's the sport that make you feel that way? Tell me that in your review !

Reviews

[Victoria PoetryBunny]

To answer your question in the Author's Note, I enjoy Basketball. Though I like tennis never was too good at it lol. It's fun though. I like the passion in this poem, it shows your love for tennis. I like this part:
"Taste of thunder,
noise of lightning, a shock,
whenever the ball touches my racket,
and there my little sun goes looking for its beloved moon."

[Dr. Wood ?]

too old to play sports now my friend, but football was always my game, English football, that is...I used to live and breathe the game and even now I cannot pass any group of kids playing it without stopping for a while to enjoy their enjoyment. This was a truly honest poem which depicted your love of Tennis perfectly

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I like this a lot. The imagery is beautiful, and I admire your honesty. I think the main thing that caught my attention to this piece is that it is original. Great job :)

[afra]

i like tennis ..thats why i love this poem ...well done

[eglantine]

again, I really wish I could hear the non-translated version read out loud

[Leslie Philibert]

Tennis is a great sport of the spectators who wan`t to excercise their neck muscles,it is a bit upper class and ideal for people who like paying obscene prices for strawberries at Wimbledon. I come from a working class family in London, for us there is only football ( for our American friends soccer), football and football.... and I like the poem.

[外人 (Gaijin)]

Really? It was like that in Italy once, but I found a nice club that doesn't ask for much money to teach me ... and they always give me free tickets to Foro Italico (Rome's "wimbledon") xD Look better, I bet you'll find a cheap club, give it a try, because it's the best sport of all time !!! =D

[Mazie Tackett]

It seems you like this very much so that's all that matters and my sport would have to basketball I've never played real tennis I've played it on video games like xbox and wii but I've been told its much hard in real life I should try sometime this poem has motivated me to try a new sport

[Krista Weiss]

Really good! I wish I was skilled enough to actually play tennis! It's seems really fun thought! Anyways :) good job! haha

[Call_Me_Miss_Imperfect]

This is great and interesting since us readers now know your favorite sport! Which I haven't played tennis in real life yet. What I mean by that is, I play tennis on the Wii ;) Haha! It's actually a lot of fun. Sounds like from your poem that you really do enjoy tennis. I'd definitely have to say my favorite sport is basketball. I could play for hours. I'm going to try out for High School's basketball team this year XD Again, good job this is outstanding. :D

Minor mistake:
(noise of lightining, a shock,) It should be *noise of lightning, a shock*



Ashley Rivers-- your friend ;)

[外人 (Gaijin)]

Thanks for your kind review :) Already corrected, thx ! =D

[Call_Me_Miss_Imperfect]

You're welcome, anytime. You know to send your work for me to read anytime, anyday right? XD and again you're welcome. :)