The Billiards Pool Name Game

"Billiards pool" is my name.

Billiards pool is my game.

I’m stuck, I’d like to shout,
I need help here at About,

For billiards pool, so I don’t feel shame.

I’ve been driven to sheer poetry (or is it drivel and sheer lunacy) by the name(s) of our game, pool and/or pocket billiards. I constantly have to write “billiards” along with “pool” if you want to find some of our hundreds of pages of pool instruction and billiards fun on an Internet search as “pool” tends to bring up people scantily attired in bikinis who are sipping martinis, some of whom are hairy men indeed. Um…

Seriously, I’ve taken at stab at both resolving our sport’s nomenclature crisis and a bit of Japanese-styled poetry. My poem was written in mere minutes but I’ve been meditating for a long time on the beauty and geometry of our game. I guess it all just came in one of those flashes of insight that comes following a botched Seppuku attempt. (I’ve also been meditating on James Clavell’s Shogun for some time.)

I’d love to read your billiards pool poems here. Why not leave them as a comment attached to today's blog entry? See if you can beat my best efforts as linked here below:

Contemplative Billiards Pool Haiku

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