There’s snooker on the TV here this week,

where everybody plays with coloured balls,

competing for this year’s World Championship,

with half a million quid for the first prize.

 

The players have been honing their technique

at home and in the private snooker halls,

and hoping that their form won’t take a dip

resulting in an early round demise.

 

They’ll want to take their chances, hit their peak

as games get harder, dodging the pitfalls

of mis-cues, bad contacts and brinkmanship

in safety play, ‘cause that could be unwise.

 

It helps, of course, to have a lucky streak

to supplement those skills when greatness calls,

and he who blends the two will then outstrip

the rest, and end up lauded to the skies.