Short Yanks Poems

Chiropractor
not the only one
who yanks and pulls...

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48
Red Sox
Beat the
Yanks
And
Not one
Poem
But I guess
16-1 really
Speaks 
For
Itself...

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    Boyhood pranks
    gave way to thanks

       for the New York Yanks
       and all those franks
   
    
...

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how whimsy can best be defined
relates to the home of each mind
in England it's easy
but Yanks make you queasy
protesting that humor's maligned....

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In England it has achieved fame.
Dried currants dot this steamed pudding.
“Spotted Dick” is this dessert’s name.
So few Yanks have heard of this thing....

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A very kind old gentleman
All his efforts were to keep you close

If you Yanks had stood still 
And had fought like men 
You’d be still be English - men...

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Getting dressed he's much the aggressor
His restraint couldn't be any lesser 
He yanks on his pants
With grumbles and rants
That's why they call him a cross dresser!...

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The Hayne plane took America by storm,
The Yanks soon realised he was not the norm,
He dodged through gaps
As he downed his flaps,
The opposition looked quite forlorn....

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Deadly, Gravity is, 
  Yanks us back to earth
    Thrust down in our graves  

  Wiggle and wriggle out! 
     Lighten up!
      Get away!
        Fly high!

   Whew! Close shave!...

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While playing the card game “Euchre”
The phrase you've been “Trumped” causes furor
Yanks have been thumped
Or perhaps “Trumped”
It's not just a card game, it's much crueler...

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For Deb Guzzi's Dialect contest


Where'd you pahk the cah?
Pahk the cah in hahvad yahd
Let's go hit dem bahs!

Game's about to staht
Dem Yanks be pissin' me off!
My god weahs whed socks...

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Arabs are wondering what fool
They can shoot on their way to school
The Yanks do not care
As they shoot their share
Ensuring the NRA rule 


* Title courtesy  Dick "Shotgun" Cheney ...

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Poetry writes you 
If it’s any good,
And leaves you when it’s through,
Numb and dumb as wood.

Poetry kicks where
You are soft and weak,
And yanks you by the hair,
Laughs to hear you shriek....

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World War One
Men on Horses
German Horst-ses
French Morris-es

World War Two
Men in Tanks
American Yanks
Some named Hank

World War Three
Cyber-Nuclear Spree
Thugs and Hackers
Darkness...Blacker...

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José, Edwin, and Josh are ready to claim the crown
Best team in baseball, they'll become renowned
Onward and upward
No stopping this herd
Forget the Yanks and Red Sox in their pretty ball gowns...

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An innerestin state,
with a Kanga just first rate,
and the Brolgas dance with sweetest symetry,
Aussies n Yanks are cuzzins interstate,
Tazzy Tiger said, "yes sure,  bloody please."

Thanks mate..... 

re Viennas Aussie Kangaroo


Don...

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poor Charlie Brown
exposed as a clown
Lucy positions the football upright
Chuck Swings, and she yanks it from sight!

(not sure if this is a clerihew???) 

written by: Diana-Marie Bombardieri
January 22, 2012
For CLERIHEW battle contest - Poet Destroyer...

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Americans lifted their picket
When Cuba proved they can't lick it
The bureaucrats came
And went back home lame
The Yanks just can't tolerate cricket!*

*Research concluded American diplomats
were assaulted by Cuban crickets rather than a sonic
bombardment. ...

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I got this stubborn little mule 
who doesn't like school 
Each time I give him a carrot 
he starts to drool ! 
Each time I try and teach it 
he looks at me like I'm an idiot !  
I tell  him he has to wear a tie 
and dang, he starts to cry !
Each time he yanks my chain,  
 I go bonkers, its insane !...

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Helter-skelter, upper-downer, 
Bigger smaller, richer poorer
Bitter sweeter, kinder meaner
Sifter opener, thicker thinner.

Meek or dumb, pinky and thumb
Top or bottom, height and fathom.
Head or toe, friend and foe
Day or night, left and right.

Larry scoops Moe; Moe swoops Curly
Curly chunks Larry; Larry yanks Moe....

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Dark alleyway filled with crazy games.
How many days has it been since I started this revolution?
This right here is why I ran away from home- to be free from all these restraining 
chains.
No one to tell me what to do!
I finally have control,
not my mom, not my dad, not anyone!
Yet love yanks me from the top as if I were a fish caught on a hook....

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In gilded hours and yet again
I still hear the same refrain:

"Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh,
Out with the Yanks,
Let the Viet Cong in!"

Ah me! Times change and I am old.
Lest youth's first ardor, e'er grow cold,
Henry the Fifth is what I'll teach.
Boris, Boris, to the breach.

"Mogg, Mogg. Jacob Rees-Mogg!
Let's hear the bark of the British bull-dog."...

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The first black man I ever saw
Came up the stairs from my front door
There were two of them and they were tall
with Dad behind they filled the hall
Carrying bags that were bigger’ n me
And I was three feet four
They slept that night in my big bed
An I slept with mum an’ dad instead
The next day they went off to war
But I never forgot the night before
When they sat and ate and laughed at me
Timidly touching his face...

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In the course of
Life's busy pace,
There comes
A day of reckoning,
When life,
in collusion with time,
Pulls back our reins
compelling us to stop
and take stock of our situation.

Sometimes life yanks us back
from the threshold of success,
Sometimes a few steps away
from the edge of the precipice.

But something good always
comes out of every situation.

It behooves us
to be patient
And trust the process
to find out what that is....

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King George was fast running out of money
Tried to squeeze more out of the colony
Thirteen states said no
Told George where to go
Saying "thank you, but we'll run our own country"...

Paul Revere warned the British are coming
The yanks said "that's ok we ain't moving" 
Many heroic acts abound
The militias stood their ground 
And soon had the Brit Redcoats a-running... 


Written 3rd July 2021

Happy Independence Day. ...

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