Short Yelped Poems

You whined yipped and cried
Howled and yelped and begged for help
Your pack lies in wait

By Robb A. Kopp...

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There’s a cordial, mild tempered shih tzu
Who spends her spare time learning jujitsu
Attacked by a terrier
She kicked his big dereeair
And yelped: That black eye you have really fits you!

1/13/22...

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Where is that girl with the bird nest they said.
I thought this was odd, and it was right on her head.
I want one too, I yelped, as did the rest of the class.
It was adorable, so beautiful, in no way ugly or crass....

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Colorful bug gave a cha cha cha
Rubbing his petootsie on a lah dee dah
Shaking his boogle woogle with a rah rah rah
He’s such a beauty! Said my great grandma!
He crept onto my hand! yelped old grandpa.
Smacking him hard, ending his cha cha cha...

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My dog sometimes has the desire
To lay too close to the fire,
To the warm hearth he succumbs
His favorite spot when winter comes.

One night when tranquility prevailed
An exploding spark got on his tail,
He yelped so loud my canine friend,
I had a hot dog with one burnt end....

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He caught the car and shook it violently
But it did not shake
It dropped out of his mouth
Taking one of his favorite teeth with it

He yelped a bit and looked at me.
I told you not to catch it, I told him
He is like my children
Everything is his way or the highway, a stubborn dog....

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We get a new mattress.
The dog is intrigued.
He chews it to bits.
We have no words.
Because he is a baby.
And we know he does not mean it.

We get new curtains.
He pulls them down.
The rod falls on his head.
I am sure he yelped.
We were not home
But we think he probably has learned his lesson....

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What was that noise?
Nothing, his mother said.
A lion or a bear! He yelped.
His mother rolled her eyes.

What was that noise?
His mother did not reply this time.
Terrified, he took a flying leap
Landing on her back.

You have to stop doing this! She told him.
I am elderly, and you are too old for this stuff.
But I heard a….....

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Every day one must die.
and if your not afraid you'r telling a lie.
Thousands stayed,
Thousands prayed,
Thousands helped,
Thousands yelped.
For what had happened was a terrible thing.
But on that day,
thousands got their wing.
As the wind blows,
you can hear them sing.
remember their smile,
remember their face,
because noone will ever take their place....

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Jerry’s on his holidays
So Tom‘s left all alone
Maybe Spike would be his friend
But Tom can’t find a bone

That great big sleeping bulldog
Often dreams of roasted cat
If Tom Cat wants to be his friend…
Well, best of luck with that

So Tom tapped Spike’s left shoulder
Then he yelped an awful cry
Tom’s tail was chomped and that’s what’s meant
By ‘Let sleeping dogs lie.’...

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Joyful Rudolph with a snickery snack snoop
Slid into the snowdrift his fluff tail in a droop.
We watched him slide in to the reindeer group
Hello! Yelped Dasher’s wife, Ms. Loop-de-loop.

Joyful Rudolph! Come over here! Sit by me!
This was a call from a Christmas elf near yonder tree.
Rudolph was in demand, his time was anything but free.
Go on! Yelped Ms. Loop-de-loop. You’re on my hoof, you see!...

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I love the snow grandma said with feeling.
It makes me happy said her grandson, Greeling.
The more it fell, the happier they became.
Cocoa! Said grandma. Greeling yelped “Monopoly game!”

School was cancelled, so they stayed inside cozy and fine.
Park Place and Boardwalk gave grandma a really hard time.
Greeling was winning by giant leaps and bounds.
I hope the snow never stops! Said grandma, who owned two hounds....

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The ship in the bottle grew pirates and more.
I noticed it one day on my way home from the store.
With pointed lances, they made each other walk the plank.
I could barely wait to tell my best friend name of Hank.

He ran right over to see what I saw on a daily basis now.
I see none of them, he stated, watching the brow.
Are you serious? I yelped as one stuck me in the eye.
With a lance that he had hand carved. What a mean guy!...

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The jacks are frolicking again I heard TomTom yell.
We ran outside to see the result of the witches’ spell.
Jack-o-lanterns were sitting quietly not doing a thing.
Come on! Dance! Yelped TomTom, and do it with zing.

The jacks sat silently, not moving the least little bit.
TomTom stomped off angry after throwing a baby fit.
Gossipy cat was not happy, and frankly, neither was I.
I had been in the middle of eating my warm pumpkin pie....

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“What kind of food is that?” Lee turkey asked the pig.
The pig pretended he did not understand.
Grunted his way out of answering outright.
“That’s a turkey leg!” Lee’s cousin yelped. “Disgusting!”
“You are a cannibal!” they both yelled at the pig.
The pig did not know what he was eating.
He only knew it was delicious.
He smiled his happiest grin.
Knowing he could take both of them if he had to.
Wondering how long you bake a turkey leg?...

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I would like to be a lady for a day the butterfly said.
Dressed in pinks and oranges, and perhaps a little red.
You cannot have it all, her godmother replied.
But I can make you yellow, and help you to glide.

So the butterfly turned into a lady on a warm Tuesday.
She glided into windows, but people shooed her away.
One tried to swat her with a flyswatter, and smacked her tail.
Turn me back into a butterfly, she yelped gliding off a rail....

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Where have they gone? The tabby cat said.
Who cares? Asked Australian shepherd as he jumped on the bed.
His paw tore up a corner of lace on a pillowcase hem.
Get off of there! Yelped a chow chow named Jim.

I think they’re on the lake, they may be looking in.
Two kitties chased each other under the bed, a total win.
Let’s mess up the whole room, a scruffy tomcat suggested.
Better not! Said a persnickety old maid cat, we might be arrested....

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dead-diddly-ed

you can't live in a state
of vigilance like that 
waiting
for it to pop up 

you'd die of stress

one of them was just strutting through
the living room
like it owned the place

i'm now sitting upstairs 

i yelped and dived out the way
the insects round here have been
losing 
their damn minds lately 

skittering around 

but i found the body of the gejigeji 
this morning 

it looks like i'll have to burn the house down now...

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DARKER   SHADES.



Have you known some darker shades
Ever bitter vested in hand held grief
Like bolting of steed in fast uplands
Onslaught of undines in yelped streams.

Ancient roads kept in disturbed sleep
Under dripping afternoons of grey storm
There banishment of hope and despair
An adjustment in some vespered norm.

To make physical pain less lonely
A loneliness like sceptred face of time
A fresh start in some polluted airs
To purify festered strains of the mind....

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The dog barked ,
and its puppies yelped,
I was raised,
mulling my eyes,
I got out,
something was definitely wrong,
the winter bit in my bed clothes,
and crapped through legs deep in,
shaking my head,
to drop the drowse,
I began to look for my glasses,
and frantically browsed,
getting them on table,
I put them on,
and went to the door,
cranking it ajar,
I stepped to the kennel,
only to find,
that nothing was wrong,
the canine family,
simply needed more of flannel....

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