Whenever Yaks Play Basketball
From the book The Tighty-Whitey Spider
Whenever yaks play basketball
it isn’t any fun at all.
Their games are always such a snore.
They never shoot. They never score.
It seems they don’t enjoy the sport.
They never run around the court.
Instead they simply settle back
and yak, and yak, and yak, and yak.
— Kenn Nesbitt
Copyright © 2009. All Rights Reserved.
Reading Level: Grade 1
Topics: Animal Poems, Sports
Poetic Techniques: Anthropomorphism & Personification, Assonance, Descriptive Poems, Imagery, Onomatopoeia, Pun Poems
Word Count: 53
From the book The Tighty-Whitey Spider
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