BANSHEE GIRLS OF TENNIS



"Aaaaaaaah Oooooour!
Aaaaaaaah Oooooour!" is
Victoria Azarenka's battle cry.

Banshee girls shrieking
In the dead of a Brisbane night.
All to distract opponents.

Death-defying cries
Ring out in the dead of night,
Banshee girls cheating.

Banshee girls cheating
Distracting their opponents,
On the tennis court.

A question I must ask:
Do banshees play tennis?
Or just girl players?

I once heard a banshee shriek
It scared me half as much,
As shrieking tennis girls.

Shriek and shriek again
Banshee girls on tennis courts,
Distracting their opponents.

Banshees shrieking at night
Out on the tennis court.
Or are they women players?

Billy Jean King, Margaret Court,
Evonne Goolagong, didn't shriek.
Why does the young breed need to?

THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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"Aaaaaaaah Oooooour! Aaaaaaaah Oooooour!" is Victoria Azarenka's battle cry.

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Written on February 15, 2009

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on August 17, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme axa bcd xcB BDe xxf gxx xxD cef egx xxx
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 780
Words 128
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3

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