Best Aunties Poems

I don't need to remember what it was like  to be  a kid

 I don' t need to memorize where all the fun...

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The aunites gossip back home
About how you've grown
Out of your white cotton frocks
And into red silk saris

They talk about how you're ripe for marriage
About how...

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You call it a diaper – I call it a nappy
Whatever the name the result’s often crappy!

I call it a handbag; you call it a...

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An innocent girl with a ton heavy Saree

was wedding’s most looked up Naree

she had, or was on make up it was difficult to identify

ceremonies lined...

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you ever heard of a Lao party?
might be one going on right now…
we Lao folks love that celebratin’
sifting through sunrise and slipping
through sunset we sing...

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I’m friends with the skeletons in the closet,
Knives, razors and all sharp instruments are my best friends.
Poison; they’re my parents,
Guns are my cousins.
Water save me...

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I knew it was coming up to Christmas when Mom started to stress
About the lack of money and if she could get us all a...

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in the coldest winter ever, i learned to b-more careful
skool of hard knocks taught me to be more street smart 
you see i grew up...

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A bright young fellow named Ernest
Went to med school to be an internist.
  But the sight of insides
  Gave him really bad vibes,
So...

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Living in the wilds of Africa,
with my Mom and aunties by my side,
following the herd to the watering hole,
as we looked out for the lion...

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What a wonderful thing is an elephant,
He is savvy and witty and eloquent,
He remembers your name and he'll never forget
Everything that you said every time...

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When I was a kid, my hero was Huckleberry Finn, 
his outlook, and conditions under which he lived, 
especially his feelings about school, 
I just...

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The medic said put on these knickers
By golly they caused me loud snickers
Featuring a butt flap
They are truly mad cap
Not ‘cut out’ for tea at...

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Kyree' is his name 
The love we share is insane 
He is Aunties' Prince ? ?...

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I am the grass
on a windy day,
held back
by its own roots.

i am a horse
with blinders on its eyes,
you use me
to feel powerful.

and i connive 
to...

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