Best First Cousin Poems

Roberta lived on this earth for so many years!
Was a great mother, wife, and grandmother, too.
A long and fulfilling life with joy, completion and no...

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There was this guy called Jimmy Chong
Lived on the outskirts of Hong kong
Married his first cousin Susy Dong
Her dad said  "Jimmy this is wrong."

On...

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"The White Lady of Skipsea"


Last night I dreamt 
I dreamed of you
a kind of dream 
within a dream

Diaphanous, 
my soul escaped, 
this firmament,
my immaculate heart
held...

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Written on June 12, 1995
Updated on April 19, 2012

Gail's Note: Written in the voice of a shopaholic 
(the hoarder's first cousin)  
Not really me,...

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amuck - adverb.flailing in all directions, about, around - His ideas ran amuck.

brang – verb, past tense.bring – You ring, you rang, I bring, I...

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Failure is with us every day
			telling us to go for it on fourth and one;			
			more and more that’s done;
			we listen to failure smiling cynically
			as he...

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Force Within

Date: Tue, Dec 1 2015 at 7:10 PM

I lost my lil Brother to the *Violence"
An my First Cousin to the streets *Environment"
Got a Cousin...

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The story of Hezekiah Munny
Is one that’s really kind of funny

He married Olive Eo
First cousin to McMar
She didn’t have much money 
And she didn’t have...

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Of lineage most noble
A man of grave esteem
He could pull a mean cork
The best you ever seen

One third Apache, he was
His father never knew
Hesekiah Munny...

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He looks
At the collage
With glassy eyes
The pieces of the puzzle of him
The memories that have been stolen
Swept away 
Vanquished

An occasional glimmer
A spark of recognition
His dear...

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Sitting on this gray wooden bench beside my late mother
Her light yellow blouse shiffling in the Atlantic air
She is exicited, anxious, happy and swells with...

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Tough position to be in
Wanting to claim European
Knowing something
 darker lies within
Something more natural
Light refraction
Melanin, Godly action
Borderline casual
foot stomping, dust rising
Serengeti surprising
ancestral awakening
First man's first...

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IF ever I had a country : XXVII -  XXVIII

              ...

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Today a dearest of all princess of summer was taken up to heaven.
In a same manner as though of a bummer shaken up till no...

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The King was very angry;
his first cousin had refused to bow
before him. The cousin wanted his throne.

So much his stomach turned and boiled with rage,
that...

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