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Best Harpo Poems

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Harpo Marx
Most people did not know that Arthur was your real name.
However, with your brothers, you achieved great fame.
Even though you could talk, you never said...

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Categories: harpo, dedication, tribute,
Form: Rhyme



Inspired By a Slim Harpo Song By Ron Porter
I said I like what you're selling
but I'm not the type to pay.
I live over there?; ?the yellow door,
come see me on? "free sample day?"
She...

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© Ron Porter  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: harpo, funny
Form: Light Verse
The Ow Network
(A)	brown skin girl from Kosciusko 
                   ...

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Categories: harpo, black african american, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Laugh - Fives
Moshe, Larry, Curly,
Howls, cries, nyuks;
Three silly comic stars:
Smile, clown -- Cluck!

Chico, Harpo, Benny, Berle,
Moron grins, happy chins;
Crazy nutty comic kooks:
Funny jokes -- egads zooks! ...

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Categories: harpo, fun, humorous, nonsense, silly,
Form: Light Verse
America
America
I´m here to bring you
What you don´t need
Another heartfelt poem
Another heartsick plea
Worth less than
Chewed gum
America I’m tapping
At your window
At 3 am
With a bag full of
Sour...

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Categories: harpo, spiritual,
Form: Blank verse



Dialect Tickle Matt Arial Hiz Im
Courtesy of Marx (albeit Zeppo, Harpo, Groucho, and Chico) 
whose acts brought generations of laughter to Vaudeville and 
then the Silver Screen adlibbed, linkedin, and...

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Categories: harpo, adventure, celebrity, class, day,
Form: Free verse
Dialect Tickle Matt Arial Hiz Im 1st Sentence
Courtesy of Marx (albeit Zeppo, 
Harpo, Groucho, and Chico), whose 
acts (along Seuss iz Zacks Fifth 
Avenue) brought generations of 
laughter to Vaudeville, and then...

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Categories: harpo, 11th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Dream of Celebrities I
Met some famous people in a dream I had last night.
Meeting and greeting them was surely my delight,
However, the way they mingled was more than...

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Categories: harpo, fantasy, funny, imagination, me,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Wildflowers
Wildflower field tells me beauty is greed
Blooms never at rest in clay pot homes,
           ...

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Categories: harpo, beautiful, beauty, color, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Rogues Gallery Counts Trumpeting Don As Prized Ace
a limning rush of sinister 
     fiery angry flames bent avast
analogous copse, 
     where every limb bough,...

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Categories: harpo, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Whar Art Mine Fervent Zeal For Marx Brothers
Whar art mine fervent zeal for Marx Brothers?

While figuratively trout fishing
for ideas to write about
analogous (hook, line and sinker)
idea wormed itself into mind with clout
moment...

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Categories: harpo, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Who's Left
Lewis Carroll, Harpo Marx,
Albert Einstein, Eminem,
Paul McCartney, Judy Garland – 
These are just a few of them.

Add DaVinci and Obama,
Oprah, Jimi and Bill Gates,
Charlie Chaplin,...

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Categories: harpo, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Duck Soup
Springtime is upon us,
And I'm perched upon a tree,
I would truly love to write
But there's nothing I can see, 
When all at once I saw...

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Categories: harpo, animal, film, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ready Set Go
Wrap in dry onion skins and dip’em right;
you’re going to get a big surprise.
It’s colored oval onion bliss;
something you wouldn’t want to miss.

Grab those, Sharpies...

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Categories: harpo, appreciation, art, color, easter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dory, My Star of Yesteryear
There I was in the 1970s
an impressionable sort of guy
then I learned about a lady
who when she sang I did sigh!

One of her albums just...

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Categories: harpo, memory, music, song, star,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs