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Best Oh Brother Poems

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Oh Brother
I once had a brother in prison.
He knew what in life he was missin"
So he spent out his days
in profitable ways
and learned because he could...

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Categories: oh brother, appreciation, blessing, brother, character,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member She By the Sea
I see the pain
Reflected via turquoise blue
Of the oceans hue
She stares out into the oceans depth
Lost
Her lover dead under the sea
The waves have made her...

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Categories: oh brother, angst, beauty, conflict, death,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Eyes Open
Mi Madre
Lung of Life
Heartbeat of the universe
Birth of consciousness

Mirror of the heavens
Grains of sand
Beneath my tender flesh

How glorious to gaze upon you
I weep with the...

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Categories: oh brother, appreciation, devotion, environment, future,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cowboys Can Change
Inspired by another poem by another poet---------just for fun



Oh, I didn't know that cowboys
weren't respected and revered
John Wayne, when he passed away
Brought me close to...

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Categories: oh brother, change, humorous, satire, social,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member To a Fly Drinking
Fly in orbit, fly in creep, 
Margin on the edge of sleep,
Feast your portion from the best.;
I would bargain blood for rest! 
Leave your frantic...

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Categories: oh brother, funny, humorous, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme



Honourable Natty Dread
FROM OUT OF THIS EARTH, IN EVERY GENERATION
MUST ARISE A MIGHTY PROPHET...
SO DON'T YOU HAVE NO FEAR, YOU HAVE DONE YOUR SHARE, YOU ARE THE...

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Categories: oh brother, anniversary, dedication, faith, funeral,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Squabblesons
During their courting days into her limpid eyes he would gaze.
When in his arms his many charms set her very soul ablaze!
The sweet nothings once...

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Categories: oh brother, funny, husband, wife
Form: Rhyme
The Eyes Have It-Dukes Dilemma
If I were you, I wouldn’t walk there
                 ...

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Categories: oh brother, dog, humorous, pets,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Snow White Retold
There once was a girl named Snow White,
Of a poisoned apple she took a bite.
Seven dwarves found her sleeping,
And they began weeping.
Who would fix their...

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Categories: oh brother, fantasy, funny, snow,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member All Things Pumpkin Spice
In the Fall we are flooded with all things that are Pumpkin Spice.
Some are just plain weird, and not so nice.
Many we wait for all...

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Categories: oh brother, autumn, food, funny, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Economics 101
One to the next is its mother
Each fiscal cliff breeds another
There's no golden goose
Oh brother, this chain noose
Causes all commerce to smother

Kick debt ceiling blues...

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Categories: oh brother, funny, tribute,
Form: Limerick
That's What Mothers Are For
Will you choose your mother or me
Asked wife who would not let it be
As I said oh brother
Sought help from another
And I called her mother...

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Categories: oh brother, funny, humor, mother, wife,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Creepy Feeling
Have you ever been hiking
Out in the woods
When this creepy feeling
Scares you real good?

Afraid to look round
Don't know what's behind
Oh don't be so silly!
Everything's fine!

The...

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Categories: oh brother, brother, brother, brother,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Fox News Is Fraud News
FOX NEWS article rhymed 

When Donald Trump lost the presidency, Fox News lost too
“We’re bleeding eyeballs,” a Fox producer remarked “And we’re scared of blue”
But...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oh brother, america, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Mountain Never Reach
Mountains never reach (money)
Count the sands 
And tell me if 
Numbers have an end
Sorry you base happiness 
To just numbers
a mountain never reach
As your needs...

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Categories: oh brother, abuse, africa, desire, loss,
Form: Epic

Book: Shattered Sighs