Best Opie Poems

Opie woke up feeling right today,
got a good nod in
Everything was copacetic okay
Heard on the news 
there was a crisis he should know about,
as he...

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Painting guru John Opie
a Cornish wonder we do see
His work displayed the peasant type
old & young folk & the like....

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Bello (hello)let me tell you about some Minions
Brightly covered single-cell organisms
Small yellow cylindrical creatures
With one eye and sometimes two
Not sure why . . . 
Minions...

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Ben Matlock is an excellent criminal attorney.
He has gone back to find his roots recently.
The tracks he was following led him to Mayberry.
The sheriff Andy...

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Moses and his sweet Molly Mouse 
have a puzzling dilemma.
They have used all the names they know
from Marvalee to Maryemma.

They have followed all mouse name...

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The shows I watched when young were black and white.
About five channels came on day and night. 
The Beaver, Opie, Jeanie, Flying Nun
were characters I...

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+++++  TV TRAVELS  +++++
                  
Oh where,...

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Take a step back to a simpler place,
Where the world revolved at a slower pace.

Think about Andy, Opie, Barney and Aunt Bee,
Enjoying life in the...

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He's Brad and he's
captain of the football team.
He’s been chosen prom king

and has a scholarship to college.
Everything’s going well for him
but he doesn’t like little...

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In Memory of Andy Griffith

By Elton Camp

It's bad news that we received today
The actor Andy Griffith passed away

For decades he's kept us entertained
As Sheriff Taylor...

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Can you remember Lost in Space, Bonanza and Gunsmoke?
How about Leave it to Beaver—all the fun they`d poke?
The Dick VanDyke Show made us laugh, and...

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(This is a fictional poem)

My son makes Dennis the Menace look like Opie Taylor.
He has the manners of a tyrant and the mouth of a...

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I can't overlook what you did because it was an incredibly stupid thing to do.
You wanted a batch of pickles and you hired Aunt Bee...

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walk inside my mind to a journey deep inside
personifications of laughter filter through the caverns
alone I bask in the vast expanse between that of space...

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Andy Griffith and Barney Fife 
Aunt Bea 
Opie 

Father knows Best 
Betty and Bud 
Kathy called “kitten” 

Loretta Young 
Dinah Shore 
The Lennon Sisters 

Bonanza...

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