Best Relatives Poems

Oh, yes, Darling! Please meet me up the street, in fifteen minutes, right past the old tan house with that porch, bamboo.
We need to talk about things, you and me, without your mean relatives, and that includes your cousin Ted Stew.
I’d gladly trade this car...

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Every Sunday after church
Old great-aunt Dora
Full bloodied Cherokee,
In her finest dress and fedora,
Drove her pink Cadillac
To the San Joaquin River.
She would stop in the same place
And sat on an old stump,
Under a camphor tree,
By the riverbank,
And would cast her fishing pool,
Drinking her moonshine liquor.

Old widow...

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By virtue of faith-relationship with God
along spiritual blood line midst redemption genes
I claim that through Scripture truths
my divine heritage is beautified
through these Bible characters
regarded as blessed women.

1.	EVE (Genesis 3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.)
Without this...

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Six relatives have I, all much like me.
The ones most common are WHICH, THAT and WHO.
There’s also WHOM.  A formal dude is he.
WHOMEVER and WHOEVER I like too.

These relatives, with last name “Pronoun” are
quite important fellows, for their causes
include being descriptive. Each one’s a...

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I was embarrassed for my gold-finding prowess was slim to none.
I lived alone, in a mushroom hut, built sloppily for one.
My leprechaun relatives were braggarts, and blowhards and mean.
The things they said to put me down were evil and obscene.

A friendly cardinal named Ed saw...

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My happy Aunt Petootie
comes clomping over.
Your mother says you write poetry now.
Her eyebrows are angry.

Uh-huh. I admit.
She is in full glare mode now.
Why? 
Because I like it?

Diabolical laugh.
Hey, Glitzy, get over here!
Guess what Miss Funny-Duddy just said?

I inch out of their circle of hilarity,
wondering why...

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Here are six tales of six relatives of mine
Now all have passed in the passage of time
Mostly seen through the eyes of a child
Poetic licence used for I’m no Oscar Wilde
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Aunt Ada and Aunt Edie were a scary pair for me
Ada wore a real...

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Explain your historical evolution radically, inclusively, expansively, good-humoredly; 
not carefully, deductively, reductively, sarcastically.

We once had a school of thought
among up and coming geneticists and historians
that the precursor to the regeneration of a species,
or even an ecological paradigm,
most any kind of  reiterative memory and retrieval...

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Six relatives
shell upon shell of relationships
Each layer has its function
Even hens keeps the family in order

My sister Lina and I 
are completely different
only a leaf thin wall 
separates the laughter from the tears
She is hypersensitive
but incredibly friendly and caring

Frank my brother is my best friend,
he's...

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Albert Einstein took a shine 
To time and space mobility 
And called it Relativity. 
 
His gray sweater baggy, 
And his blue eyes bright. 
Peppered hair shaggy— 
The professor looked a fright. 
 
Soon Einstein gained fame 
In a clever physics game, 
E=MC2 bore his...

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Lending Money to Relatives

By Elton Camp

Most every family, of bums, has one or two
He’s in a tight and doesn’t know what to do

“I really hate to ask to borrow some dough.
I promise that I’ll promptly repay, though.”

He asks because his credit rating is near zero
Hopes...

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The lunch dishes were still in the sink
We were having cans of beer to drink

Then came the sound we did abhor
The opening of an automobile door

“Just peek and see who’s out there.
For any visitors, I sure don’t care.”

My wife’s request I was quick to obey
And...

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I lived my truth and rode it as far toward the sun as I could
But we got too close and the wax melted
When I fell to earth I fell hard
Realizing there are other truths

You did not have to let me land on my head I...

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He is a failure, my cousin Tee said.
How so?  
He had two businesses, neither of them made it.
Yes, he is a loser, Cousin Dexter chimed in.

What were they?
A bakery, and a laundry mat.
So he can bake and do laundry! I said smartly. Sounds like...

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The stranger is strange, pariah, leper sounds offbeat,
 Neither truculent, nor relevant, all destined to encounter the doomed relic;
The bizarre outlander, alien to stimulate the instant pulse-beats!
The uninvited hobnobber, one despises to welcome in routine frolic.
The stranger is unsolicited, the object of latent fear,
As strange...

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