Brett Poems

Brett’s Big Birthday Bash

...Brett threw himself a party
Since he hit the big 4-0
And there never was a question if
We would or wouldn’t go.

He planned it with his mother’s help
And catered in the food, 
With jars of flo...
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Categories: brett, birthday,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy assassination gone bad

...It was something about my murder my abusive husband the arson murders victim nine homeless man FBI questions my fear reaching out to FBI agents something is very wrong I know my husband is going to k...
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Categories: brett, allah,
Form: Fibonacci


Special Needs

...My daughter met her boyfriend
At a camp for “special needs.”
Their story started years ago
And this is where it leads –

To her birthday celebration,
Which was perfect, yesterday,
Near at and ...
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Categories: brett, appreciation, birthday, friendship,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOf East Asian Call Centers

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  There’s something to be said
     for the local practitioner

  Whose phone is not answered
     by an East Asian call center

  It’s nice knowing what you hear
     is what you get

  U...
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Categories: brett, business, giggle, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCurtains

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Setting: a rendition of Tara Plantation, 1860’s Georgia
Characters: Scarlatina (S), an oddly-dressed Southern Belle
   Brett Rutler (B), a dashing, but presently quite confused, rogue
 Scene: ...
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Categories: brett, clothes, confusion, society,
Form: Verse


Imprints of our Shoes

...We tramp along the fire-trail to see a water view;
The sand is damp from morning rain, and imprints of our shoes
Are stamping in beside the chequered tracks of cycle tyres 
As Brett relates the na...
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Categories: brett, bird, environment, nature, people,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberOur Big Lunch

...God Save the King! So echoed round 
the village halls, the pubs, the streets
the day our Charlie Prince was crowned. 
Homes decked with bunting, cake, and treats.

We celebrated with a rave, 
o...
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Categories: brett, celebration,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhen

...MY HEART SINKS, MY EYES WEEP
MY BRAIN EXPLODES, I CAN’T SLEEP

I DON’T UNDERSTAND, I NEVER WILL
A SWEET CHILD WHY DO THE COPS KILL?

CHILDREN WITH CHOCOLATE COLOURED SKIN
HARDLY ALLOWE...
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Categories: brett, child abuse,
Form: Other

Bank Day Rassling Saturday Nite

...Everybody wants to be champion
Everybody got a plan
Everything's signifacent
Peoplez, my people!
Take your assignment
and task!
Get in line and do what's
asked of you.
Sh$t I have been doing ...
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Categories: brett, culture, encouraging, film, humanity,
Form: Ballad

Bank Day Rassling Saturday Nite

...Everybody wants to be champion
Everybody got a plan
Everything's signifacent
Peoplez, my people!
Take your assignment
and task!
Get in line and do what's
asked of you.
Sh$t I have been doing ...
...
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Categories: brett, culture, encouraging, film, humanity,
Form: Ballad

Elementary Mathematics, 101

...“After one-hundred, which number comes next?”
inquired Ms. Colvin as she studied her text.

All of us kids raised our hands high,
then Ms. Colvin picked Brett, this one dumb guy.

“Two-hundred,...
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Categories: brett, 2nd grade, fun, math,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDoctor's Pet

...There lived an old man named Brett
Doctor’s delight and hospital’s pet
He got finally convinced
It’s better to be deceased 
Than be in medicine’s throttling net!...
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Categories: brett, age, care, death,
Form: Limerick

Briana's Birthday

...Today’s Briana’s birthday
So we celebrated large.
Her boyfriend and his mother,
For this epic day, took charge.

We hadn’t met in person
For some fifteen months or more
Since Covid, helped by ...
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Categories: brett, birthday, celebration, daughter,
Form: Rhyme

Songs That Have Shaped Who I Am

...Chapters by Brett Young and Gavin DeGraw
Hell of a View by Eric Church
All of Me by John Legend
Rise up by Andra Day
Let’s Do it Again by J boog
On Tonight by Chase Rice
Timeless by Dallas Smit...
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Categories: brett, 12th grade, anxiety, courage,
Form: Acrostic

Brett and Rhett - Nursery Rhyme

...Messy twins Brett and Rhett
Having fun playing with mud
Squatting and crawling
Diving and falling
In ooey gooey mud

Brett is sitting facing Rhett
Rhett spatters some mu...
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Categories: brett, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme

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