Brother Family Poems

If good gods got a great heart
Why do innocent kids get hurt
If we are to live life with lots of laughter
Why do orphans get families...

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Little Susie listened to her older siblings fight.
This time they were acting really mean!
Brother said, “Your friend who’s coming here to spend the night
makes me...

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A Brother's Love

Hey! brother's you are strange creatures...

Brother's are the people in the world who tease their sisters ongoing none stop...

Hey brother, with your cunning...

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Daddy lived for the corn whiskey
Died in a jar
Brother tried to fly
Found dead in his car
All that is left is Mommy and me
Mommy tried for...

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I was named ...
For my father, but not quite as you might think ...
His first name is my middle name, Richard,
And his middle name, Thomas,...

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Written By:  D. Collins 3/8/19


I wish you could have taken this ride with me.
By now, they'd be calling us both a rarity.
Who would've thunk...

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Adventurous
A free spirit
Unlike the rest of us
Part brother part Indian
More akin to the land
A live connection
A maverick
A youth
In his prime

Dark skin
Dark eyes
Unlike the rest of...

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Have you seen Lemmule, the uncle of my daughter's step sister's brother? The cousin of his wife's father's mother who is Auntie to her stepbrother's...

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My words depart as I try 
To explain these happenings
Mistrust has poke its ugly head
And is dragging my family apart
Husband against wife
Mother against daughter
Brother against...

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I dropped my stupid little brother
Down an open storm drain near our home
And now he’s gone forever, always
And my life is finally my own!

You say...

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This man comes off tough.
Doesn't show much love.
But truth be told
It's all a front.

His childhood, he dares not to repeat.
He often woke alone, with nothing...

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All others your brothers,bother each other 
to do something good further.One brother to other like mirror take pain to get rid of pain of other...

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Thank God I have a Brother!
He fixes up the truck,
I sometimes give him money,
Whenever he gets stuck.

(Not just for up and fixin’
The truck – not...

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And so it begins
 the endless montage of words amid hugs and kisses,
  struggling to express untethered euphoric blisses,
   the joy, the...

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Separation,
combined with everlasting judgment,
Betrayal and bickering result in,
“You go your way, and I'll go mine”
“She's your sister!” you may say,
But how can that be,
When you...

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I hesitate to get my cool clean drink this morning.
Something is different. The cold air is the same.
The water is still, I do not sense...

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Once upon a time
there was a princess
named Cassandra
who was an only child
What she missed most
with all her heart
was a brother or a sister
to play with
so...

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Perhaps infertile
incomplete
unwashed memories
of elder v younger,
Goliath v David,
crusades v communion
critical, yet part of chronic, events
speak extended family disengagement truth
to powerful dirty laundry engagement failures.

That disclaimer...

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Robin
Kind husband, vigilant father, loving son, mischievous brother
Brother of Lizard and Kippie-bombs
Lover of Kahtabeak, Danbug and Benbot
Who feels joyful, happy and satisfied
Who fears brown recluse...

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Morse code in my ear…that click-clicking-ticking deep down in my canal, even after I cleaned out my ears; it started after my Mother passed. ...

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