Brother Light Verse Poems

My sister once had a dream, that was driving her crazy.
It seemed so real, but it was very faint and hazy.
She thought it was real...

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Author's note: This piece, dear reader, is my idea of a possible 3rd grade writing assignment around this time of year.

Dear Santa,
What I'd really like...

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An old preacher named Ned
Got it into his head
To make a musical pilgrimage
Before he was dead.
He claimed divine inspiration
To form a band and tour the...

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More lipstick! cheered Katie’s brother six-year-old Bard.
Get both cheeks! Get your mouth! How about your nose?
Three-year-old Katie is smearing lipstick on her lips and cheeks
Bard...

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Why do humans take a soapy shower?
I have no idea the frog replied to his brother.
Do you think I could have one?
I don’t see why...

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Alice
Alice was just going on eight years old
When Lewis Carroll made her fall down a hole.
The incredible place she imagined she'd found,
Buried in her backyard...

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My old cat passed a couple days ago.
I thought I was prepared but I guess that wasn't so..
Sixteen years we'd been together, thru many a...

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Nells has no idea how appealing she is.
Not caring about her appearance like other girls.
She throws on a tribal cat suit and lies in a...

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adorable optimistic beagle puppy
reaching for the sky paws up high
dancing the watusi and then the tango
more reserved brother watches longingly
wishing he felt free spirited too...

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He once was a she
  Though now she’s a he
If he marries me or my brother
  ~ Hee-hee we will be...

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My dear brother Butch,

Hair are the highlights of my week:
I got a job at the Hairway to Heaven salon!
Our motto: "We color your hair or...

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Our uncle Bobby died, he told me.
Not quite dead, his brother corrected him.
We buried him!
Oh, yeah. That’s right.
Maybe he was dead.
I kept my comments to...

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I am short of greatness,
  I am beyond what I can dream,
  I'm minor not tiny,
  I'm all mind, not muscle...
 ...

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She was an old maid with six brothers,
Once again, she held a gun on her “date”.
He began to shake.
His boots clanged together.
Another one gone? A...

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Crying...with a wet diaper 
The two-year-old boy weeps 
Mom and dad still sleep 
His five-year-old sister awakes- hyper 
She thinks- "I'll give him a cookie"...

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