Brother Quatrain Poems

Were you brothers? Were you sisters?
I hope one day I shall know -
When I leap with you in soft blue skies,
'pon clouds as white as...

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Some girl named me 'Pistachio'
where she walked beside the sea.
What she's called, I'll never know,
but she seemed quite sweet to me.

Her brother caught me on...

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Can't say I found the ending 
unpredictable or surprising...
Nonetheless my heart was touched 
by their self-sacrificing...

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It was November first, Hedgehog Grandpa’s birthday.
"We’ve got to be going!" Mom was yelling that day.
The one that was keeping us back was brother Gay.
A...

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A generation’s first, this lovely boy,
my nephew, held us all in total sway.
His every word and antic brought us joy.
I must confess we spoiled him...

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Skunk cat had a distinct wildly artistic look
His mama was a hairdresser that rarely got shook
She fixed him up with tattoos, stickers, and such.
You look...

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Why don’t you read a book to your brother?
This suggestion was made by her old grandmother.
She gave her grandma a pretty exasperated look.
Not knowing how...

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A boisterous, blustery braggart,
an orange-headed toad of a frog,
croaked in the bog ‘bout Magaga:
Ezekiel’s Gog and Magog.

His roaring set off a big earthquake;
brother ‘gainst brother...

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The chickadees need a little Christmas mirth
Stated an empathetic kind elf named McGirth
He decorated a tiny tree for them.
They accepted it and sang a Christmas...

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Carmen has never tried to be pretty
Her six brothers warned her to stay plain.
But as she grew, she could not help herself.
Now they are scaring...

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two lost forlorn basset hounds had their tempers on the ground
they were wet and soggy and soppy and lonely, and it was cold.
two gooders named...

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That rodent is so odd, his brother told him.
Stay away from her, you might catch it, Jim.
Jim was a reader with his nose forever in...

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Santa Claus cooks the turkey and gravy and bakes up pumpkin bread.
His wife tiptoes out of the kitchen to converse with his brother Ed.
They decide...

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We watch the scene repeatedly.
When women argue heatedly
no goodness helps, no king, no queen.
Repeatedly we watch the scene.


Will loves Kate and Meg loves Harry.
In the...

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They sit and sit; they don’t get fat
like you or me if we did that!
Two kitties which are cute and fit.
They don’t get fat; they...

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