Short Oh Brother Poems

OH BROTHER

mom mends over skirt
pratfall split in Bob’s britches
Betty’s witty finger
 
5/7/2017
Senryu...

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Jeanice and I helping each other
But sometimes it is like "Oh brother!"
Work and work and work and work
Pray to God I don't go berserk!...

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Will you choose your mother or me
Asked wife who would not let it be
As I said oh brother
Sought help from another
And I called her mother to see...

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I once had a brother in prison.
He knew what in life he was missin"
So he spent out his days
in profitable ways
and learned because he could listen....

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Cheers to the boy whom found love
In her name he writes
Art to color
Poet to pen
My heart 
For her..
I see all
My love
Will you 
Hold me
For I ever
In your arm
And I complete
Let time be still
For iin you I see
Oh brother plea...

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If it is red wine 
Jason will dine 
Since it is time 
For the young to have a dirty mind 
Oh brother 
Here comes headless mother 
Looking to kill my lover 
Oh boy am I gonna suffer 
Go to the other 
Cabin and kill another 
While I play a role 
That will make Jason fold...

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Oh brother
You are my caring brother by the way
So near and dear
So good to have you back close again
After all these years
I can rely on you for sound advice
Now I finally think you are smarter than me
You are an army brat
You always use your GPS
I am so honored to be your sister...

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One to the next is its mother
Each fiscal cliff breeds another
There's no golden goose
Oh brother, this chain noose
Causes all commerce to smother

Kick debt ceiling blues in the groin
With Ponzi whose scheme we should join
He's someone now dead
For the platinum head
Of a trillion buck magic act coin...

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Dear friend of mine,
You were divine,
And yet I never knew.
A view of you,
So true- it grew,
Did not quite pass my mind.

If I could but,
Just tell you what,
Your words have meant to me,
I would take these lines of gold in worth,
And place them round your neck.

I was fond of you-
Oh brother of mine-
As only time could tell.
If clocks rewound,
I would paint a tale,
Where friends did never bail....

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You’ve shown me
What it’s like to be
In love with a wonderful dove.
I hold you near
To my heart, my dear.
I once thought
My heart was wrought
With love for another.
Oh, brother,
What a fool I once was,
And now because of your love
My wonderful dove
I see it is you
To whom my love is true.
Thank you for loving me
And for showing me it is thee
That I love
My wonderful dove....

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Dad, dad, dad
What is making me so glad?
Mum, mum, mum
I’ll scream till I’m numb
Brother oh brother
My mood is from the weather
Sister oh sister
Dancing makes me lighter
Aunt, aunt, aunt
My new dress, I flaunt
Uncle, oh uncle
You complete the family circle
Me, me, me
Long ago…………….
Someone has paid my fee
With gladness and screaming
Shouting and dancing
I say merry christmas!...

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Oh why, oh brother, did you leave?
Did you really mean to go?
Was there something you were searching for?
What was it you needed to know?
And how, dear brother, will the children bear
the burden of what is true?
What will they think and what will they feel
and how shall I talk of you?
So, help me brother, on my way,
to help them with their strife.
And tell me brother why you chose
to take your very life....

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since wrong is wrong,
and right is the only escape route;
can't we just forgive?
let bygones be bygones,
and love afresh renew.

Hold me tight like I was your own;
feed me not with crumbs,
oh brother of my father.
give me the jolly life as a man of caliber.

Do not sideline me
in the merriment of life.
blood is thicker
and water lighter…
let it not vanish;
these bonds we share,
oh brothers of my father....

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PARTY IMITATION

boy watches
birthday video

oh spouse! oh brother!
two bro-in-laws, and
dear old dad, a full
living color gift
dance to the tune:

YMCA

i know y’all can hear it
in your head.

their hands form each letter

“Y” “M” “C” “A”

shirts shimmy
up the tummy

red-headed rapscallion
two year old toddler
smirks
from the other side
of the camera

up goes his shirt

5/19/2017...

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A monk is kissed by a woman

Can you remember?
Can you feel?
remember her lips
The gentle cusp of her cheek
Her pretty eyes
God be thanked for the vision of women
are you happy?
feel contented?
are you flattered?
But all she did was to kiss you
And she a stranger out of the blue

Was there a message?
A point?
A call for help perhaps
Was she a person of the night?
Sent to tempt you into sin
Oh Brother be steadfast
And stay content
You are God’s anointed 
Sworn to service only him...

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