Best Oscar Poems

A dachshund named Oscar was he,
which adored trick or treating with me,
so I had me some fun
when I sewed a cloth bun,
for a Halloween weenie...

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Look at this smile on my face, do I look sad and alone.
With no one to give me love, and no one to call my...

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Before I knew the day, the time
He’d die, 
I came home to him,
My little smile, knowing he’d
Be there, he was always there
Always aware I was...

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If I were an Oscar Meyer donut
Living in a Pacific Island hut
I’d be sweet and sincere
And drink all your light beer
Scruffy beach bum sugar hair...

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Phileas Fogg's trek
wild globe-trotting travelogue...
fun Passepartout






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Cockney flower girl
snobbish phonetics tutor
opposites attract...

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19th Century
French writer Emile Zola-
defender of truth






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Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius
Paralympic athlete - victorious
Guilty of homicide
No longer glorified

NOT for contest

05~29~15...

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heiress on the lam
great romantic comedy. . .
won top five Oscars






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What reason shuns our born and lifelong vows
to celebrate the lives that sell their souls,
and conscience where a humble heart allows 
a hope for furtive...

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Scarlett, Rhett, Tara
“Fiddle-dee-dee War War War”
~ ‘I don’t give a whoop’





Poet’s note: Okay, okay, you’re right!  Rhett Butler didn’t give a “whoop” in the...

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ravages of war
not about heroism. . .
through eyes of schoolboys






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amorous playboy
eighteenth century England
British wry humour...

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It is way too late to discover
that you can no longer deliver
and after the long, hard years
what remains is wear and tear....

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harsh Colonel Saito
bridge is built... bridge is blown up-
war's utter madness






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