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 he’d be. 

On his costume I added a trim
mustard yellow, but though he’s not slim,
he’s no Oscar Mayer,
so don’t raise...

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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 own.
Can you look into my eyes, see them filled with happiness.
Would you ever realize, my life is in such a...

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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 his
Defender, his reminder that
Some of us were willing to believe
In his war with intruders
Intruders who were often invisible
Yet, unmistakably real
Like...

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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 like a mutt....

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






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Published 2018 in "Hollywood Haiku" via wattpad.com...

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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 thoughts a lost love stole.
While nonchalant, the world forgets its birth
and measures value by another god
whose graven gilded form defies...

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amorous playboy
eighteenth century England
British wry humour...

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






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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 most famous line of Gone With the Wind.  If the film censors had their way, it may have ended...

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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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Published 2018 in "Hollywood Haiku" via wattpad.com...

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