The Most Unknown of the Great Unknown Poets

J. Carl Brooksby reads you selections from his masterwork “My Favorite Poems (And Some that I Have Written)”. See the website.

Poems I Have Written

1. The Brooksby’s Lament

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2. Lookin’ Young

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3. My Mustache

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4. If I Get to Heaven

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5. The Old Barn

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6. Excitement (The CPA)

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7. Reality

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8. The Man Who Went to the Office Dry and Came Out Wet

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9. The Microwave (the Prostate Poem)

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10. Gatherin’ Desert Shrimp

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11. Lonesome

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12. The Family Proclamation

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13. Early Memories of Home

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14. Just Do It

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15. Advice for the Newlyweds

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16. Buying a Tie

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17. VerDon’s Life (Her Version)

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18. The High Priests’ Social

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19. Musings of an Old House

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20. Response from the House Across the Street

21. The Shearing Pen Chef

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22. My Summer of Leisure

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23. Being Eighty Eight

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Clean Humorous Poems

24. Sleepin’ at the Foot of the Bed (Author Unknown)

25. A Wyoming Cowboy Goes to Heaven (Author Unknown)

26. Arizona (Author Unknown)

27. Hassayampa (Charley Sierra)

28. Not for Me (Ruth Shook)

29. Life Gets Tijus, Don’t It? (Author Unknown)

30. Reincarnation (Author Unknown)

Not So Nice Humorous Poems

31. The Outhouse (Foote Hamblin)

32. The Three Bares (Author Unknown)

33. The Passing of the Pot (Beth Leigh)

34. The Cactus Patch (Author Unknown)

Serious Poems

35. Solitude (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)

36. Not in Vain (Emily Dickinson)

37. Be Strong (Maltbie Davenport)

38. Keep A Goin’ (Frank L. Stanton)

39. How Did You Die? (Edmund Vance Cook)

40. The Day is Done (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

41. A Psalm of Life (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

42. Home (Edgar A. Guest)

43. If (Rudyard Kipling)

44. Nobility (Alice Cary)

45. You (Edgar A. Guest)

46. Out Fishin’ (Author Unknown)

47. Thanksgiving Poem (Garrison Keillor)