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This TabStart page offers a curated collection of websites that present poems about brothers who fight with each other. Oftentimes brothers who fight with and for each other in the early years of childhood develop a life-long bond. There is majestic verse in the pages below by writers such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Levine, Gregory Orr, and Arthur Rimbaud.
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"A Litany" - a Poem about Brothers by Gregory Orr - The Academy of American Poets presents "A Litany" by Gregory Orr, a dark poem that recalls a story of one brother shooting another
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Cesar Vallejo's "To My Brother Miguel in memoriam" - Brothers Who Fight - The Academy of American Poets presents Cesar Vallejo's "To My Brother Miguel in memoriam." In the sad verse here the poem's narrator recalls childhood memories in which he and his brother fought and played together.
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"Thy Brother's Blood" - a Poem by Jones Very - The Academy of American Poets presents this bitter verse in which the narrator scorns and curses his brother. In this instance "brother" is a stand in for all of humanity.
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"Vagabonds" - a Poem about Brothers Who Fight by Arthur Rimbaud - This prose poem by the brilliant symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud paints a portrait of life with his "brother" in which they struggle and fight yet return to each other.
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"You Can Have It" - a Poem about the Bond of Brotherhood by Philip Levine - The Poetry Foundation presents Philip Levine's "You Can Have It," which explores the bond between two hard working brothers over a lifetime.
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"What Work Is" - a Poem about Appreciating a Brother by Philip Levine - The University of Carolina's Internet Poetry Archive presents Philip Levine's gorgeous poem "What Work Is." In the verse here the narrator looks back on a day of waiting for work in the rain as a day laborer with his brother. The narrator wonders why he didn't let his brother know how much he appreciated him.
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"I Genitori Perduti" ("Lost Parents") - a Poem about Brothers - The National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation presents Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "I Genitori Perduti," in which the narrator sees white doves in a park and imagines them as his dear brothers whom he describes individually.