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Best Burbs Poems

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Breakfast With the Mafia
breakfast with the mafia
an early burbs Thursday
we watch them through the window
trying to figure out what they're saying
 
eating their new york bagels
while they plan...

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© Jo Bien  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: burbs, funny
Form: Verse



Summers Everlasting
Sand in sheets
scuffing skin and reminding 
last nights attire reaks like bonfire
 a hundred days like this 
   a sea of endless laughs...

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Categories: burbs, nostalgia
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Beautiful People
Spent some time today amongst the beautiful people

In the downtown area of the big city

Everybody rushing about oblivious to their surroundings

Intent on doing what they...

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Categories: burbs, city, people,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Under and Over
down comforter
down under 
under the covers
under the bed
bed the man
bed room
room for more
room for rent
rent a u haul
rent a house
house in the burbs
house of the...

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Categories: burbs, fear, universe,
Form: Blitz
Lisa and Herb
This is the story of Lisa & Herb
A young loving pair who lived in the burbs
Fresh cod she did cook
Forgot to take out the hook
Pierced...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: burbs, humorous,
Form: Limerick



A Healthy Body and Soul
Watching television can make some couch potatoes
Too much sitting down can be fatal

A little sleep a little slumber
Is not as cool as a cucumber

More dark...

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© Lara Wash  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: burbs, health, life, water,
Form: Verse
A Bit of Nonsense
Here is total nonsense in a verse,
It's about the scourge of the burbs,
A silly tale of Lady Bonkerley,
A femme always dressed in Regency,
Draping clothes her...

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Categories: burbs, allusion, dance, fantasy, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Remember That I Loved You
*Edited for Length and Content*

Remember that I loved you
while we went riding 
through the ‘burbs, 
looking at houses we couldn’t afford, 
caught up in your...

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© Joy Nicole  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: burbs, anger, break up, for
Form: Dramatic Verse
Medicinal Criminal
You hold my hand
Tears stream, a warm compress placed upon my pale face
Increasing pain, so much fear my heart begins to race
Curled in my own...

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Categories: burbs, conflict, confusion, freedom, health,
Form: Rhyme
Mapsx
Oogeling ouggulluurzz,

Fidgety fogging verse!

Peoples are nodding to their words,

beats aren't so bumpy
so they blotter on burbs...

Seasoning at saunter,

as he wander wanders-

bottoming the plotter who thinks...

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Categories: burbs, atheist, brother, city, class,
Form: Light Verse
Snow In the Suburbs
A cheap imitation toy
     Next a deep colored strewn rose
     In a house in the 'burbs
 ...

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Categories: burbs, abuse, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Hi, Dro
each thing living on
Murdth ‘sorbs water chiefly wet
backards of arid-
zona an’ the holmby hills’ 
chlorine romp ponds drawing the

scant as blue blood for
the thirsty altar...

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© H Mantel  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: burbs, satire, water, water,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Remembering the 1980's
Barbie, Atari, He-man 
Batman, She-Ra, Ronald Reagan
Indiana Jones, and landline phones
The Dark Crystal and around 5.2 billion people 
Andre the Giant’s Honeycomb commercial 
Rainbow Brite,...

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© G. Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: burbs, nostalgia, remember,
Form: I do not know?
Why Can'T I Find My Love
7:25am 19April2014

 Where is the love I seek where can love be 
Across the road or up the street or maybe over on bee 

Outside...

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Categories: burbs, love, , sweet love,
Form: Rhyme
Summer Storms
A dear friend says I'm brave to go it solo in the city…
she has a husband - seven kids - two dogs - and a...

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Categories: burbs, city, summer,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs