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Burbank Poems - Poems about Burbank

I AM POTATO

...

I have a skin, brown tan melolin
Inside of me is water, energy
I have nodes from which buds are formed
I am shapeN like a football, a peanut, a fat lumpy carrot
I may develop sprouting, buds,...

Categories: burbank, analogy, appreciation, character, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Bad At Being Bad

...In Birmingham I tried a scam,
involving some velvet and ham.
It appears I am damned.
Wound up in the slam.

I tried a hustle one night in Brussels.
But all I could rustle,
was just enough musc...

Categories: burbank, corruption,
Form: Rhyme

L A

...L.A.
.
They say the city of angels
Is run by demons
Like many other cities
But I’m not sure
Riding my Harley
Through Hollywood and Vine
I see the signs
But still have Santa Monica still on m...

Categories: burbank, america, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Rich Lady

...A very rich lady from Burbank,
Was in a canoe when it sank,
Her fur and diamonds got lost
In the watery impost,
As she dog-paddled her way to the bank....

Categories: burbank, funny,
Form: Limerick

Shasta Daisy Mark Ii

...One
plant,
Shasta
Daisy, owns
such easy beauty—
belies it's enduring nature. 

Needs no coddling; infiltrates, sprouts boldly year on year.

Tall, erect, flaunts pure white petals around a g...

Categories: burbank, beauty, math, nature,
Form: Fibonacci

Biology

...The
enduring
Shasta daisy—
Easy to grow,
Invasively spreads in the 
garden. 

With little or no encouragement 
it will take
over whole plots. Standing tall, 
flaunting a pure white flower; ...

Categories: burbank, math
Form: Fibonacci

Debbie Reynolds

...
In 1932, on April Fools’ Day,
you entered this world, and are still with us today.
Your original first names were Mary Frances.
Your birthplace was the city of El Paso, Texas.
In Burbank, Ca...

Categories: burbank, dedication,
Form: Rhyme

My Final Meal

...If I were a prisoner on death row
just hours away from execution
I would NOT order a meal of calamari with ratatouille,
filet mignon with truffles and Strawberry Sherbet.

I would reject a plate...

Categories: burbank, funny
Form: Free verse

The Great Burbank Driftwood Scare

...I'd like to submit to you this little ditty,
About some of Burbanks local history,
Called the great Burbank driftwood scare,
I was down at the river one fine sunny day,
Picking up driftwood where...

Categories: burbank, funny,
Form: Ballad

Power of the Mind

...Amazing spark 
Linear grace
Of inspiring thought
Breezing through 
Steady pace
Striking parameters
Ascending, descending, percolating
Rhythm of congruence
Brilliant mind
Of a lovely heart
E...

Categories: burbank, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Sebastopol - Apple Blossom Weekend

...The First Methodist Church,
with its bold wooden steeple,
burnt to the ground in 1914,
for preaching prohibition.
The good folks of Sebastopol
weren’t having any of that.
Today the Apple Blosso...

Categories: burbank, funny, history, life, music,
Form: Free verse