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Burbs Poems - Poems about Burbs


Premium Member The Burbs Are Not Scary At All
I wrote this one after watching the miniseries “The Pacific.” THE BURBS AREN’T SCARY AT ALL Scarier the skeletons sitting in the suburbs or the ones being dug out of graves… the ones in the foxhole, that you must brave. It’s all a graveyard, a horror movie…it’s war. The setup couldn’t be more frightening. The enemy was glad to prepare it for you. Ghosts are...

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Categories: burbs, war,
Form: Free verse
In the Anywhere Burbs
Here in suburbia - anywhere, it's easy to be almost happy. We have time and permission to talk to neighbors, wave at strangers as we stroll our leafy streets, ...

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Categories: burbs, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Grey Times In the Burbs
A paltry morning, bare of leaf, grey as a goose. Hours puddle between the shallow bones of a decaying season. Just enough gas to get me there The nozzle gulps as if it were drinking not pumping. I ponder on the fact that all gas stations in Ohio are built inside a wind-tunnel. The boxed donuts are an impulsive afterthought. I scold myself… am I that that grey that I must...

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Categories: burbs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Burbs Birthed Beauty
A BEAUTY BORN OF THE ‘BURBS I showed her the steamier and seedy side A place where the desperate have tried, cried and died Young Ms. Suburbs took to it’s derelict charm As we’d stroll downtown with arms tangled in arm She had never been confronted by the pitiful and the poor before They never showed up at her mahogany...

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Categories: burbs, angst, urban, beauty, beauty,
Form: Italian Sonnet
A Beauty Born of the Burbs Yet More Verbiage By a Poetic Genius
A BEAUTY BORN OF THE ‘BURBS I showed her the steamier and seedy side A place where the desperate have tried, cried and died Young Ms. Suburbs took to it’s derelict charm As we’d stroll downtown with arms tangled in arm She had never been confronted by the pitiful and the poor before They never showed up at her mahogany...

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Categories: burbs, angst, beauty, beauty,
Form: Quatrain



A Beauty Born of Burbs
A BEAUTY BORN OF THE ‘BURBS I showed her the steamier and seedy side A place where the desperate have tried, cried and died Young Ms. Suburbs took to it’s derelict charm As we’d stroll downtown with arms tangled in arm She had never been confronted by the pitiful and the poor before They never showed up at her mahogany...

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Categories: burbs, angst, beauty, beauty,
Form: Quintain (English)
A Beauty Born of the Burbs
A BEAUTY BORN OF THE ‘BURBS I showed her the steamier and seedier side A place where the desperate have tried, cried and died Young Ms. Suburbs took to it’s derelict charm As we’d stroll downtown with arms tangled in arm She had never been confronted by the pitiful and the poor before They never showed up at her mahogany...

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Categories: burbs, angstbeauty, beauty,
Form: Quintain (English)
A Beauty Born of the Burbs
A BEAUTY BORN OF THE ‘BURBS I showed her the steamier and seedy side A place where the desperate have tried, cried and died Young Ms. Suburbs took to it’s derelict charm As we’d stroll downtown with arms tangled in arm She had never been confronted by the pitiful and the poor before They never showed up at her mahogany...

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Categories: burbs, angstbeauty, beauty,
Form: Quatrain

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