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Burnett Poems - Poems about Burnett

Premium Member Perfection
...“Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow." – Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden Red roses rambling over an old sandstone wall…perfect.......

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Categories: burnett, nature, rose,
Form: Monoku
Who Remember the Good Ole Days
...Only the Real OG's will remember. All of these old movies are from back in the day. Some of you will remember and some of you won't have a clue of what I am talking about. Let's go down memory la......

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Categories: burnett, change, growing up, life,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Geranium
... “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”– Frances Hodgson Burnett Though I’m unable to bear the coldest days, My heart is eager when they put me ......

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Categories: burnett, appreciation, autumn, beautiful, flower,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Carol Burnett
...Carol Burnett hosted a comedy show And every week when it was time to go A tug on her earlobe meant 'hi' to her grandmother. Surely one earlobe is now longer than the other.......

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Categories: burnett, humor,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Let Me Entertain You
...vaudeville stepped off the stage and leapt into the living room with hot topic-tuned antenna views shy ventriloquists turned from radio to television with a vision to be seen juggling with e......

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Categories: burnett, children, humor, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse



Dazed
...Charlie’s Angels, Starsky and Hutch, Welcome Back Cotter, The Brady Bunch. I think I watched TV too much! Columbo, The Partridge Family, Lucille Ball, I must confess I viewed them ......

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Categories: burnett, growing up, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Engraved In Black and White
...The blind fiddler plays enrapt in his tune; His wife sits warm in the melody of a strange hearth; Their baby child does not cry; hunger is a constant song; The eldest son stands grippe......

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Categories: burnett, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Having Fun Is Key For Me
...I have never stopped being in touch with childlike me So there is no end to the happy person I can be. I dance in delight although a bit slower now I paint goblins, witches, dragons, even a cow. ......

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Categories: burnett, self,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Acknowledgements
...1. John Desmond Patrick Keegan 2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 3. Sally Aline Mae Beller 4. Charles Edward A. Berry 5. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce 6. Béla Ferenc Dezso Blaskó 7. Joh......

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Categories: burnett, appreciation, dedication, inspiration,
Form: List
Lyle Waggoner
...He starred in 'Wonder Woman' as Steve Trevor. Sadly, he passed away and he's gone forever. He guest-starred in 'Charlie's Angels' and 'The Love Boat'. He also guest-starred in 'Happy Days' and 'Mu......

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Categories: burnett, celebrity, death, goodbye, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
When Pigs Fly
...When Pigs Fly by Michael R. Burch On the Trail of Tears, my Cherokee brothers, why hang your heads? Why shame your mothers? Laugh wildly instead! We will soon be dead. When we lie in our ......

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Categories: burnett, discrimination, evil, march, murder,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Harvey Korman Thinking Aloud
...How about Carol wears the curtain rods? That would be hysterical. No one else got it. But I am Harvey Korman and I have some say. Most popular episode in history. Even Vicky is not as popular ......

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Categories: burnett, tribute,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Carol
...Comedian Carol Burnett had a variety show I'll never forget. She gave us much laughter and cheer, sometimes just by pulling her ear. ... CayCay March 28, 2019......

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Categories: burnett, appreciation, career, celebrity, humor,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Carol Burnett
... Oh, that Carol Burnett, with eyes and expressions, you'll not forget, tugging her left ear after each show, saying "Grandma, I love you so". ......

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Categories: burnett, humor,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Funny Lady of the 1960s
...Hollywood’s Lucille Ball, loved by many, had an enormously profound effect on me. She was funny and kind and goofy, and so wonderful, she lit up my 1960’s TV. My favorite show of hundreds of......

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Categories: burnett, nostalgia,
Form: Marsiya

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