Dobie Poems - Poems about Dobie

Do We Ask the Beatnik To Leave

...Lee is a beatnik all right, the seventy year olds agreed
he was lying in the grass, playing bongos next to his weed
as chill as we had ever seen Maynard on Dobie Gillis too
We was singing a weird ...

Categories: dobie, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Nameless Dobie Shepherd

...nameless dobie shepherd 
shot ten times with a bb gun
just because he wanted food

his owners thew him in the 
woods when he was eight months 
old, but alas, they underestimated 
his will to s...

Categories: dobie, beautiful, dog,
Form: Free verse

O, For the Shows

...The Honeymooners
  Burns & Allen
Mister Ed, Mork & Mindy
  My Favorite Martian, My Three Sons

Sergeant Bilko, Dobie Gillis
  O, for the shows that used to thrill us
You Bet Your Life, the Jac...

Categories: dobie, celebrity, fun, funny, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

San Francisco 1968

...Sickening sweet smell of marijuana
A young guy with a super grin playing bongos
I had never seen that in real life, just on Dobie Gillis.

Come on up! My free-minded cousin said.
There were beds...

Categories: dobie, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative

Now That Was Entertainment

...Richard Burton
       was uncertain
     if Liz Taylor cried

     Fred Astaire
       liked Ginger Rogers'
     graceful derriere

     Ricky Ricardo
       said 'I Love Lucy'
     Those t...

Categories: dobie, celebrity, film, fun, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

The Silent Ones

...Quick clay
A dog sent in
Looking for survivors
Given the last hug?
Hunting for people
Silent in quick clay

In a delivery room
She was real and she was perfect
Stillborn
A song played in th...

Categories: dobie, death, friendship love, fun,
Form: Free verse

His Favourite Song

...Was his theme song to his life story
An old record...from present to history
A soundtrack
To any sidetrack...on his block
To his black...and back from his black

He knew the words
As though he...

Categories: dobie, fathers day,
Form: Free verse

Learn To Dance

...Got a party coming up
I need to learn some moves
so I listened to the all-time greats
for tips on how to groove.
These music legends from times past
should know the moves to use
but what they s...

Categories: dobie, humor,
Form: Light Verse

Star Whores

...Obi Wan Kenobi
Said “dooby do be dobie”
He wasn’t one but nearly two
And didn’t know just what to do
In his brownie, Kenobi robe(y)...

Categories: dobie, funny, science fiction,
Form: Limerick