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Luther Burbank Poems - Poems about Luther Burbank


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...
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Categories: luther 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; ...
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Categories: luther burbank, math
Form: Fibonacci



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

Book: Reflection on the Important Things