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Best Gatsby Poems

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Premium Member 'steak Or Polony Gatsby'
a gatsby roll sliced open
then add some salad
lettuce and tomatoes 
steak or polony
add sauce of your choice
cut in two
eat!!




Contest Name : Fast Food Epulaeryu
Date ...

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Categories: gatsby, food
Form: Epulaeryu



Premium Member The Dilettante Diaries: the Divine Feminine - a Tale of Seduction
“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
–“He Wishes for...

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Categories: gatsby, friendship, fun, happiness, journey,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member The Dilettante Diaries: Goin' Gangsta On the Road To the Lotus Eaters At Loon Junction
“Pictures could not be accessories to the story – evidence – they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a...

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Categories: gatsby, cool, courage, fun, humorous,
Form: Free verse
The Human Condition
The absurdity of the human condition:
The only condition we try to make sense of,
Make reasonable,
Sanitized,
Certain,
Familiar,
When we know we can’t.

But still we love our categories,
As if...

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© Nick Ruff  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gatsby, angst, death, deep, humanity,
Form: Free verse
The Picnic
The little pygmy named Pixie Poggly was quirky queenly quaintly and quickly, but rarely ever really did much can't you see.

Until one day, a raunchy...

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Categories: gatsby, adventure, celebration, confusion, fantasy,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member Passing An April Morning
It is morning in the middle hours
of my leisure.
I am reading The Great Gatsby,
something I have overlooked 
for all this time.

There is something surreptitious 
about...

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© Bill Yates  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gatsby, april, books, memory,
Form: Free verse
A Reader Asks
A Reader Asks

Of the books that you’ve read
Which ones were the best?
Which ones caught your fancy?
Which ones passed your test?
Which ones made you laugh?
Which ones...

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Categories: gatsby, books,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wayfare Manor
In a peculiar puny town nestled in western Massachusetts,
There lives an enchanted mansion in the Wilbraham woods,
Hidden in the hills away from the eastern city's...

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Categories: gatsby, adventure, fairy, fantasy, time,
Form: Rhyme
If We Were Both In Paris
If we were both in Paris
We on different time zones
Always coming and goin
I’m on this lonely balcony
Cigar smoke blowin
I’m as lonely as Gatsby
Cloaked in white...

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Categories: gatsby, absence, adventure, beautiful, desire,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member I Am Not Afraid
You're never gonna see me in the corner
As if I were afraid of my own shadow.

The Shadow of Death is in the corner,
Although the Grim...

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Categories: gatsby, death, faith, god, life,
Form: Verse
Anachronistic Eulogy
Look out into the darkness and hear the remnants of cities. 
The faint, ghostly echo of music wafting through the air, carried by the smell...

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Categories: gatsby, memory, nostalgia,
Form: I do not know?
The Polar Ice Cap
What If There Was No Tomorrow? - The Polar Ice ‘Cap’

- this time it’s burnt and curled upon a new head. The 
sweet smoke of...

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Categories: gatsby, analogy,
Form: Free verse
World of Letters
Alphabet amazes me
Being 26 characters long
Creating adventures
Deciding the fate of heroes
Eyes reading stories of the past
Forgetting the truth behind words
Gatsby telling lies
Hamlet’s revenge
I can even...

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Categories: gatsby, death, symbolism, war, world,
Form: ABC
Read This Fast!
So we’re going on a picnic with the pygmy, Pixie Poggly, being the quirky queenly 
quaintly quickly person she is and her friend a raunchy...

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Categories: gatsby, adventure, animals, confusion, funny,
Form: Alliteration
A Happy Poem, We'Ll See! a Quiz Maybe
Happy , there was a time when I was happy,
I am not going to make this sappy,
But I have to write what comes to mind,
And...

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Categories: gatsby, confusion, friendship, funny, happiness,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs