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Premium Member George Gershwin Terzanelle
When you’re longing for someone to watch over you
think about building a stairway to paradise
even if it means you must dance alone with you.

It may feel hard for your heart to sing, soul to rise
It may seem like you got plenty of nutting,
no matter, let...

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Categories: gershwin, bereavement, death, death of
Form: Terzanelle
Gershwin
Exciting tunes
    of a city
  captured in music
Dance the mental dance
    we have know
         electric  lights appear in 
       our mind
  Shining...

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Categories: gershwin, imagination, music
Form: Free verse
Gershwin
Exciting visions
  of the urban scene
captured in music
    Joyous notes
that is Gershwin
   My father passed away 4 years ago
He used to thrill us with his piano 
   he played the jazz master's work 
miss the man so...

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Categories: gershwin, death, music, political,
Form: Blank verse

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Rhapsody On a Theme By Gershwin
The train to Boston goes clonkity dong, clonkity ding,
and ever the handy hack Gershwin takes up
the rhythm and makes it sing.
Rhapsodic rhapsodies in jazz mode
stomp among the carriage silverware and glasses,
makes them tink, jitter and chatter
to the shoe shined suits
that doze along to the whitling...

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Categories: gershwin, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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