Best Gershwin Poems
George Gershwin TerzanelleWhen 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
GershwinExciting 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
GershwinExciting 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
Rhapsody On a Theme By GershwinThe 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