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Best Gertie Poems

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Premium Member Gertie Reports Glory of Lazy Eye
Here he comes now the dance hall girls said.
When he comes to town, someone ends up dead.
We call him Lazy Eye, but he is a...

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Categories: gertie, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Gertrude -- Gertie -- Gertrude Stein
-- Re:  Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Rue de Fleurus #27, Paris --

What would Gertrude. What, Gertrude.What, Gertie?Have thought.Have thought what thought?Thought thought...

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Categories: gertie, art, dedication, devotion, history,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Resolute Stubborn Miss Gertie
Resolute opinionated Little Miss Gertie is barely thirty
But as set in her ways as a scorched shirt burned dirty.
We used to try to get her...

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Categories: gertie, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Teeter Totter
Teeter Totter            
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Categories: gertie, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Skaaaagway
Skagway, Alaska in the late 1890s was sure a rowdy place alright!
It was seethin' with humanity a-raisin' hell all through the day and night!
'Twas the...

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Categories: gertie, adventure, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Miscommunication
Gabby Gertie garbles news.
Lusty Lester likes his booze.
Twixt the two, tall tales are told.
Seven salacious stories sold.
Tearful Tillie hides her face.
Loathsome lies lead to disgrace.


one...

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Categories: gertie, funny,
Form: Alliteration
A Poem For Uncle Tony
He was born to Joseph and Delia near Galway Bay,
  He lived on a farm and there he would stay.
With Oliver, Kitty, Sean, Gertie...

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Categories: gertie, missing you,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Grandma Can Hold Her Liquor
Grandma Gertie knocked back more than a few
When, of a sudden, she heard herself 'moo' --
   I can hold my liquor!
  ...

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Categories: gertie, drink, farm, grandmother, horse,
Form: Limerick
The Fruit Man
Remember Beefsteak Charlies?
I don’t remember the last time I saw one
but every time I see one of those
tomatoes, I remember Charlie
my Charlie, the one who...

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Categories: gertie, appreciation, grandfather, imagery, journey,
Form: Free verse
Just My Type
qwerty gertie right hand gal
awkward and wayward old mail-order pal
with her long faded ribbons and carriage sublime
forever and always my partner in rhyme

flighty and flirty...

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Categories: gertie, dedication
Form: Ode
Premium Member Grandma Gertie's Thanksgiving Limericks
~ Grandma Gertie Keeps Her Word ~ 

  Grandma Gertie would always keep her word
  'Twas a sign of a righteous soul, she'd...

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Categories: gertie, bird, grandmother, thanksgiving day,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Isolation
Ralph lived on an island
Isolated and remote
His only companion was Gertrude, the goat
He didn't have many possessions
There wasn't the need
As long as he had a...

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Categories: gertie, 1st grade, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Is She a Bit Looney
Aunt Gertie changed her home to unicorn land
The day our uncle ran off with a mariachi band
Unicorn paintings peer at you from every wall
A unicorn...

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Categories: gertie, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What do you call him
What do you call him?
My cousin Gertie smirked a bit. You go first, she said.
We call him blue-eyed-stare-boy
I call him the weirdy cat.
He is a...

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Categories: gertie, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member what do you call him
What do you call him?
My cousin Gertie smirked a bit. You go first, she said.
We call him blue-eyed-stare-boy
I call him the weirdy cat.
He is a...

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Categories: gertie, life,
Form: Free verse

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