Best Gertrude Poems

-- 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 driving,forward,remorselessly.Remorseless Remorse? Forward.Never reverse;no reverse.No.No remorse.
Remorseless,spurning reverse,seated.High!Seated high in Auntie.Then in Godiva seated. Looming.Enormous.
Looming enormous.Unsinister presence. Certain presence.Definite.Definitely not sinister....

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do do
Gertrude Stein...

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Gertrude Bangle

1895-1914

By name I was called Trudy.

When living.

Dear friends of the living,

Do you know Whittier town

Is a very haunted town?

Do you know my ghost still walks

Still silently steps by you?

Oblivious you?

Here in the stalking shade of the myrtles?

Here in the dark shadows of the walnuts?

I...

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There was a young lass from Gertrude 
    Who just loved to dance in the nude
           But she had two left feet
          She...

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Are those thoughts you put in
  what I once valued more

Or would what I put out
  be the end winning score

Did I need your ears
  for my voice to become whole

Or would I rather them deafened
  words deep in my soul

In...

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Aunt Gertrude

When Aunt Gertrude, comes by the house
I want to run away

She’s very large and burps a lot
And wears a lot of gray

Her hairy brows go up and down
When she makes funny looks

And I can tell, she has a smell
Of old and musty books

She squeezes...

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New Years began this year
Amid global poisoning

Gertrudes’s skirt began to burn
At the edges

Sirens blared, and some attempt
At presidential communication
Seemed comical

Leaping to my sister from being
Immolated....... prevented the President's
Message connecting

I may seem slow at this verse

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Gertrude
Was Rude

   And Mean
Caused Scene 

 Would Yell
  Raise Hell
    
  She Sat
 With Bat

  In Yard
Like Guard 

One Friend 
 Til’ End
 
   Her Dog
Named Frog 






12-16-2020
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The President of the United States called last night,
he spoke most curtly, demanding to know her middle name.
She sent him packing with a stinging rebuke.
Her middle name is Gertrude;
that secret she will take to her grave.

Powerful people have always sought her out. 
Edison visited in...

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While Gertrude Recovers

By Elton Camp

Gertrude had been in the hospital a week
To her husband the doctor sternly did speak

“It’s essential you wife not get out of bed,
So be certain that she doesn’t,” the doc said

George assured him that he would comply
That proper care he would...

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Gertrude Besamer was a bunny with style, flair, and class.
She entered Marla’s Tearoom with a bit of jazzy sass.
Marla complimented her on her barrette made of glass.
And her well-padded bustle which enhanced her pretty a…....

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She is known as Dotty,
her actual name is Gertrude,
that secret she will take to her grave.

Powerful people have always sought her out.
Edison visited in the summer months,
he proposed many times,
but a man that would electrocute an elephant
just to make a point
could never have turned her...

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