GATSBY
...GATSBY*
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Gatsby’s my name, character of Fitzgerald fame.
Nick saw through the façade and my game.
I partied and danced through the night,
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Categories:
f. scott fitzgerald, 12th grade, humor,
Form: Limerick
WE SEE LONDON DAY 4
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After I woke up and went out to our little balcony to write…
a ladybug landed on my computer and decided there to stay
As she traversed the perimeter of my computer…
I knew it was going to be gr...
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Categories:
f. scott fitzgerald, travel,
Form: Rhyme
josephines place
...It was the summer of 2014, I was just about to turn 13, spending June of summer vacation with my Grandmère, in Paris. Tonight, we’re at a fundraising benefit for African relief (it’s always *somethin...
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Categories:
f. scott fitzgerald, grandmother, humor, paris, writing,
Form: Free verse
The Truth Potion
...Quote from the original translation
Awake! for the morning in the bowl of night,
has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight,
Lo! the hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan’s Tur...
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Categories:
f. scott fitzgerald, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rubaiyat
The Dilettante Diaries: the Divine Feminine - a Tale of Seduction
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“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 the Cloths of Heaven,” by W.B. Yeats
“I lo...
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Categories:
f. scott fitzgerald, friendship, fun, happiness, journey,
Form: Romanticism
The Paths We Choose
...The Paths We Choose
by Edmund Siejka
When I was a young writer
I read all the greats
Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Yeats, James Joyce
And so on
I could write like them I said
So I felt...
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Categories:
f. scott fitzgerald, life,
Form: Narrative
Gravitational Whims
... ( "Write the truest sentence you know." - F. Scott Fitzgerald )
Variant plurals suffering suffixation's whims;
fly-tomatoes and the valley boo-mouse,
when the sheep alumnus in a mo...
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Categories:
f. scott fitzgerald, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Some Sun Drunk Day He Said
...Emotions war against sense,
And his mind remains
A pot pourri,
And thoughts in his head
When he lies in his bed
Would make Dorian Gray
Appear pristine.
He wishes to moralize
On a corrupt exam...
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Categories:
f. scott fitzgerald, art, corruption, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse
Bruccoli
...Working with the
great man,
larger than life,
could be like living
in Los Angeles;
you might have
a nice house
on a quiet street
with good neighbors,
but you knew
at any time,
there cou...
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Categories:
f. scott fitzgerald, remember, work,
Form: Free verse
Big, Blonde Beauties
...Big, blonde beauties
so beautiful and so pretty,
such girls of high class
drinking from glasses,
filled with the best champagne;
and smoking their fine cigarettes,
while gossiping their fine stories
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Categories:
f. scott fitzgerald, anger, beauty, feelings, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
It's a Nineteen-Twenties Song
...It’s a Nineteen-Twenties tune—forgive me, I was born too soon,
Going to fake it anyway, and bring back yesterday.
Inka-dinka-do, that old soft shoe—and I danced with Georgia Brown.
Muskrat rag—“ca...
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Categories:
f. scott fitzgerald, historysweet, sweet,
Form: Lyric
It's a Nineteen-Twenties Song
...It’s a Nineteen-Twenties tune—forgive me, I was born too soon,
Going to fake it anyway, and bring back yesterday.
Inka-dinka-do, that old soft shoe—and I danced with Georgia Brown.
Muskrat rag—“ca...
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Categories:
f. scott fitzgerald, historysweet, sweet,
Form: Verse