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Gaston Poems - Poems about Gaston

Premium MemberEcho from the Past

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The poetic image is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes.
– Gaston Bachelard

If memories invade ...
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Categories: gaston, memory, mirror,
Form: Nonet

Premium MemberGo Bills

...There is a sadness in Buffalo,
that will always be felt inside.
The pain of four Superbowl losses,
just tears your heart and pride.

Jim Kelly, and the boys did all that
they could do. Four Sup...
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Categories: gaston, sports,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberHappy Birthday Briana

...Briana it's so hard to think, you were so young. 
Grown up, a young lady now, where has the time gone?
Your Success, allowed you to fly around the world.
So beautiful and smart, an Executive girl....
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Categories: gaston, birthday, niece,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHappy and Joyous Birthday To Elena

...Elena's cooking is so much desired.
A wonderful chef, she is to admire.
Her Lasagna is all our favorite.
You want to eat slow, and just savor it.
Italian dishes are her Specialty.
Marinara sauce...
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Categories: gaston, birthday,
Form: Rhyme

GASTON GLOCK THE GUNSMITH GOES HOME

...??????GASTON GLOCK THE GUNSMITH GOES HOME??????
 
Gaston Glock, the genius gunsmith,
The gun guy behind mysterious myth
And the groundbreaking Glock handgun,
Produced the glock gun but now gone....
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Categories: gaston, 1st grade,
Form: Alliteration



Premium MemberCajun Night Before Christmas

...As promised to Sara Baker... here is the Night Before Christmas, 
Cajun style ~ by James Rice
                      ~          ~           ~          ~

Twas the night before Christmas an'...
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Categories: gaston, christmas,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTo My Father

...My last words to you were, "I love you."  Those were your last words to me
on the phone. You were in Miami. The night we spoke you were rushed to the hospital. Your life was no more. The Angels carr...
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Categories: gaston, fate, father, love,
Form: Rhyme

The Best of the Best

...the greatest lumberjack

     Rufus the Lumberjack

   the greatest hunter

    Jo Lion Guinea Pig

  THE BIGGEST FISHERMAN

    Mr of the hooks

    THE GREATEST VOCALIST

    Paulinho...
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Categories: gaston, allegory, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member21 Women

...When the American flag waved bravely, for women it did not FURL.
However, many bold and determined women have changed the WORLD.

I am a proud bother of 8 sisters;
Two of whom are older and 6 are...
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Categories: gaston, women,
Form: Ode

Premium MemberThe Road To the Super Bowl

...The Vikings and Bills, two teams that
share a feat, four trips to the Super
Bowl all ending in defeat.

A feeling of such sadness, that's
hard to put in words, creating deep
emotions, that are ...
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Categories: gaston, appreciation, devotion, football, hope,
Form: Rhyme

The Reunion

...The sixty-year reunion
of the class of '55
was quite a celebration
for the ones who had survived...

First came prissy Pomeroy-
then Milford, Meeks, and Moody
who like old crows, perched and c...
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Categories: gaston, age, character, growth, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberUnforgettables From My Youth-F

...I remember it well, and it's such a joy to tell of the fun                                                                                                
we had playing with toy cars and trucks in ...
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Categories: gaston, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOscar-Ku 31 -Gigi

...bon vivant Gaston
precocious carefree Gigi. . .
courtesan or wife







Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved.
Published 2018 in "Hollywood Haiku" via wattpad.com...
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Categories: gaston, film, french, friendship, girl,
Form: Haiku

Madame Caillaux, Part 3 of 7

...(The writer Bourget is discussing the murder of
his friend, Gaston Calmette.  Sixte is the hero of
one of Bourget's novels.  Proust, another novelist,
lived in the street where the murder occurred...
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Categories: gaston, history,
Form: Rhyme

Madame Caillaux, Part 2 of 7

...(Calmette, the editor of "Le Figaro" newspaper,
is ending his chat with his friend, Burget, as he
returns to his office.  The "other Lipps" refers to
the Brasserie Lipps, a fashionable Paris resta...
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Categories: gaston, history,
Form: Rhyme

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