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Gatsby Poems - Poems about Gatsby

Finding home
...I think you can tell you love someone when, like Darcy and Lizzie, you let go of pride and prejudice, and what's left between you is pure and honest. I think you can tell you love someone when, like......

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Categories: gatsby, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Manhattan madness
...TS Eliot said, “Paris is a strong stimulant.” It is - but it has nothing on Manhattan. If Paris is a Café Crème espresso at a café-en-terrasse under the stars. Manhattan is a ‘Black Tie Bawls’ coc......

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Categories: gatsby, city, family, food, fun,
Form: Free verse



Doors
...I walk through the door of time Trying to get something’s off my mind The passage was clear and hope was flying in the air I felt my heart beating and my spirit searching for new meaning, I keep......

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Categories: gatsby, america, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member sharp weapons
...As we sailed the fast river of Rhône the steady sun bleached it a sparkling gold like the treasures of Caesar’s kingdom A curtain of fawn-silken tackle, shaded back the fervidly garish star sc......

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Categories: gatsby, boyfriend, river, romance, sun,
Form: Free verse
When You are in the mood
...When you are in the mood just do what you have to do and don’t get confused; when you are in the mood take a voyage to the moon and plant some poles in the directions of the water holes, and let the ......

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Categories: gatsby, america, appreciation, beach, beautiful,
Form: Narrative



Somebodys Child
...“I am somebody’s child, and I need attention, I am somebody’s child and I need affection, I am somebody’s child and I need love and devotion”, she murmured as she walked through the door. She wasn’t ......

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Categories: gatsby, cinderella, corruption, courage, integrity,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Inferiority Is Complex
...She had a masters degree, from Trinity Cambridge, was brokering deals in the city, with overheard talk re. financial leverage. Whilst I’d a diploma from a, “technical” college. A photographi......

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Categories: gatsby, angst, books, break up,
Form: Prose Poetry
Nowhere Landscape
...I San Clemente is always a nice place and tonight, she was something different. wound up by a creator’s hands to such beauty around how could one be indifferent? I vividly remember how bea......

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Categories: gatsby, beach, beautiful, beauty, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Getting It Speak Now
...Everyone’s getting covid. It’s become serious. And pretty much everyone here is triple vaxxed. 1 in 17 at Yale have it now. One of my roommates got it. I’m hoping I get it - if I get it - before ......

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Categories: gatsby, humor, school, teen,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Am Not Afraid
...You're never gonna see me in the corner As if I were afraid of my own shadow. The Shadow of Death is in the corner, Although the Grim Reaper is not looking so grim. He is not dressed in......

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Categories: gatsby, death, faith, god, life,
Form: Verse
Writer's Block
...I bottled up all of May and tossed it in the pool, Threw away my journal just to talk to the moon. They thought I'd lost my mind, but I was just being a fool, But July really beat the blues ......

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Categories: gatsby, appreciation, growth, solitude, writing,
Form: Rhyme
The Shining Gatsby
...Are you concerned about me? Yes I'm talking to you Daisy. What should be done with him? Our situation with Tom is very dim. I don't think thats true. You only loved me. Now stop with this vi......

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Categories: gatsby, art, loss, parody, wife,
Form: Rhyme
Illumination
...I am still here waiting Waiting for something to happen I am still here waiting Waiting for you to come Christmas has come and gone And here I am still waiting on the wet lawn Daybreak stares d......

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Categories: gatsby, courage, december, endurance, farewell,
Form: Narrative
The Polar Ice Cap
...What If There Was No Tomorrow? - The Polar Ice ‘Cap’ - this time it’s burnt and curled upon a new head. The sweet smoke of his sugarloaf effigy black as night, surrounded by a material red tri......

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Categories: gatsby, analogy,
Form: Free verse
The Green Light
...you are the green light to my Gatsby inspired dreams. You light up my world.......

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Categories: gatsby, color, dream, feelings, love,
Form: Free verse

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