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Gautier Poems - Poems about Gautier

The Forgotten Bards: Song of the Classical Minstrels

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Forever extinct seems the age of classical poetry,
With all its cheers from caves, cottages, marble domes and temples,

When now a country honors not classical bards:
O Hugh MacDiarmid, Petrarc...
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Categories: gautier, allusion, appreciation, betrayal, emotions,
Form: Ode

Premium MemberFoolish Whims Scatter

...Foolish whims scatter

I played at life, but life played me harder,
Lived bet to debt, in life's Russian roulette
I place a wager, speed into danger
My foolish whims, scatter in mistral winds
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Categories: gautier, confusion, fate, future, lost,
Form: Verse



Premium MemberPumpkin Winds

...Pumpkin winds

Your amber-umber eyes, penetrate me
as saffron sun sets on faces, ashen
Your suspicious mind raves with jealousy
as pumpkin winds chill our summers passion

For contest Bite siz...
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Categories: gautier, autumn, break up, farewell,
Form: Verse

Gold Diggers In Danger

...I saw two gold diggers chasing  by dangerous dogs. 
Hidden behind the hindu golden statues of gods.
Screaming for help, some people came to help them, 
One dog caught one gold digger and bitten he...
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Categories: gautier, 12th grade, dog, extended
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberSing Anyway

...Though skies are dark and dreary,
The songbirds’ trills are cheery,
encouraging me today
to feel inspired and sing anyway!

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March 23, 2022
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Categories: gautier, bird, inspiration, weather,
Form: Verse



Look At the Bright Side

...This creature we are, flesh, spirit, and mind.
And with our brain, a curious kind.

We want a good job and a lovely mate.
The life that we get will come down to fate.

We ride the trolley every...
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Categories: gautier, life,
Form: Rhyme

I Have My Reasons

...I HAVE MY REASONS

You’ve given me six lines, no more,
To list the things I love you for.
It’s not much time, you must agree,
To tell you what you mean to me.
And so, I’d bette...
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Categories: gautier, humorous, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Mother's Pride

...The finest voice on the Broadway stage
Cannot compete with a mother’s squawl
When her son catches the winning ball,
Sending the winning team on a rampage,
Causing the losing team to feel o...
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Categories: gautier, mother son, pride, sports,
Form: Quintilla

Sage Advice

...A wise old man once said to me
Be careful how you spend your days
Care not that riches pass you by
Discard all thoughts of wicked ways.
Ere long, your walk in life will cease;
Find happiness in ...
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Categories: gautier, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Robin's Song

...I wake to the soft sounds of rain tapping my window.
For several days hovering clouds have stolen the sun,
And I am thinking they portend sorrow lying ahead.
I hear a robin singing, so rare when t...
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Categories: gautier, bird, morning, perspective, song,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberMuddy Boots

...I was never particularly proud
Hearing Mother yelling “For cryin’ out loud!
I have just mopped the floor,
Before you opened the door
Muddy boots in the house are not allowed!”


May 28, 2021
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Categories: gautier, boy, house, mother,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberWhitewater Rafting

...Purple shadows drift beneath the gray sky forge
Mists dipping into verdant valleys like quicksilver
Skimming the rapids where we hurtle downriver
Through seething whitewater of New River gorge
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Categories: gautier, adventure, water,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberCharming, My Dear

...A zillion ways, I think, to charm
Tiny kittens will always me disarm
Children licking on an ice cream cone
An old man sitting on a bench alone
I do not know what charms you, dear
This poem won’t...
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Categories: gautier, feelings, humorous,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberHummingbirds

...hummingbirds arrive
on summer wings aflutter
ruby breasts glist'ning

courageous fellows
long slender beaks are probing
red flower feeder


May 15, 2021
for "Surpr...
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Categories: gautier, bird, summer,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberMagical

...magical moment 
brook babbles contentedly 
duckling swim lessons


THIRD PLACE WINNER
April, 2021
Single Haiku Contest
Sponsored by Line Gautier

HONORABLE MENTION
Brevity Haiku Contest on...
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Categories: gautier, nature, spring, water,
Form: Haiku

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