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Gershwin Poems - Poems about Gershwin

Premium Member Wrote You A Song
...Wrote you a song today to say I love you with music -- a lot of hits were written that way about a special person in a composer's life -- Wrote you a song today hoping you will sing alo......

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Categories: gershwin, feelings, love, marriage, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Lovingly Remember Summer
... I Lovingly Remember Summer I remember the golden as tea, warmth from the tangerine sun, on my young, tanned back. I remember swimming in the cool lake and the ......

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Categories: gershwin, beach, beautiful, boat, me,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Measure Of Time
...Found a feather today -- a pen of the great, soaring past, of creative thoughts yielding dips immortal...indelible on time were the hands of a Poe and Mozart for me, the world stopped aft......

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Categories: gershwin, art, history, meaningful, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Love You, Daddy
...I Love You, Daddy ( Previous title has been changed!) Golly! I do miss Daddy and the luxury of the Cadillac Fleetwod Car Series! My Dad would only buy these till he di......

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Categories: gershwin, appreciation, childhood, father daughter,
Form: Prose Poetry
Rhapsody On a Theme By Gershwin
...The train to Boston goes clonkity dong, clonkity ding, and ever the handy hack Gershwin takes up the rhythm and makes it sing. Rhapsodic rhapsodies in jazz mode stomp among the carriage silverwar......

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Categories: gershwin, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Anne-Sophie Mutter - the Club Album
...As a great lover of classical music over many years the violin became ace one particular lovely lady enchanted me Anne-Sophie Mutter classically first place This lady appeared in the Yellow Lou......

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Categories: gershwin, class, motivation, music, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If It Bleeds After Scratching It
...If It Bleeds After Scratching It If it bleeds after scratching it, then you went too far. I see a parade of dead people walking by me in this old dream. They are eating bananas and I recognize t......

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Categories: gershwin, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dear Budding Poet:
...Dear Budding Poet: Modern poetry is a sandbox for all who would build, smash, trash, shake up, and take up the art. Poetry is not writ, nor wrote, or written, but is hummed through the nose, and pla......

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Categories: gershwin, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Love's Lament
...She lovingly smiles at him each evening dressed in palest silk, a gossamer gown, brushed with hints of silverdust shadows. Her shapely fullness casts a womanly glow across his surface in ripp......

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Categories: gershwin, desire, moon, sea,
Form: Free verse
Elegy For Lady Day
...ELEGY FOR LADY DAY 'For all we know, this may be only be a dream We come and go like the ripples on a stream' Thus it was you sang with body wracked and failing Yet with that unmistakable voice......

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Categories: gershwin, eulogy, inspiration, memory, missing,
Form: Elegy
An Old Tune
...an old tune floats through my mind hoping for a space between Gershwin and Bach but the valet parks it in pop......

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Categories: gershwin, appreciation, music, song,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Being At Choice - An Echo Poem
...I Woke Up I woke up this morning to nothing, Emptiness crowded my lonely room, The sound of silence was deafening, I was blinded by the rays of gloom, (Just a dress rehearsal for th......

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Categories: gershwin, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Gershwin
...Exciting visions of the urban scene captured in music Joyous notes that is Gershwin My father passed away 4 years ago He used to thrill us with his piano he played the jazz master's work......

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Categories: gershwin, death, music, political,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member George Gershwin Terzanelle
...When you’re longing for someone to watch over you think about building a stairway to paradise even if it means you must dance alone with you. It may feel hard for your heart to sing, soul to rise It......

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Categories: gershwin, bereavement, death, death of
Form: Terzanelle
Premium Member Serenade Me, Julius La Rosa
...Serenade Me, Julius La Rosa His striped tie has a green tint color And his hands are dark and bulging with blood. I can see them gripping the steering wheel like parrot talons. I can see from all......

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Categories: gershwin, memory, me, dark, dark,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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