Gertrude Poems - Poems about Gertrude

She is known as Dotty, her actual name is Gertrude, that secret she will take to her grave. Powerful people have always sought her out. Edison visited in the summer months, he proposed many times, but a man that would electrocute an elephant just to make a point could never have turned her head. Teddy Rosevelt visits, sadly his ghost has not lost any weight. He...

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Gertrude Besamer was a bunny with style, flair, and class. She entered Marla’s Tearoom with a bit of jazzy sass. Marla complimented her on her barrette made of glass. And her well-padded bustle which enhanced her pretty a…....

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The President of the United States called last night, he spoke most curtly, demanding to know her middle name. She sent him packing with a stinging rebuke. Her middle name is Gertrude; that secret she will take to her grave. Powerful people have always sought her out. Edison visited in the summer months, he proposed many times, but a man that...

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Gertrude Was Rude And Mean Caused Scene Would Yell Raise Hell She Sat With Bat In Yard Like Guard One Friend Til’ End Her Dog Named Frog 12-16-2020 Contest:Footle Sponsor:Brian Stand...

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Aunt Gertrude When Aunt Gertrude, comes by the house I want to run away She’s very large and burps a lot And wears a lot of gray Her hairy brows go up and down When she makes funny looks And I can tell, she has a smell Of old and musty books She squeezes me and grabs a hug Before I even speak Then her big...

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There was a young lass from Gertrude Who just loved to dance in the nude But she had two left feet She could not hold a beat ...

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Are those thoughts you put in what I once valued more Or would what I put out be the end winning score Did I need your ears for my voice to become whole Or would I rather them deafened words deep in my soul In my twenties your opinion carried some weight In my thirties...

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Gertrude Bangle 1895-1914 By name I was called Trudy. When living. Dear friends of the living, Do you know Whittier town Is a very haunted town? Do you know my ghost still walks Still silently steps by you? Oblivious you? Here in the stalking shade of the myrtles? Here in the dark shadows of the walnuts? I still seek the solace from a seeping sadness. Still seek the...

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While Gertrude Recovers By Elton Camp Gertrude had been in the hospital a week To her husband the doctor sternly did speak “It’s essential you wife not get out of bed, So be certain that she doesn’t,” the doc said George assured him that he would comply That proper care he would be sure to supply As soon as it was time a...

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-- Re: Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Rue de Fleurus #27, Paris -- What would Gertrude. What, Gertrude.What, Gertie?Have thought.Have thought what thought?Thought thought driving,forward,remorselessly.Remorseless Remorse? Forward.Never reverse;no reverse.No.No remorse. Remorseless,spurning reverse,seated.High!Seated high in Auntie.Then in Godiva seated. Looming.Enormous. Looming enormous.Unsinister presence. Certain presence.Definite.Definitely not sinister. Positively looming;enormous in brown. Brown, in brown corduroy,driving Paris. In Paris,through...

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New Years began this year Amid global poisoning Gertrudes’s skirt began to burn At the edges Sirens blared, and some attempt At presidential communication Seemed comical Leaping to my sister from being Immolated....... prevented the President's Message connecting I may seem slow at this verse ...

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