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Gertrude Poems - Poems about Gertrude

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Premium Member Gertrude Abercrombie, Woman with Tethered Horse and Moon
...nothing really holds us in place and I'm not sure where we go to when we rear up then some semblance of order restores, everything settles the constants continue energy j......Read the rest...
Categories: gertrude, art,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Nothing to See Untitled Painting, Gertrude Abercrombie
...I do not wish to proffer an explanation What I wish to do is stand still a moment Whilst you now observe me I have this vantage point Aware yet blind to perspective We both presume What I ......Read the rest...
Categories: gertrude, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Dreamers Meeting Place, Gertrude Abercrombie
...you hold me as if suspended in thin air the comfort of free fall in perfect safety I sleep soundly on this plain we cast shadows are real perhaps we should questi......Read the rest...
Categories: gertrude, art,
Form: Free verse
Gertrude and Dotty
... 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 ......Read the rest...
Categories: gertrude, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Love Love Homage to Gertrude Stein Artwork Charles Demuth 1928
...framed feelings one, two, three recognise me sensuality love emblazoned unmasking trembling seen......Read the rest...
Categories: gertrude, art,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Two Ladders - Gertrude Abercrombie
...Should I look up, I see it all clearly The route, the goal, the possibilities To be cradled and lie on fluffy pillows Or perhaps impossible dreams Then there's the drowning Oh how I'll drown......Read the rest...
Categories: gertrude, angst,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Strange Shadows - Shadows and Substance - Gertrude Abercrombie 1950
...It's all me How I perceptualise I place the chalice of expectation within reach Then plead with my shadow for just one sip I myself project the watchers, to create my own unease Always complete......Read the rest...
Categories: gertrude, angst, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member The Stroll - Gertrude Abercrombie 1943
...it's easy to imagine the moon fell out of the sky but no, it's still up there, where it's always been I look around to see what chases me; nothing moves... but the tree stands still w......Read the rest...
Categories: gertrude, anxiety,
Form: Ekphrasis
Because I Meant To Bow Before You
...( An experiment, because of an idea Gertrude Stein had about the musicality, or poetic polyphonetics of repeat·ed/ing ( fleeting, depleting, reexcreating? ) words or phrases. I only hope God's ......Read the rest...
Categories: gertrude, religious,
Form: Free verse
Memories of the Salon
...He said what he had to say to tell the story He did what he had to do to rescue time He paid what he had to pay to bribe the jailers He gave what he had to give —per Gertrude Stein (Dreamsl......Read the rest...
Categories: gertrude, memory,
Form: Rhyme
The Legend of Big Indian, Part I
...Hear this recitation the Lenape nation bore a child of extreme size, in the Onteoras, the Catskills of yore now, this man would live out his whole life. Winisook was his name, and he gained ......Read the rest...
Categories: gertrude, america, history, loss, lost
Form: Narrative
Gossiping
...Whispers unheard Among gossips The truth becoming Unknown Gertrude tells Harriet Then Mayble tells Juliet That the Milkman Is sleeping with Evelyn Unbeknown to all Fredrick the Milkman ......Read the rest...
Categories: gertrude, image,
Form: Rhyme
Going Out To Dinner
...Meeting our friends for dinner (Hamlet and Gertrude) "Honey, do I look fat in this dress" Me thinking, (how do I answer that question) "Why no dear you look great" "Okay, I will put on......Read the rest...
Categories: gertrude, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Clerihew Stein
...Poet Gertrude Stein had a staccato style quite fine She also became a Cubist & with prose poetry for a while did persist......Read the rest...
Categories: gertrude, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
A Scotsman In the Heather, Wearing Heather Yarns Under Heather Skies Meeting, Someone
...A Scotsman voyaged through the highlands Thickly covered with lush, purple heather Kilt adorned and bare, his regions nether Feeling breezy on this, a grand endeavor He trekked across enjoying ba......Read the rest...
Categories: gertrude, silly, voyage,
Form: Rhyme

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