Great Grandma Gerty
...Great-grandma Gerty of the family Grim
Threw around threats, controlling them
Threatening to cut them out of her will.
If they drank, smoked, danced or used a pill.
In her eighties they thought i...
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Categories:
gerty, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme
Bloom
...The Hill of Howth During Horse Show Week 1972
June 16 is Bloomsday when in a world defying time
which stately fat Buck Mulligan starts off with a swim
and Stephen Daedalus feigns teaching and ...
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Categories:
gerty, june, love, parody, time,
Form: Shape
Gerty Cori
...Your upbringing, roots, traditions
did not prevent you
from discovering the truth.
Self-studying woman
with rapid progress,
encouragement to scientists.
You treated soul as science
making ...
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Categories:
gerty, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Toothless Ruth Revisited
...Forgive me, just some silly nonsense...
You can have your Chatty Cathy
Or Annie with the big Fanny
But you can't have Tom Terrific
You don't get it? That's uncanny!
They gotta rhyme like S...
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Categories:
gerty, humorous, , cute,
Form: Quatrain
A Friend Is
...sung by Frank Sinatra.
No sweet notes or lyric phrases by Paul Williams
Or Stevie Wonder...
Even Beethoven wrote no classical music score,
Keats nor Frost wrote the name in rhyme...
Being before her time, they knew nothing of her.
Gerturde...
Shortened "Gerty"
But either way she is
Lady Love
Lady Wisdom
Lady with heart so big
It must encompass the world.
Treasured friend,
Met her yesterday when we and the world
Were younger...
Now twenty ye...
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Categories:
gerty, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Gerty Gribble's Dilemma
...My aunty Gerty Gribble was a true blue pioneer
as she and husband Harold ran a place called 'Bendemere'.
Two dinkum Aussie battlers, who had given their life's blood
to fifty years of toiling o...
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Categories:
gerty, funny, mother, baby, old,
Form: Narrative