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Gerty Poems - Poems about Gerty


Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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

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