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Gil Poems - Poems about Gil

Premium Member Tale of Diamond Lil
...Bill and Gil met a new gal, Diamond Lil In a sassy saloon named Petey’s Swill She was dressed with a dolly lady’s skill Ruffled as a male peacock with a trill Diamond Lil educated naïve Bill an......

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Categories: gil, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member No Flexin'
...NO FLEXIN/ Word and Art/Tony Adamo Iconic slick rhymes/ trumpet beats sampled/ Latin soul grooves on Bronx Street/ No flexin’, just real 90's rap/ Hip hop flows into jazz spoken word soul/ jazz......

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Categories: gil, music, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word



Celebrate the Girl Child
...The epitome of beauty Great delight Crown of royalty Office of dignity This prestige that comes with being a girl child. As a girl child, Let me use this opportunity to celebrate every girl......

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Categories: gil, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Foreign Hitherto
...Pushing cascades crest bastion, stomach lost Largesse spread wafts orange blossom bridal Bestows clouds let go to marshmallow moss Fearless flight crinoline crash vertical In ......

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Categories: gil, analogy, animal, baptism, drink,
Form: Sonnet
Christmas At Its Wrongest
...Christmas at its wrongest Around masquerade-watching men mill, All of them like church -avoiding Jill And all over again Christmas they kill; The venue, a valley that hates every hill, Shadows o......

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Categories: gil, anniversary, birthday, celebration, christmas,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Win 'The Trip' Murray
...Win ‘The Trip’ Murray Some wish the life of stewardess; Win Murray was the ‘trip,’ more than a plane or ship at sea, with stops not on a map, a riptide ocean surf conceal......

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Categories: gil, appreciation, bereavement, friendship love,
Form: Rhyme
The Western Stars
...An old black and white movie took me back to my childhood when cowboys rode the range Major Adams and Flint McCullough leading the Wagon Train, and Hopalong's ten-gallon white hat rode the b......

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Categories: gil, analogy, stars, , western,
Form: Rhyme
Ghosts of the High Rockies, Part Ii
...* * * The trapper looked for the oddly-dressed man, but could no longer see him, or his tent. He glanced around, so supremely confused, now where the devil had that darned fool went? He sear......

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Categories: gil, america, confusion, history, imagery,
Form: Narrative
Walt Whitman Pursuing Beauty
...WALT WHITMAN PURSUING BEAUTY ( In his 200 Aniversary ) His Biosphere, his Biorealm, his Bioprovince His Bioregion, his Biolocale Beat plunged humming “Leaves of Grass” Throught drunken twi......

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Categories: gil, anniversary,
Form: Free verse
Glow In Life
...G-low I-n L-ife E-ndorses V-ividness A-s S-unrise C-learly O-pens Topic: Birthday of Gil Evasco (September 13) Form: Vertical Monocrostic......

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Categories: gil, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Her Ferns
...Aunt Rose is always with her ferns Since that's where Uncle Gil broke the urn- 7/19/2018......

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Categories: gil, family, flower, funny,
Form: Epigram
I Am In the Middle of Becoming Anchored
...I wish I could be like Gil Scott Heron in the middle of becoming anchored, somehow reconciled, somehow being detached and lost, all the time thinking about jazz, or maybe not Hey where do they ......

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Categories: gil, america, anxiety, art,
Form: Classicism
Living In Brooklyn
...Flatbush . . . Bedford Stuyvesant . . . Saint Jerome's . . . Our Lady of Good Counsel School . . . The Sisters of Mercy . . . The Franciscan Brothers. Double features at the Farragut movie on Satur......

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Categories: gil, change, childhood, culture, growing
Form: Free verse
The Texas Treasure Tragedy, Part Iii
...Blackjack’s face held its dark glare, he shook his head in disgust. “We rode all this way, and your great ‘treasure’ is some moldy old paper and dust?” He slowly moved his hand towards his gun,......

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Categories: gil, history, hope, loss, time,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
The Texas Treasure Tragedy, Part Ii
...He rose from his half-finished whisky, and set out, clear out of town. Blackjack would be very keen to know what the soft, little clerk had found. Gil rode back out into the desert, retracing ......

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Categories: gil, history, hope, loss, time,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

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