Short Gertrude Poems

not not
do do
Gertrude Stein...

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If it's not a poem, it must be prose --
  Quoth Gertrude Stein: A rose is a rose is a rose...

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framed
feelings
one, two, three
recognise me
sensuality
love emblazoned 
unmasking
trembling
seen...

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Poet Gertrude Stein
had a staccato style quite fine
She also became a Cubist
& with prose poetry for a while did persist...

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A pill is uphill
                                   Gertrude 
  
A pill is uphill is a pill
                                     Stein...

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What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, 
is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. what is marriage.
- Gertrude Stein...

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How do we describe a sense of humor
Sometimes silly last words on a tombstone
No respect for the dead
Just silly instead
Gertrude passed away from a humorous tumor ...

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I went a fishin in the neighborhood pond
Just when I cast it in I had to suddenly abscond
I didn’t think it was wrong 
But the pond wore a thong
I was chased by the husband of Gertrude the blond...

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Out of my mind, back in a few minutes
Adjusting my parameters, can't find 'em in a thicket
Happens now and then
Probably out feeding the hens
My name is Gertrude and my stockings are fishnet...

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Showers
of silhouettes,
rookery in the rain-
Springtime just around the corner
Again

Ekphrasis inspired by Rookery & Rain-Gertrude Hermes

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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

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)...

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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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G-ood 
E-xpression's 
R-emarkable 
T-opic 
R-ightfully 
U-ses 
D-edication's 
E-ssence 

S-tarting 
T-o 
E-mploy 
I-deal 
N-ote 

Topic: Birthday of poetess Gertrude Stein (February 03) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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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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Hortense and Gertrude
   Priscilla, Imogene
Once-popular names
   no more to be seen

Isadore, Cornelius
  Cyrus and Mortimer
Back in the day such
  names courted her

You never know though
  when a name may return
Such as Ambrose, Edsel
   Penelope or Fern...

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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 
Was gay
He was happy to
Sleep with
Evelyn
While her husband
Was away...

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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
       To top it all off she was rude



  




* Gertrude is a ghost town in West Virginia 

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Stein writes, ‘A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose’,
Insight, ‘I’m told what I’m told what I’m told what I’m told’.
My plight: ‘I know what I know what I know what I know’,
So I recite, ‘I go where I go where I go where I go’.

Inspired by ‘Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose’ in Sacred Emily by Gertrude Stein, 1913

1-September-2021...

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Precious Gertrude...
Began waving mildly her little wings
Then wildly while wishing
But yet to fly; baby's blinking
Black pearl eyes and so very lovely
These priceless tiny cries; curls atop 
Her furry fuzzy crown; lying down a rest
She this beauty stirring within, her dreams....
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...."The Princess Chronicles" *...

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Precious Gertrude....
Began waving mildly her little wings
Then wildly while wishing
But yet to fly; baby's blinking
Black pearl eyes and so very lovely
These priceless tiny cries; curls atop 
Her furry fuzzy crown; lying down a rest
She this beauty stirring within, her dreams....
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...."The Princess Chronicles" *...

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Tinky dearly loved her twinkies she as Gertrude; two vestal virgins....
Sitting aneath curvatures verandah every night at twilight they would meet
Sharing this somewhat cyclamatic after dinner treat; serenades sprinkled heart ?
Joy the reverie in every bite they would invoke; daydreams lost amid creamful swirls.. 
Riding heavenly waves of love her sweet cakes, Tinky and Gertrude; priceless, baby girls....

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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 I listened
  but asked you to wait

In my forties I turned
  and walked slowly away

Now alone in the twilight 
  —to carry the day

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)...

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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 meal to prepare
He pushed Gert on her bed right in there

“Is this close enough to reach the stove okay?”
To his dear wife, lying on her bed, he did say...

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