"gretta" poems - Hello Poetry

I am Emma Bovary I am Prufrock I am the Underground Man I am Gretta I'm trapped in my mind, wondering why I am in this situation... I'm unsure of myself and my feelings... I needed to dominate but now I realize what I got isn't what I want... I'm judged by my past and still wanting to re-live my glory days... I too am Baumer... I'm fighting but it's time to rest Oh Dorian! why am I so perfect? Tomorrow, I'll be at breakfast and won't see the girl who made me feel this way, I'll give up hope and continue lying saying "I'll elope" Besides, she'll think I'm ugly and I'll feel alone and ashamed I too... Am Decaying on The Inside

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Mar 29, 2015

Mar 29, 2015 at 10:30 PM UTC

kidridley

E. Bovary

I am Emma Bovary I am Prufrock I am the Underground Man I am Gretta I'm trapped in my mind, wondering why I am in this situation... I'm unsure of myself and my feelings... I needed to dominate but now I realize what I got isn't what I want... I'm judged by my past and still wanting to re-live my glory days... I too am Baumer... I'm fighting but it's time to rest Oh Dorian! why am I so perfect? Tomorrow, I'll be at breakfast and won't see the girl who made me feel this way, I'll give up hope and continue lying saying "I'll elope" Besides, she'll think I'm ugly and I'll feel alone and ashamed I too... Am Decaying on The Inside

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On the backs of the women before us Stands legacy and triumph, Women like Anna Komnene Who saved her father’s reputation, knew the classics, And supervised hospitals, Proving you can be royalty and brilliant, Empress Wu, The only known empress in early Chinese history, Who challenged the norms for women liberation, On the backs of the women before us, Are the Roasies, The strong women who joined industry and steel during World War 2, Doing a man’s job, Showing women have muscle, A group known as the night witches Women who bombed Nazi’s in the darkest hours, Showing women can fight, On the backs of the women before us, Sacajawea, Who at 16 trekked the mid-west with Lewis and Clark with a baby on her back, Proving women can endure, Kathrine Johnson, Who proved to the world gender and color doesn’t matter, Anyone can use mathematics for the growth of humanity, Rosa Parks, who looked into the eyes of a white man, And refused to give up her seat, Proving that women can revolt, Nellie Bly, Who mothered investigative journalism, Florence nightingale, Who without her nursing wouldn’t have its roots, On the backs of the women today, Is Malala who at 15 was shot for standing up for a girl’s right for education, Or Gretta Thunberg who at 17 is fighting for a greener earth, On the backs of the women before us, And on the backs of the women today, Are women showing girls that tomorrow and the day after, They can look into the eye of a man and say Try me.. I’ll go far

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Mar 25, 2020

Mar 25, 2020 at 3:20 PM UTC

wrtingsmith34

On the backs of the women before us

On the backs of the women before us Stands legacy and triumph, Women like Anna Komnene Who saved her father’s reputation, knew the classics, And supervised hospitals, Proving you can be royalty and brilliant, Empress Wu, The only known empress in early Chinese history, Who challenged the norms for women liberation, On the backs of the women before us, Are the Roasies, The strong women who joined industry and steel during World War 2, Doing a man’s job, Showing women have muscle, A group known as the night witches Women who bombed Nazi’s in the darkest hours, Showing women can fight, On the backs of the women before us, Sacajawea, Who at 16 trekked the mid-west with Lewis and Clark with a baby on her back, Proving women can endure, Kathrine Johnson, Who proved to the world gender and color doesn’t matter, Anyone can use mathematics for the growth of humanity, Rosa Parks, who looked into the eyes of a white man, And refused to give up her seat, Proving that women can revolt, Nellie Bly, Who mothered investigative journalism, Florence nightingale, Who without her nursing wouldn’t have its roots, On the backs of the women today, Is Malala who at 15 was shot for standing up for a girl’s right for education, Or Gretta Thunberg who at 17 is fighting for a greener earth, On the backs of the women before us, And on the backs of the women today, Are women showing girls that tomorrow and the day after, They can look into the eye of a man and say Try me.. I’ll go far

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the mirror runs the length of the bar. we down our drinks and the bar empties out into the street. across the street the unemployment building is burning. the tender, passionate flames sets the night on fire. blue eyes looks up, she says to me, "wanta go on a date? i'll make all your dreams come true, wouldn't you love to love me?" she hooks her arm through my arm and smiles, "$20 and up depending on what you want." "what's you're name?" "Marie." Gretta and Marie are kissing and turn to me and give me that Cheshire cat smiling and for a moment the ****** of the impossible when the 5th floor collapses on the 4th floor the flames shot up like the 4th of July and everyone cheers. but then the fire engines come. we file across the street and into the bar, unhappy faces, angry faces stare. the party was over. and the mirror runs the length the length of the bar.

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Sep 5, 2024

Sep 5, 2024 at 8:34 PM UTC

guy-scutellaro

the mirror

the mirror runs the length of the bar. we down our drinks and the bar empties out into the street. across the street the unemployment building is burning. the tender, passionate flames sets the night on fire. blue eyes looks up, she says to me, "wanta go on a date? i'll make all your dreams come true, wouldn't you love to love me?" she hooks her arm through my arm and smiles, "$20 and up depending on what you want." "what's you're name?" "Marie." Gretta and Marie are kissing and turn to me and give me that Cheshire cat smiling and for a moment the ****** of the impossible when the 5th floor collapses on the 4th floor the flames shot up like the 4th of July and everyone cheers. but then the fire engines come. we file across the street and into the bar, unhappy faces, angry faces stare. the party was over. and the mirror runs the length the length of the bar.

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tears in front of the ancestors' tomb again you'd think at twenty-eight I'd learned all my lessons but Lynn & Gretta's littlest girl lost the chips she thought she'd win stuck between an atrophied, near-calcified heart & a hard place good lord, she's still fighting to salvage face to keep her name but all these pitfalls are none but hers to blame never a gambler but ever still playing the game

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Sep 14, 2018

Sep 14, 2018 at 3:48 AM UTC

jml90

.giving Kenny Rogers a run for his money.

tears in front of the ancestors' tomb again you'd think at twenty-eight I'd learned all my lessons but Lynn & Gretta's littlest girl lost the chips she thought she'd win stuck between an atrophied, near-calcified heart & a hard place good lord, she's still fighting to salvage face to keep her name but all these pitfalls are none but hers to blame never a gambler but ever still playing the game

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