Gertrude Stein’s poems are bold, experimental, and radically different from traditional poetry. She broke away from rhyme and linear meaning, focusing instead on repetition, rhythm, and the musicality of words. In her work, meaning often emerges through sound and structure rather than clear narrative. Stein believed that poetry should capture the continuous present—how thoughts and feelings actually move in the mind. Her innovative style influenced modernist literature deeply and challenged readers to experience language in entirely new ways.
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| Gertrude stein |
Susie Asado
Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.
Susie Asado.
Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.
Susie Asado.
Susie Asado which is a told tray sure.
A lean on the shoe this means slips slips hers.
When the ancient light grey is clean it is yellow, it is a silver seller.
This is a please this is a please there are the saids to jelly. These are the wets these say the sets to leave a crown to Incy.
Incy is short for incubus.
A pot. A pot is a beginning of a rare bit of trees. Trees tremble, the old vats are in bobbles, bobbles which shade and shove and render clean, render clean must.
Drink pups.
Drink pups drink pups lease a sash hold, see it shine and a bobolink has pins. It shows a nail.
What is a nail. A nail is unison.
Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.
A Long Dress
THAT is the current that makes machinery,
that makes it crackle,
what is the current that presents a long line and a necessary waist.
What is this current.
What is the wind, what is it.
Where is the serene length,
it is there and a dark place is not a dark place,
only a white and red are black, only a yellow and green are blue,
a pink is scarlet, a bow is every color. A line distinguishes it.
A line just distinguishes it.
Much Later
Elephants and birds of beauty and a gold fish. Gold fish or a superstition. They always bring bad luck. He had them and he was not told. Gold fish and he was not old. Gold fish and he was not to scold. Gold fish all told. The result was that the other people never had them and he knows nothing of it.
A Patriotic Leading
Verse I.
Indeed indeed
Can you see
The stars.
And regularly the precious treasure.
What do we have without measure.
We know.
Verse II.
We suspect the second man.
Verse III
We are worthy of everything that happens.
You mean weddings.
Naturally I mean weddings.
Verse IV
And then we are.
Hail to the nation.
Verse V
Do you think we believe it.
Verse VI
It is that or bust.
Verse VII
We cannot bust.
Verse VIII
Thank you.
Verse IX
Thank you so much.
From Four Saints in Three Acts
Pigeons on the grass alas.
Pigeons on the grass alas.
Short longer grass short longer longer shorter yellow grass. Pigeons
large pigeons on the shorter longer yellow grass alas pigeons on the
grass.
If they were not pigeons what were they.
If they were not pigeons on the grass alas what were they. He had
heard of a third and he asked about it it was a magpie in the sky.
If a magpie in the sky on the sky can not cry if the pigeon on the
grass alas can alas and to pass the pigeon on the grass alas and the
magpie in the sky on the sky and to try and to try alas on the
grass alas the pigeon on the grass the pigeon on the grass and alas.
They might be very well they might be very well very well they might
be.
Let Lucy Lily Lily Lucy Lucy let Lucy Lucy Lily Lily Lily Lily
Lily let Lily Lucy Lucy let Lily. Let Lucy Lily.
