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Contretemps Poems - Poems about Contretemps

Premium Member Gentle and Loving Heart
...Gentle and loving heart is all. It tames the stormy days’ wildness toll, Subsiding the seemingly incomprehensible Unfairness of the wild world numb contretemps. Yet It flames the homely w......

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Categories: contretemps, heart, love,
Form: Free verse
We All Are Slaves In Time's Ship
...we all are slaves in time's ship held hostage to a promise of eternity as the sails fill, oars are manned we journey into life facing contretemps in some moments while lucky stars at times comma......

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Categories: contretemps, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Reverse Midas Touch
...Stomach-wrenching body blows dog those blighted by endemic fiasco,, grim dervish whirl of death a maybe one day royal flush, predicament that hoodoo mark in frozen ink, cataclysmic episode relen......

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Categories: contretemps, age, angst, august, care,
Form: Free verse
I Wander These Winter Beaches
...i wander these winter beaches where autumn's storms have removed the footfalls of summer believing in spring here i am alone listening to the waves mellifluously remind yet never recalling ......

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Categories: contretemps, solitude, winter,
Form: Free verse
Attempts At Lifelong Friendships and Holy Matrimony
...Introduction: once again I incorporate my trademark penchant to fabricate fictitiously portions of the following poetic endeavor can you care to discern fact from fiction? Attempts at life......

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Categories: contretemps, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme



November 13th 2021 Happy Eighty Sixth Birthday
...November 13th, 2021 - Happy eighty sixth birthday to my long deceased mom... Harriet Harris née Kuritsky My mother succumbed to a terminal illness two score minus three orbitz passed away no m......

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Categories: contretemps, absence, age, anniversary, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Price of Pearls
... "The Price of Pearls" a strange time just as a dream to a place of strangeness strangers walking contretemps' fine lines composing invis......

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Categories: contretemps, magic, poetess, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member The Way Home
... “The Way Home” I close my eyes, and dream in reverse of The Great Contretemps The feared no-go zone a minor drop in the ocean too swift a......

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Categories: contretemps, courage, faith, home, journey,
Form: Free verse
Prior To Commencing Poem, I Dreamt Contretemps Escalating Fusillade
...Prior To Commencing Poem, I Dreamt Contretemps Escalating fusillade... Galvanized hotheaded idealists (jaded locals - kindled moderates) nursed oppressive proletarian quavering riot spearheadin......

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Categories: contretemps, appreciation, atheist, brother, freedom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Limoncello Deluxe Velvet Comfort Divine
...There you are you’re sitting down feet planted firmly on the ground staring at a blank screen wrists held just so, your anxiously poised ready to go writing all that you have inside your......

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Categories: contretemps, desire, fantasy, imagery, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Ada Mcdonald 1873-1906
...Ada McDonald 1873-1906 This is a mistake! A huge contretemps indeed! A foul up of the most egregious kind! You see, it wasn’t my time yet, This death thing; I had things to do still......

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Categories: contretemps, death,
Form: Epitaph
Never Let True Love Die
...L-et not true love die, I-n spite of the shake; Z-one of wrangle and bicker A-ims for the chain to break. F-ight the falling-out, A-s well as the argle-bargle; L-et the contretemps fade......

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Categories: contretemps, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
The Contretemps
...Around the lounge a drowsy brown hound was routing, and found a rowdy lout shouting aloud and flouting a crowd of stout, proud men who frowned at his pounds tumbling down the ground and they clouted......

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Categories: contretemps, fantasy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Drown
...Drown. It happens a pace imperceptible, It is lost only at the moment it was perceived the The aqua alta Carved out an embayment in my heart No rivers made room for the sea, Tidal floods b......

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Categories: contretemps, allegory, anxiety, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Contretemps
...Angry acts begin. Harmful words would never flare, Count to ten then once again. Wildfire spreading fast, With mistaken, muddled acts. Smokey aftertaste will last. Then finessed assau......

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Categories: contretemps, allegory, allusion, analogy, assonance,
Form: Rhyme

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