Contretemps Poems - Poems about Contretemps

To Think - I Was There

...A triumph of artistic erudition,
a monumental, historic production, 
played to houses hushed and full - 
Aesop's Fables with real animals - 
glorious choreographed interaction,
among creatures o...

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...

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...

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...

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
...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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