Contretemps Poems - Poems about Contretemps

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

... "The Price of Pearls" a strange time just as a dream to a place of strangeness strangers walking contretemps' fine lines composing invis......Read the rest...

... “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......Read the rest...

...Prior To Commencing Poem, I Dreamt Contretemps Escalating fusillade... Galvanized hotheaded idealists (jaded locals - kindled moderates) nursed oppressive proletarian quavering riot spearheadin......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...Now that i shall sink and die in the nadirs of my own house; And my tears shall trickle down and fall on the distrait soils of my land, Now that i shall fall and wither If at all I have to free......Read the rest...