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Contumely
Contumely Poems - Poems about Contumely
Do Your Worst
...Perhaps you think I’m sitting here, amazed. Egregious as the test you set me is, the truth is, I am utterly unfazed. Desultory, to me, this kind of quiz. Of course I like a challenge. Don’t......
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Michael Coy
Categories:
contumely,
character,
Form:
Acrostic
Our Plight
...Strange sedition stealthy sets cloaked in artificial greening phiz some by prejudice inquiring, “Where are you from”? others in feigning frame avoiding, finding paths away from you, Though ha......
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©
Oluseyi Akinbami
Categories:
contumely,
africa, color, conflict, culture,
Form:
Free verse
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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©
Matthew Harris
Categories:
contumely,
absence, age, anniversary, bereavement,
Form:
Rhyme
The High Road
...Several moons ago, I caught someone Dead to rights, without him noticing I was just yards away as he Clamped a na......
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©
Edward Ibeh
Categories:
contumely,
anger, forgiveness, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Morning Star
...Morose morn, but sun’s a catalyst, warm On the eave, the pigeon’s contumely coo, rids a night’s cumbersome, cold, smother New day, dearth of dew on concrete lawn Its dull gray lightened by that......
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©
Susan Woodrow
Categories:
contumely,
allusion,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Beauty and the Beast
...There swims in each of us, a catalyst for dreams, an urgency that calls from shores that never were, a twinge of terror, lining distant paradise, uniquely all one's own. No one knows where all this ......
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©
Robert Ludden
Categories:
contumely,
allegory,
Form:
Free verse
Torture
...God has created me, To be a mate to my counterpart, To be a helping hand in this uncommunicative world, To be a soothing relief to him after exhaustion, To be a part of distress and sorrow, To t......
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Partha Pal
Categories:
contumely,
caregiving, daughter, family, hope,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme