Contumely Poems - Poems about Contumely

...I know a funeral when I walk into one I can tell between a funeral and a burial They are two entirely different artworks One is done on grand canvas, with drunken strokes Of sashaying brush and b......

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...My theme is, “Martha Washington – but why?” First Lady – how the Big Man’s wife behaves was fixed by her: so Jackie Kennedy was shaped by Martha. Coming through the rye, we learn that some are ......

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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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