Faux pas
Starmer when said 'return of sausages',
He just meant safe return of hostages.
Yet, in this world of words
Where actions are rare birds,
Gaffes rule, tongues slip with faux passages!
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Happenings |32.09.2024| humour, political, words
Poet’s note: The UK Prime Minister Starmer called for the return of sausages, which soon went viral. Sure, he meant hostages.
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Categories:
faux pas, humor, political, words,
Form: Limerick
Faux Pas
For those who lack conviction
Aspirations stay but a mirage
And for those crafting mountains from mole hills
Detriment a deadly barrage
Believers of strange eyes upon them
Flaunt shame as a wristed corsage
And without the courage to soften their hackles
Lie confined in their mind's dank garage
Jongleurs of fabled failures
Treat their worry to massage
Subjecting the rest of their dreadful days
To
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Categories:
faux pas, confidence, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: Monorhyme
Inapropos Trois Faux Pas Jokingly Blurted Out
Inapropos trois faux pas jokingly blurted out...
yesterday August 30th, 2022.
The following fictitious account
predicated upon words spilling
out me mouth before taking time
to think through how sarcastic remark
would affect primary listener.
Comments about marital matters
particularly ours (yours truly and wife)
uttered in earshot of the missus
in company of a fellow resident
who befriended us;
hours later, she gave me
a severe dressing
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Categories:
faux pas, adventure, august, fate, funny
Form: Free verse
Don'T Forget
Don’t forget
I tried and did
My best
I gave it all
And more
Don’t forget
When you
See my picture
That this man
Lived ten lives
Took the pain
Of ten men
But felt the
Love of none
Don’t forget
I was just
a man
Of flesh
And sin
Foibles
And Faux pas
Don’t forget
This man
Was your
Dad
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Categories:
faux pas, father,
Form: Free verse
A Minor Faux Pas Accidental Duplication
of part one pertaining to my most recent poetic entry (Inexplicable Quirky Memory Unhinged clasp one) unintentionally got submitted twice, and rather than tamper with attempting to delete delicately, (and probably wreak greater havoc then desirable), this generic human male (meaning thy characteristics of body, mind and spirit) lumped within that general category designated as
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Categories:
faux pas, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Faux-Pas of a Celebration
Exultant excitability chase
Leaving a bad taste
A faux-pas of a celebration
In place of jubilation
Camera smiles full of lies
All the party in disguise
Veiled in ceremonious style
Triumphant distractions to beguile
Hush-hush in a clamorous hilarity
A dressed-up gaiety
Revelling with wine and in consternation
Addled and unable to form an illation
The after-truth hurt multiplied
Feelings of exclusion intensified
The devil has been sold a
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Categories:
faux pas, celebration, confusion, family, wedding,
Form: Rhyme
The Pope's Faux Pas - Footles
The Pope Trips
Humble
Stumble
The Pope Drops His Ferula
Humble
Fumble
The Pope Gets Caught in His Robes
Divine
Decline
Copyright, August 18, 2014
Faye Lanham Gibson
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Categories:
faux pas, funny, humorous,
Form: Footle
A Social Faux Pas
Pardon me sir, but did you not just break wind?
Pardon me sir, but don't you feel a bit chagrined?
Pardon me sir, but I deem your faux pas mighty gross!
Pardon me sir, but you've left me feeling a bit morose!
Pardon me sir, but on this bus we don't enjoy your sop!
Pardon me sir, may I suggest
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Categories:
faux pas, humorous, pollution,
Form: Couplet
Love Faux Pas
The beauty of love is when it is felt by two.
I started tracking down the history
of “whose” fault. Being human, to fault is ok--
This, persistently, leads me to spy
the naked lady, on shoreline rocks,
displaying her rarity with a pink smile.
I desire to achieve the secret
of the infidels. Many times,
I was
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Categories:
faux pas, life, love, nature, recovery
Form: Free verse
The Laws of Paws and My Faux Pas
And she was beautiful,
licking the years from my face
and thankful I allowed such nonsense.
For her,
it was such nonsense
that gifted her with more time.
That rear-scratching against post and fence
as the moon eclipsed another of her hours,
until, I too, knowing we were alone in the dark,
scratched my own rear on the fence.
And I laughed
while she barked,
looking
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Categories:
faux pas, animals, devotion, friendship, love,
Form: Narrative