Short Faux Pas Poems

Fashion faux pas scandals,
Wearing socks with sandals....

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looking before leaping
for innocence is passé 
soul in a state of no mind
celebrates each faux pas

18-March-2023...

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My love has not a single flaw
A quality I regard with awe.
She commits no faux pas
And always obeys the law
Can all this be true?  Nah....

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The oldest profession, far from abating,
has lost it’s long time faux pas rating.
Now … it’s simply called dating.



(Triplet Inspired by Brian Strand's "Whatever" contest.) 5/12/11...

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Sighting the plankton,
it was the moondown 
entry, of heron 
in the lake.

*

Flawless, a big fish 
eats the small fish. 
It was not a 
faux pas.

*

The animalism 
outreaches. Would you 
now go for a 
favourite deity ?


Satish Verma...

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Unwritten chapters of poetry
 hidden mid brick-wall blank
 pages 'tween lines of history's
   past grievances and faux pas,
relentless whispers of tenuous
   echoes chanting unintelligibly 
whilst abstruse inky passages
  fade further intangible obscurity...

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I say to le "grand fromage".
You and your pastiche attachè.
You with all your rakish, cliche.
You think you're so Debonair.
You with another au pair.
You and one more rendezvous.
You again it's déjà vu.
You and another faux pas.
You always with Au revoir.
I say so much "bon voyage....

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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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I made a faux pas – c’est la vie!
And asked for butter on my bread,
The other diners stared at me.
I made a faux pas – c’est la vie!
And then I wanted Earl Grey tea…
‘Il est Anglais,’ the waiter said.
I made a faux pas – c’est la vie!
And asked for butter on my bread.

For Cyndi’s Un, Deux, Trios contest...

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A faux pas meant to be funny
a complicated compliment 
undressing the address

Words intermingle
suspending the single

Ghosts masked in the past
hypocrisy lasts
living a lie
tears in the sky

Explaining the unexplainable
a throne unattainable
reprecussions released
a mindset at ease

Lay down your pen
surrender's at hand...

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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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The fearful varmint that claws at your callous origin
Caused a ceaseless chain of nightmares
A simple faux pas contrives a generation of idiocy
The toes of a screaming infant dwindling in our wake
Loyalty had not yet bared a face of existence
Atonement was never a question but a riddle
Heed your forthcoming capers
For they just may deface you...

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Listen to poem:

*Image of Quebec City by LNEWS.

Hawaiian Eskimos

Quacking lone duckling on a crystal lake,
Queerly hops a loon, faux pas not a mistake,

Quebec, dad's trunk roads for sightseers,
Quaint scene, an edgy dad seeks volunteers,

Qualifying mountie, Hawaiians, he indulges,
Quality time, the whole of Canada, he divulges.

2022 July 26...

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At first, when he sidestepped the Queen,
A slight that the world had not seen,
We hung our heads low,
Embarrassed, although
Such faux pas have become quite routine.

But the meeting with Putin was worse
For it seemed, when the two would converse,
Someone looked like a chump
And, of course, it was Trump
Who makes things go from bad right to verse!...

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Mon raison d'être
Your face is more beautiful than the Eiffel Tower at sunrise
Our amour seemed real, n’est-ce pas?

When I first saw you, I sensed déjà vu
Your Mona Lisa smile made me wonder
Is she a femme fatale?

But when you kicked my shins, 
I knew that I had made a faux pas
I’ll keep my distance from l'objet d'art...

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Troubled world
Shaken to the core
Shivers in tremors
Our inner calm implores.

Troubled heart
Shaken to the soul
Shivers in haggard
Our fear a deadly foe.

Troubled lives
Shaken to their root
Shivers in fault lines
Our faux pas to undo.

Troubled world
Shaken by one and all
Shivers in honor
Our tears have absolved.

By CarolineCécile
Copyright © 03.12.11...

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RINSE AND REPEAT

the wall of my shower stumbles up stairs
as he sings: “shower time”

his feet caught him unaware
and the Laurel to his Hardy

follows, with a folded ladder
I duck twice...to the left, to the right

“thanks for showering me with laughs,”
I jest, as I warn, that a poet captures

the mind’s snapshot and adds
it to her faux pas poetry collection.

5/31/2018...

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A sudden flash it all crept back
creating ripples across my mind
l had let it sink deep with time
hoping that it could never win
The struggle was real  for all to see
Taking over now and consumed me
                    
                          I knew it only was a minute 
                                 I thought it an hour
                          too much time for a faux pas...

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She was a cartoon, but he fell in love with her any way.
I wish I knew her name! He confided to his grandmother.
She is a cartoon! His grandmother replied, she does not have a name!
It hurt her feelings, so she disappeared, never to grace his computer again.
He resented his grandmother for this faux pas for the rest of his life.
Holding a grudge because she never came back.
Not even in his dreams....

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Dedicated to all teachers in the world, inclusion of lecturers, professors et al

T rained to train
E mbellished wits shelled in distinction
A lpha of acumen, Omega of brains
C onfetti of efforts contract into a porringer
H oisted hood, encompassing passion
E lectrifying zeal melt into èclat
R unners up tarring the trail of education
S aviors of persons ridden in faux pas. 
       19:10:05:11:22...

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I love to go to Mardi Gras
And see the girls cast off their bra
As if it were their sole faux-pas
In dancing through their last hurrah

I do not know just where they went
I can not guess what charms were Lent
But I suspect the knight was spent
In screwing odds they might repent

You're sure to hear old-timers say,
"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may"
But ashes mark the end of play
The fun begins on Judgment day!...

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The Rose...appears
to stand alone
a single stem
uniqueness shone
amongst the rest
she puts to rest
no other bloom
or bouquet scent

Only her....
Is all I need
her garden full
her call I heed
a whispered sweet
fragrant aroma
 perfumed feet
no thorns to faux pas

Neither now,a single stem
companions tied
heartstrings amend
a shadowed past now left behind
look to the future,new set of eyes......
( T.R.)...

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Wedding Vows
At the altar
I did falter.

Marriage woes
Woman to woo
said, I do!

Faux Pas
As an afterthought
Upon myself brought,

Married Life
Dark ominous cloud,
I bemoan aloud.

Divorce
Fierce I battled
All debts settled;

Lesson Learned
Bachelors better beware
Escape Vixen’s Snare!


~10/11/18
~SIX-WORD COUPLET SERIES ENCORE Contest
   Sponsor: Mark Toney...

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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 you de-bus at the next stop!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(c) All Rights Reserved

Entry for Poetess Darkly's "Pardon Me, Did You Just..." Contest...

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As we sing our own song
Judging right from wrong
We may do well to pause
To search for the faux pas
That makes real this error
Reflecting in our demeanour

Layer by layer
As we slowly uncover
Cause of subconscious prejudice
We choose to give beliefs a miss
Decluttering our being
From past conditioning

As we shift our abode to the void
Wherein we are ever overjoyed
God inside
We abide
With love & light
Blissful & bright

19-October-2020...

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