Short Gauche Poems

Sunshine, the seaside
A Gauche
Living with bliss
Moon in sunlight
Boots stepping
Familiar life
Reading foreignly
Stalling, calling.
Eat it.
Beat it....

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Small giraffe,
Short caterpillar,
Slow cheetah,
Shy lion,
Plain peacock,
Serious puppy,
Energetic cat,
Whimsical snake,
Gauche deer,
Undaunting shark,
Rough bunny,
Dull butterfly,
We’re all misfits. We’re all different....

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Good grief she was always
Gawdy from head to toe.
Gauche is too mild a word,
Grand would just be a hoax -
Goodlooking, that she was,
Glamorous was not close -
God, I loved her spirit!

November 30, 2016
For contest Pleiades G...

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A black cloud discriminates effortlessly,
forms gauche haunting images
justifying Kraken legend.
Malevolent nimbostratus
orchestrate prejudice quotable rain squalls,
travelling unbiased verifying
what xtremes yonder zoom.

© Harry J Horsman  2011...

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Giving alcohol to a hungry crying child instead of milk
Advising a teenager to neglect all parental advice
Unleashing so much anger when love is on public display
Courting the girl next door just to steal her puppy
Endless stupidity, heaping more stains on an already bad personality...

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Unaccustomed to the lingo
yet accustomed to the bling so
let it roll and rock and rot
regardless of the highbrow wot...

or china crystalled silver settings
designed Lenox gauche, just sayin' nothing
compared to what us fair groomed got
thank Daddy for the polyglot.

Of myth and spit and hum-drudgery
of how things never used to be
is time to wake up. Hope we do
'cause I'd like to live on, would you?...

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Fraud and deception of the affluent eyes
Toss my purpose aside and let me hemorrhage humiliation
Drops of unappreciative pain plaster and soil black  
Cackles to hide my mammoth of hurt
Echo through a maze of sovereigns and numeric cipher

I’m a non-significant member of manuscript
An unknown, a recluse, a bother
Gauche trials of loss and fray
Matter to none who play the game
Yet in our tightly packed world

The Joker is always included....

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These modern day girls,
they don't fall in love
like they did in the black and white movies,
no more Audrey Hepburns' sipping on chardonnays
and pursing gold flake cigarettes
over a bowl of delicate conversation

they're unsophisticated,
they puff on cigars
and gulp down jello shots
while attempting a balletic demeanor
as poetic as Grace Kelly

but their actual depiction
is gauche
and lacking the ability
to fool any heart,
especially Cary Grant's...

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Je blâme tu
Je vraiment faire
Chaque cligner
et chaque tort
entames the immense chagrin
parce que demain ne venir jamais
cruex nues
Le soleil reluire pas plus
Vous Gauche je avec non choix
Je suis si seul

I blame you
I really do
Each blink
and each wrong
Begins the heartbreak
because tomorrow will never come
Empty clouds
The sun shines no more
You left me with no choice
I am so alone

fatigue et si froid
debarrasser de eperer

Tired and so cold
Rid of hope...

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