Best Miscounted Poems

There once was a poet who despaired
though blessed with a fair amount of flair
that he was way too thick
to master limericks
counting words an arduous affair 

Limerick-writing he'd master not
count sillybulls, meter and whatnot 
the elusive punchline's
too troublesome to find
with his thoughts roughly tied up in...

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Love in Winter

                              A winterbed with ice cold feet is hot.
These snowy buds outshine the season’s...

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Santa’s Promise


My Granny was riding a reindeer,
out back on the lawn by our shed.
It looked like a bull riding contest
but the horns were a rack instead.

My Papa was sitting and watching
while he cheered for the bucking steer.
Oh Dad, I don’t know what you’re drinking
but that...

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True history indeed
'Father Time' just doing his thing
Distant memories, it seems
But Miss reality forces us to grapple with this pain
Manacles of the body and mind
Yet, is the spirit still free, or not?
So long to Jim Crow
Even those infamous white sheets seem to have vanished
It's funny...

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IT WAS A SETUP

In the beginning the was word
And the word became flesh
It was a setup! When a virgin was with a child
And the little child shall lead them.

Et tu, Brute? Et tu, Brute?
In exchange of your brothers blood for the kisses of death? Oh!...

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  I always fall asleep on my cat
And she stays with me all night to make sure I am not faking it
What she doesn't know, is that I am NOT asleep

There I am
Lying on an oversized cushion of springs and dust
Wondering if the...

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***Show your teeth the doctor said your diagnosis is complete you're half- dead half-alive you are suffering from Schrödinger equation syndrome.....
** Funny tales are funny because they tell our stories............
**My wife Sarah's nose is a pitchfork which lifts scents of my doing-nothings....
**Three orphan kittens call...

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I have two words to say to you:
"Happy Valentine's Day!"
Sorry, I miscounted them--
I guess I'm no Hemingway

So let me think a bit
on what I want to convey,
I'm just trying to find the two
that lightly float up my airway

Search and search I must 
to find two...

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Frilly
Chilly
Hilly
Silly
Willy nilly frilly chilly chin
Loony giddy hilly silly grin


** syllable counter miscounted my syllables - 6th line is 9 syllables not 8** 
Submitted for contest WRITE ME A TYBURN sponsored by KIM RODRIGUES -January 22, 2018  -  RANKED 1ST...

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Deep are the questions, like quicksand sinking
Seeping into a restless mind pressing
Weeping with release, yet overthinking
Sleep comes uneasy with dreams distressing

Heaps of concepts lead to faulty linking
Steeping upon words without expression
Sheep are miscounted with rapid blinking
Leaping to conclude a wrong impression

12-10-2020...

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There is a beautiful poem
I hid it in the best place 
I could find
Above the sea
Below the sky
Above your nose 
Embedded within your eyes
 
I look to you
Looking at me
I hid it hoping 
Someday you'd see
There is a poem
A poem of mine
Hidden in the last...

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Fresh baked cookies of gingerbread;
a joyful scent wafts through the house.
Christmas Cheer will spread this year
as custard and cookies abound.

Mom takes out a second batch, 
but something is amiss, 
her first batch of Gingerbread men,
is missing one of its pals!

I must’ve miscounted she surmised and...

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She was surprised to see her father
Then her parents eagerly planned her future
He was college
Mom wanted marriage
They argued for hours
It was the longest she was her mother n father
No one ask her what she wanted
It was her vote that was miscounted
They boxed her out
and made...

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With a tail flash she transmogrified from a lightning bolt
Showing her fierceness in the most female like way
Those who looked up were terrified, and terrorized
They had heard of Ghost Dragon but myth did not do her justice

She was slashing and crashing, showing turbulent teeth
The air...

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   Let's see how this goes.
   A means of logical thought.
   Taking inductive first,
   What has been observed to make life worse.

   People are not having fun,
   Appear to be quite glum.
 ...

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