Best Misspoke Poems

Ferreting around, in dumpsters of dreams
In the back alleys of my imagination
Through swill, liaisons, and cheap rendezvous
And words misspoke in conversations
Rummaging for one morsel, an old tattered remnant
In a disregarded or discarded memory
For that one piece of the puzzle, a maggot's repast
To feed a starving,...

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There once was a family named Keets
         They spoke             in a series of tweets
     Goldie was     ...

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Joe Biden now rules our White House
Together with his 'doctor' spouse.
   His blunders, for sure-
   We have to endure;
To caring, he does not espouse.

Those mishaps, like names he misspoke-
For sure, were not meant as a joke.
   But much worse...

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I began life as a gorilla – cumbersome and chunky.
I clunked my way into situations, abrasive and loud. 
I also misrepresented and misspoke. 
Rapidly became misunderstood and ostracized.
Life was not working...

So I transmogrified myself into a butterfly.
Flitting from place to place, not staying long enough...

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He slept under the No Parking Sign, newspapers for a coat.
The doctors said he was long  gone.
I believe that they misspoke.
He wandered to and fro at night for he was scared to death of sun.
They gave him electric shocks few times.
Should have given him...

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Every news media captures horrendous photos with a story
Where has our pride gone as we praise these Lands of Glory 
Is it possible that media ratings have well surpassed the truth 
Where anything goes right or wrong regardless of the proof

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Every time I turn on...

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MISSPOKE
BYE BLOKE

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Footles are fun. Two lines.  Two Syllables each line. Must rhyme
Special Thanks to Andrea Dietrich for my "must rhyme" lesson....

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Lady Melanie with silver locks
Loved her bonbons, bagels, and graved lox.
Curmudgeon geezers viewed her a fox,
But she loved them less than chicken pox.

Melanie kept free as best she could.
She allowed no time for coquetry
Or Penelope-style stitchery.
But three bores persistence understood.

Trini, a jet jockey CEO
Lived his...

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© Ben Burton 7/22/2015

The day will come when I won't write another word
The day won't come when Bond decides he wants it stirred
The day will come when those who've read me pass away
Then none will know a single word I had to say

But Scarlet, Scout,...

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Tiny chances of slender hopes, that broke.
On your lies i can only pray, you choke.
Not ever was a single word, misspoke.
Scattered tattered moral beliefs, a joke.

But buoyant dreams that fill my head, are stoked....

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And at the day's end
When I'm feeling tired
And I'm all alone

And when my head speaks
And my heart churns
The battle rages on

And I've got God sitting
And his counterpart
On one shoulder each

And they're voicing it
What they've come to say
What they've come to teach

"See it's your fault
You don't...

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Special,


she came

she finally came out 
out of the dark, the shadow
cut down from the rope that binds
leaving just The Word behind

we are blind when we don't see

not the surface but the grains
of time, of circumstance
leading and misleading
followers only looking for trust

who shall they trust if...

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Never misstepped
    never misspoke
  Her bearing impeccable
    equilibrium evoked

  Adored by her subjects
    bewigged barrister... blimy bloke
  Tears flood the world's heart
    its queen's not awoke...

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There once was a young lass 
Who wanted some quick cash, 
And one Sunday she did pray at mass 
With God’s answer was ‘this surely will pass’. 

Not knowing what to say  
She left the church without a way 
To get some pay 

Then...

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President Joseph Biden



Is Joe Biden really our President?
That most obtuse White House resident!
Who brought back 1982 sky high inflation!
And thinks he is the MD of this nation?


Only the most dense, buy all his excuses.
Surprised he does blame it on missing Muses!
I feel sorry, when his...

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