Long Misspoke Poems

Took a breath
Of your death
Upon my tongue…
Burnt a lung…
In the process
Of my hopeless state
I’m making progress
As of late, as of late

So young and awkwardly long
I can’t believe I don’t belong
So wrong, it feels right all...

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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...

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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...

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

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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...

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overheard someone quietly frightened
by the stupid ****ing Mayan calendar 
ending, someone sold the “apocalypse”
shit, 
hook
line &
sinker,
who still eats it up, eats it up, eats it up,
regardless of how many scientists you
throw in their face,
regardless of...

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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...

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In a dream of bare, I awoke
In the blared walls, it misspoke
The winds of Auria eluded in the cascading windows which then provoked 
Envisions of  Auria descended through the glistening saint
Without a flair, I...

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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...

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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...

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Pastels and enamels O’ that I am become a painting;
Mist the colors of beige, tan and browns;
Wrapped around the rainbow;
Contrast each and every stroke;
Liken a poet I color for the words;
Painted rainbows, a blended strokes...

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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...

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On the Good Ship Bubble-Pop

Bubbles, see-throughs, delicate floats,
of voyaged sailless boats,
her captain gauge the air around,
blue cast where none e'er drown,
farther distance -- misspoke, rising,
shapeless bows devising,
now turned admiral, sees...

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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...

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The Lesser Of Two Evils
(Always Gets My Vote)
Miracle Man
10/7/2024

What once were blatant lies, 
are now merely, “I misspoke.“
Are us non degree folks stupid,
or is it another political joke?

Politicians tour the country smiling,
shaking hands and grooving.
But...

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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...

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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...

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