Short Best Laid Plans Poems

Peddled up the hill of life
Intent on coasting down

Discovered much to my chagrin
No place to turn around...

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miss apprehension feared
man’s best laid plans confounded
hurricane forecast

Brian Johnston
July 17, 2015...

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trap sprung, mouse missing
a Christmas gift left behind
spinning a grey tail

Brian Johnston
December 6, 2015...

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A flawless ceremony,
and elegant reception,
followed by long honeymoon 
delayed by snowfall.




For John Freeman's love /humor contest Won 2nd place...

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Against the winds of fate
The master set his sails
But a playful soul is he, young hazard
That duped astray bold gusts and gales
And set the sails to fate’s particular ways...

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Just when you think you got it made
Something comes along and destroys your parade
Best laid plans
Poop hits the fan  
All is for naught but I still wouldn't trade...

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>center>THE BEST LAID PLANS

I planned to marry her in spring – but then I found she had a husband

24th August 2020
When Plans Don't Go To Plan contest
Sponsor - Silent One...

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Best laid plans of both mice and men
Can surely go wrong, can screw up in the end
Your very best shot
Will be enough... NOT
Best laid plans... to the looney bin, you descend...

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The best laid plans of men unravel
while on a lesser road of travel,
     (If plans were made at all)
when by demand of gut and gavel,
dues must be paid to dirt and gravel
     for time spent in their thrall....

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Ann planned to lose her cherry in full moon, 
She even picked the month, that to be June.
Her hapless hopes had sunk, 
She hooked up with a hunk -
In the middle of December, at noon.

June 6, 2022...

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If you thought it kind, or perhaps naught
I'd write you a fine sonnet.

If it please'd I beg, on bended knee
a spirited song, or dutiful etheree..   
  
Alas a fly in pudding lies, a mote in sorrow'd eye
a snag in all best laid plans.. 
  
Tea time's nigh, so come sit beside    
and hold my hand....

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You buy some tickets, make some plans,
Anticipate an outing
But always with an asterisk
For naturally, you’re doubting…

‘Cause life throws curve balls and you can’t
Be looking for straight pitches.
“The best-laid plans,” the saying goes,
Are filled with unknown glitches.

And so you cancel, with a shrug,
The strikeout one small zinger,
As fate delights in pointing
With its well-known fickle finger....

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The Sardine

      (How the best laid plans
      can sometimes go wrong)


     The Sardine is an unusual fish,

     It spends all its life in a tin

     On top of a Superstore shelf

     So other fishes cannot get in.

     But their plan was not so ingenious

     As they sooner or later found out

     They left the opener on the outside

     Now the Sardines cannot climb out.


     01/16/18...

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The day the earth stood still, 
bells suspended in the tower, 
chimes froze in vacant space, 
nullified the hour. 
Her veil like spider web, 
stiff with Winter frost, 
hung upon the mannequin head, 
poignant and lost. 
His buttonhole carnation, 
a bullet wound lapel, 
blood red with cautious dying, 
in the dresser fell. 
And all the best laid plans 
unravel seam by seam, 
faint echoes in an empty church, 
never more to dream....

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Don't not let Babylon burn, 
Within her walls, 
Upon her streets. 
All wisdom shines. 

Fight the rage sacrificing your soul, 
Fight the world with all your might, 
Fight to keep the the dream alive. 

Let them crucify your generosity, 
Let them sneer at your foolish ways, 
You have your mind. 
The pain it belongs to you, 
It's yours to keep. 

The oracles the bloody oracles, 
Will choke on Delphian dust. 
as best laid plans. 
go up in flames....

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Don't not let Babylon burn, 
Within her walls, 
Upon her streets. 
All wisdom shines. 

Fight the rage sacrificing your soul, 
Fight the world with all your might, 
Fight to keep the the dream alive. 

Let them crucify your generosity, 
Let them sneer at your foolish ways, 
You have your mind. 
The pain it belongs to you, 
It's yours to keep. 

The oracles the bloody oracles, 
Will choke on Delphian dust. 
as best laid plans. 
go up in flames....

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Will there ever be a day
when grief and sorrow goes away?

Will memories provide and sustain
to drive away this awful pain.

Our best laid plans have come apart
could not foresee this broken heart.

What choice if any, was left to me
for this is what, has come to be.

Alone I forge life anew
a life devoid, and missing you!

I seek relief of better days
to whisk away my gloomy haze.

Perhaps some sun, I might find
to brighten skies of troubled mind....

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Perfect plans just don’t exist
No matter how you try.
It’s possible to nail the gist
But other parts won’t fly.

For circumstances do contrive
To ruin the precision
With which you kept your hopes alive
The way you did envision.

“The best laid plans of mice and men”
Is such a brilliant quote;
When Robert Burns put down his pen,
He knew a gem he wrote.

Such simple words and so succinct,
They perfectly suffice
To mark their message, long-time inked,
For us and also mice....

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Gradually reminders hover.
Between the hearts akin.
No matter if it is a brother.
Who lost his way in sin.

A family born is absolute.
There's no need to ask how.
God's presence is now resolute.
We're connected forever now.

Inter stellar cosmic clans.
With earthly mixed up ways.
Do their best with best laid plans.
In hope's, Mother's love stays.

The only song that we should sing.
Is one of help and hope.
And then compassion's joy can bring.
The strength to help us cope....

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