Short Miscalculation Poems

A blooper, a blunder, a bungle, a botch
A miscue, a misstep, misjudgment and more
A faux pas, a boo-boo, a bumble for sure
A miscalculation, a miscomputation, grade goes down a notch....

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Dont brake the silence
dont say a word
my miscalculation was big
my mistake was bold
I cant see in your eyes
what I was looking for
familiarity played a type of trick
I had never seen before.

Jessica...

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AMBITION
I burn my heart, my soul and my spirit for your ambition
Everything is sensitive and sensation
The flower is blossoming for the best redemption
Don't you see the time is the miscalculation
Tr?n Minh Hi?n Hien Tran Orlando December 18, 2016...

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Imagine red...
A bed, of candy roses
Deeper still
Into a thicket of thorns 

Further, crimson
In a sea of lipstick kisses
Or adorned...
By a nest of word stung hornets

All relies on the side she wakes
One slight, midnight miscalculation
Sets my day off and into dire straits...

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Sitting betwixt these margins outside their box; exactly
Where they wish as need to be ? Growing somewhat weary
Artsy-craftsy's aurora australis articulations; dangling in poetics
Literaturistic high wires acts an arobic miscalculation ? Lese majesty
Essential's evolution morphed their scenes alabaster she and, a revolution....

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What went wrong with the plan
That I should be here?
A rare miscalculation, a muddle and confusion
That I was meant to be.

Did your attention drift to give me the
Blessed curse of life and choice?

A dog perhaps, dragonfly, or book,
A shrub or stream I should be.

Do you know by now the mistake you made
That I should have a soul?...

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the greatest misfortune of {us}
is that you only seem to recall 
a few black pages of our relations
nonchalantly tossing aside the gilded chapters
that made up the volumes of our past...

your miscalculation...you sought to suck satin 
out of a denim man  
always a shade less than your expectation
a texture that rouged your mental skin..

and of what cloth do you drape yourself in
nowadays...

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His client had a leg amputation

   Oops! Wrong leg due to miscalculation

      His client wanted to sue

         But as the attorney knew

            No leg to stand on for litigation

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved

Placed No. 2 in Carolyn Devonshire's "Lawyer Limerick" Contest - August 2010

(Last line based on the old saying "You Ain't Got A Leg To Stand On")...

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The Forest floor sodden, after thaw.
Widow makers out/in horizontal draw.
Stalactites, waiting 
for the mis-trodden, 
like web and spider maw. 
For miscalculation, error in judgment.
Spinning disc through the tree-blind.
But you've been sent.
To get help, medicine, equipment.
Of a dire kind, in dire need.
They are counting on you.
Become the wind through the trees,
like elemental spirit,
laugh at the faceslaps of daggered L' eaves. 
More speed....

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