Short Misheard Poems

Melania called in the dog
But Donald misheard her call, "Hog"
He went to the table
To tweet a new fable
And found that he lived in a fog...

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The TV ad said Hunny Gadgets
She misheard it as Bunny Habits
Her bunnies won’t breed
She typed at high speed
She’s just ordered two Rampant Rabbits...

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I've been misunderstood 
By the strangers in my life 
Listen 
I wish they would 

I've been misheard 
By the ears in my life 
Listen 
They don't and it hurts...

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Salome just loved gingerbread
But Herod misheard what she said
Who wants a dead head
To bounce in their bed?
So she dashed to the John instead


*Title inspired by Special Character, Ilene Bauer...

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In a Bangkok dry cleaners window, “Drop your trousers here”
But they get lots of curious people with nothing to clean I fear
Takes all kinds it seems
Making up the world's scene
But this takes the cake or maybe I just misheard ...

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He is a crackshot I told his great-grandpa
Grandpa misheard; he thought I called him a crackpot
It took awhile for us to sort it out
In the meantime, grandpa was angry, showing a pout.
Not sure he ever fully understood
The beginning of dementia is never good....

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There was an old man on a cart,
Acquaintances knew him as Bart,
As he only ate beans,
He inflated his jeans,
And smelt of a permanent fart…

Inspired by She’s Like the Wind (which I misheard as She’s Got the Wind, lol)
For Giorgio’s A Song Inspires a Poem contest...

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If ‘Beethoven’s Fifth’ foretold fate 
Rapping on humanity’s door,
Then what were Napoleon’s armies for?

When we challenge fate 
By declaring war,
What dire results do we ignore?

Are all our beliefs 
And Holy Scriptures,
Based on misheard 'Chinese whispers'?
...

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Avalanche

She tried to always be smiling,
She tried to always be good,
She tried to do everything right,
To help everyone that she could.


One misunderstanding.
One misheard word.


                               And without the slightest notion
                                    An avalanche of emotion....

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# _expression
Not an ounce of simple
But a dash of complex
my paintbrush or pencil  
_is how I express

Much value is lost
In spoken word
Too high, a cost 
To be misheard 

Insert a tune 
The words may follow
Authenticity blooms
No longer, hollow 

Emotions evoked
Kindred spirits
If only, you spoke
Who would hear it...

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When I was young, a dining needle
Was the term we used
To name a flying insect, but
Turns out we were confused.

For darning needle is another
Phrase for dragonfly.
If you see one up close, then you
Will know the reason why.

Its thin and tapered body looks
Like what we’d use to sew,
But “darning” is a word that many
People do not know.

And so a word misheard became
A means of us defining
The dragonfly, which we assumed
Was out to do some dining....

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