Short Missteps Poems

Movies

Project 

Separation's glory

And missteps..

And

Seem the reality

With nothing

Projecting..

Characters galore

Not knowing 

Their stardom......

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maidens of error
missteps, mistakes, mishaps ...
milestones to wisdom




11/6/2022

Accepting responsibility and learning from your mistakes are milestones to wisdom....

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A tear
 a flood of emotion
 a salty cleansing
 of mistakes and missteps;
a weeping in anticipation
 an ocean tide of mourning
 the ebb and flow of living
 and dying to existence....

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It's like being thrown into a dance,
  without even knowing the steps.
It is your one and only chance,
  so you curse all of your missteps.
Your heart beats out of your chest.
As your resilience is put to the test....

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Thoughts
are bridges...
 occasionally fragile,
 occasionally
delusional...
Feelings
are vacancies that
the sea of life
lick, later
drains...
And we
missteps,
we were looking for
shelter,
Islands
cuddling...!...

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go back erase 
paths taken in vain 
go back wipe slate clean
of mistakes made
go back dissolve 
moments of missteps 
made that have lead 
to this present path 
press the delete button 
on the past press rebut
on this existence...

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Queen's
These Are The Days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB4K0scMysc


Regrets often fester in the background,
 missteps and mistakes held in memory
each and everyone
 should be let go.

That was then
and can never be changes
and
this is now....

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Starburst-pink fingernails
painted for her first dance.
A stomp, a pirouette.
All the missteps of chance

is she, a foolish girl.
Is she a foolish girl?

On this platform of lights
she’s featuring a pose –
turn, turn again, and turn,
turn, turn – a compass rose....

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hit rock bottom
fell into a whole 
of one's own making 
created from years 
of mistakes that 
have pilled up 
atop one another 
creating an emotional 
cave in creating a
grand canyon sized 
whole to be constructed 
within the land of 
the past self's missteps...

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Memory
 becomes the reality 
 of all that was.
The hardening or softening of the arteries of the heart
 that place where love grew or died
 in the errors and missteps of our lives.
With sleep,
 dreams revive
 visions and images form
 true false memories
putting everything to right....

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Most days, my thoughts
Are consumed by phantom pugilism
With things that once were
But long in absentia.

I re-trace the missteps,
That became teaching tools,
In the grandeur of life;

My unspoiled moments,
The fourth dimension has purloined,
Leaving me to mark time
With no pronounced purpose....

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mediocre 
existence 
fell into 
it without
noticing 
it was 
happening 
fell in a hole 
of my own 
making 
created a dull
future through 
past missteps 
made 
did not 
understand 
the future 
ramifications 
of my actions 
at the time
if i had i would 
have not made 
may unwarranted 
decisions...

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many things 
have became 
overlooked over 
time 
many things 
have been 
overshadowed 
covered with 
resentments stain
years of misunderstandings 
years of misrepresentation
years of missteps 
years of unmended mistakes
have all accumulated 
a top one another to 
create this valley of 
emotional estrangement...

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Clumsy in my missteps 
And clumsy with my words
Tripping over my own feet
And now tripping over yours

Clumsy with my quick words
And clumsy in my steps
My venom tongue will sting you
And can take away your breath

Never said I’m graceful
And now you know it’s true
Can I dare forgive myself 
This dire crime of wounding you?...

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Make Past Mistakes A Friend
Written: by Tom Wright
1/7/2013

I’ll fret not o’er those items,
That I’m powerless to amend;
Nor mark I time with those, 
That has long laid in retreat.

For my missteps of yesterday,
 Can surely become my friend; 
With this accumulated knowledge,
I’ll lack a propensity to repeat.
...

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circumstance 
led to happenstance
five short years ago
we gave love a chance
to intertwine us 
in this intriguing dance
slowly at first, no missteps
nice and easy, not too complex
the tempo changed to a sultry slide
feelings rose that we couldn't hide
passions grew, bodies complied
six years later, four kids sleeping 
by our sides...

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My words the result
  of the times I’ve lived
  not a classroom exercise 

My feelings all paid
  with the blood of my fears
  not a rambling diatribe 

My trail has been lined
  with each tear and misstep
  to mark the way ahead 

My life a memory
  telling a tale
   —whose direction my soul has led

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2018)...

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Thought’s Aroused
Written by: Tom Wright
9/13/2012
 
Most days, my thoughts
Are consumed by phantom pugilism
With things that once were
But long in absentia.

I re-trace the missteps, 
That became teaching tools,
In the grandeur of life; 

My unspoiled moments,
The fourth dimension, has purloined,
Leaving me to mark time
With no pronounced purpose;
...

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Two of them are for the steering wheel;
To drive unsafely is to be a heel. 
One is to make penciled calculations;
To make missteps is to spoil relations. 
Two more make amorous advances;
Based on calculations, he has good chances.
One makes careful notes, oh so detailed,
So, one day, his memoirs can be retailed.
Two are needed to solemnly pray 
That a baby spider is not on its way....

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Missteps, mishaps and mistakes

In a World of tears and fears
A world of half light and shadows
Where night is a fool… days last for years
And the only way out…is the gallows

Terrible are the times in a man’s life
When feelings of kinship
Seem lost in the night
And hatred diminishes the light

…After all It all ends in tears and in sorrow…

66 words-10 lines
...

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Today I climbed to the top of the mountain.
I rested there, and looked out over my life.
I didn’t expect the path to be so hard, I thought
There would be places to rest along the way.

I looked long at my life below…the twists
And turns, the successes, the missteps.
The afternoon filled with “what-ifs”
And old memories…joys and tears.

                 In time I’ll put my head down and sleep……...

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Facing the Future
By: Tom Wright
8/1/2018

The place we’re presently found will be scant,
And our future is about unknown change,
That might, or might not, enchant.

But yesterday will always remain the same,
And learning to accept what is and will be,
Is a most important part of the game?

Our missteps had effect on each of the three,
God wants us to let go of what was,
And exercise more faith in what will be.
...

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inexhaustible days and nights
always solitary
forever despondent 
incessantly wretched
countless years have passed 
nothing changes
older but no wiser
still making mistakes
taking missteps
confused, baffled, sometimes bamboozled
has smiled, laughed and pretended 
to be all right 
no one looks real close 
no one sees that she is 
continually fighting back the tears
never knowing why, but always constant
relentless unwavering sorrow...

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hit a wall....
on the path of 
growth 
hit a wall....
came this far
but now it seems
as if i have
hit a wall....
external factors 
are holding me back 
no longer internal factors 
are to blame
hit a wall....
past missteps are
tripping up the process
past mistakes are
causing waves within 
the sea of change 
hit a wall....
can not seem to 
be able to jump over
these hurdles any more
its getting harder and harder to 
do so
hit a wall.......

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On that last unsuccessful date 
he had entered a hotel 
through its revolving doors…
missing the right turn, the precise gap
in which to step forward, 
he staggered rearwards onto the back glass, 
then bounced, like a jack rabbit 
into the foyer.
She, of course, coolly witnessed 
this untimely comic entrance.
When he sheepishly handed her
the crushed and bedraggled roses,
he knew that he was definitely not 
getting laid that night
and possible ever....

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