Life often seems nothing but one mistake after another, yet we always pull through don’t we. Poetry is a great way to reflect on the hazards of living, all those little daily errors we make — and even sometimes the really big slip ups.
Each one of these poems about mistakes is an original one written just for Shadow of Iris. You won’t find it anywhere else. It’s time for you to trip on some poesy that hopefully sets you up a bit more right than you were before!
I Made a Mistake Poem
by Foh Pah
I made a mistake,
oh yes, I did!
I admit I ate the cake.
I made a mistake!
Indeed, it’s quite true!
and I see now that you did bake
that cake that I ate.
I made a mistake,
there’s no doubt at all,
but rest assured when I awake
I’ll feel just like a snake
about that cake that I ate.
I made a mistake!
I can’t deny it;
But can’t you see how I shake?
Understand, tomorrow when I awake,
oh, I’ll feel just like a snake
about that cake that I ate.
I made a mistake!
You can’t know how bad I feel,
because I know that I’m a fake;
that’s just why I shake,
can’t you feel the quake?
But though I made a mistake,
surely you see that I ache
and so know that I’ll bake
you an all new cake!
All Your Mistakes, a poem
by Justin Thyme
Familiar assumptions are pulled out
from under your feet until you are floating
in a world of elegant error.
Relevant information is hard to find
in the stream of data flowing past you
you reach only inaccuracies and indiscretions.
It’s question of logic, pure and simple,
stretched thin to the point where it is breaking
over slips and lapses.
Mathematical forms come alive,
geometrical entities that dance around you
and laugh at all your mistakes.
Whispered Mistakes, a poem
by Emma Blue
One might be inclined to say
Just about anything
If they were a fool.
But I do not see my mistake
As crude as that.
No, I thought our love
Was beyond all experience
Not just some flimflam construct —
But an eternal law.
I thought we would set the world straight
Once and for all, forever.
I thought we were a cannon ball
That couldn’t be stopped
Headed all the way to that place
Where revelation explodes into truth.
Instead, we met our waterloo,
Leaky drips, sappy tears,
Arguments over nothing …
And then you cheated —
Yet still you are here
A ghost that haunts me in the night
With whispers
Of all my mistakes.
“You said you wanted to be around when I made a mistake, well, this could be it, sweetheart.” — Han Solo
“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.” ― Oscar Wilde
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