Today's poem-a-day prompt from Robert Brewer @Writer's Digest
"For today's prompt, write a mistake poem.
Everyone makes mistakes.
Yes, even that person standing in the corner
shaking their head to the contrary.
And even those people who don't admit to making mistakes
have seen others make them.
So whether it's the mistakes you've made,
witnessed in others, etc., write a poem about it today."
A few wisdom-gems from Prov. 28...
Many are the mistakes authored by impatience.
But many mistakes are also simply part
of the human experience of learning;
An education in kindness and humility!
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Mistakes are indeed terrible if we refuse to learn from them.
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Yesterday I made the mistake of thinking I could dash from the paint pail to the
door I was painting without dripping on the uncovered part of the carpet.
I was wrong! thankfully I noticed the drip before it was totally dried
and much scrubbing later it was resolved!
Not all mistakes are quite that easily rectified, are they?!
Sometimes we mistake the mistakes we make as stumbling blocks
And dread the education learned in the school of hard knocks
But fumbles, stumbles and such can be blessings in disguise
Teaching us kinder sympathy and making us more wise
As, looking back we realize the stumbling blocks we rued
Were, in fact stepping stones toward a greater gratitude
Life’s ladders to success are riddled and scarred with mistakes
But they are not for naught if we have the courage it takes
To look them in the eye, admit the fault of it and then
Pick up where we left off, humble enough to try again
Becoming, through the blunder a more patient fellow friend
Because of the mistake that made us wiser in the end
Sometimes it isn’t easy to let mistakes have their say
Human nature wishes there would be an easier way
But, be that as it may, we can learn much from our mistakes
To sweeten the success that follows in its weathered wakes
(But, one kind word of caution as we enter Today’s School
The same mistake repeated often, may expose the fool)
Better to try and make mistakes than be fear’s captive, chained
Better a venture failed than nothing ventured nothing gained
Better to be a student of bungles than stand aloof
Because we are not brave enough to acknowledge reproof
Better to find, along the way, through detours Learning takes
Beauty, discovered in the silver lining of mistakes
© Janet Martin
Oh, bitter regret of The Mistake
But oh, the wisdom in its wake
And oh, the gentler spirit won
From what I wish I had not done
From what I wish I had not done
