Making the Most (from mistakes)

"For today's prompt, write a mistake poem.Everyone makes mistakes.Yes, even that person standing in the cornershaking their head to the contrary.And even those people who don't admit to making mistakeshave 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 partof the human experience of learning;An education in kindness and humility! ***Mistakes are indeed terrible if we refuse to learn from them. ***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 driedand 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 blocksAnd dread the education learned in the school of hard knocksBut fumbles, stumbles and such can be blessings in disguiseTeaching us kinder sympathy and making us more wiseAs, looking back we realize the stumbling blocks we ruedWere, in fact stepping stones toward a greater gratitude Life’s ladders to success are riddled and scarred with mistakesBut they are not for naught if we have the courage it takesTo look them in the eye, admit the fault of it and thenPick up where we left off, humble enough to try againBecoming, through the blunder a more patient fellow friendBecause of the mistake that made us wiser in the end Sometimes it isn’t easy to let mistakes have their sayHuman nature wishes there would be an easier wayBut, be that as it may, we can learn much from our mistakesTo sweeten the success that follows in its weathered wakes(But, one kind word of caution as we enter Today’s SchoolThe same mistake repeated often, may expose the fool) Better to try and make mistakes than be fear’s captive, chainedBetter a venture failed than nothing ventured nothing gainedBetter to be a student of bungles than stand aloofBecause we are not brave enough to acknowledge reproofBetter to find, along the way, through detours Learning takesBeauty, discovered in the silver lining of mistakes © Janet Martin Oh, bitter regret of The MistakeBut oh, the wisdom in its wakeAnd oh, the gentler spirit won From what I wish I had not done