Big Mistakes Are Plentiful

Yogi Bear stealing a picnic basket in the park
Noah ignoring the request to build an arc

Dorothy not knowing about ruby slippers
Letting the sharks get to poor little Flipper

Planning a celebration without pizzazz
The music world without soft jazz

Rolling Sisyphus’s boulder uphill
Allowing the revenuers to find the still

Believing the Milky Way is the whole universe
Thinking that things can never get worse

Swimming alone at the water filled quarry
Not listening with earnest to the entire story

Letting the old barn fall into decay
Acquiring goods without making pay

Of the things here mentioned do not partake
Because each and every one is a big mistake

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Big Mistakes Are Plentiful is my poem in response to Linda Kruschke’s Paint Chip Poetry Challenge Prompt #11. The challenge is to write a poem in response to the prompt card that includes at least five of the seven paint chip words or phrases. The prompt phrase is A Big Mistake and the prompt words are: pizzazz, ruby slippers, old barn, picnic basket, quarry, Sisyphus’s boulder, and Milky Way.