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Vanilla Afterthoughts

Strange how everything evolves except love
it just comes in one sweet-fleeting flavor-

Hate and destruction have evolved
We went from clubs, bow and arrow
to a fetish for nuclear diseases.
If love had evolved 
missiles would forever sleep in their rattlesnake dens
we'd have repurposed howitzers to flower gardens
black words would reverse course
before having intercourse with hate and death
but we're

Categories: afterthoughts, society,
Form: Free verse

Her Afterthoughts

Underneath the black and blue,
Is a woman who has always loved only you.
The bruises will eventually fade away.
But my scars I carry, will be here to stay.
I refuse to lie for you anymore.
The truth is out. You will not win this war.
My heart travels on, to meet that special one.
You can sit in mysery and

Categories: afterthoughts, abuse, farewell, for him,
Form: Rhyme

Afterthoughts

Observe gripe show crafty plot here:
A pungent steal glazes sweet mask;
Feel unease flow in awkward cheer;
Throw then false deal as burden tasks,
Expect fake mood most strange yet sour;
React in shock to blind brain freeze,
Touch hollow good in such false hours;
Hurl lock and stock in caustic squeeze,
Opt for lame peace in wrong attire;
Use vile cunning to

Categories: afterthoughts, allusion,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Afterthoughts

Come via 
moon gate. I will meet
you at midnight.

      *

Only in halfway 
house, I will find you
in dark.

      *

O my firefly,
why have you come
to a wingless bird in dusk ?


Satish Verma

Categories: afterthoughts, art,
Form: ABC

Afternoon Afterthoughts

Like a late afternoon afterthought,
a sudden, heavy downpour drenches
and floods the parched marshland.

Here and there, across what once was 
a mirror lake, wet grasses cast swaying, 
tapering shadows in the dying light.


As the skyline fades into the twilight,
exultations throaty and raucous echo
from new puddles, fresh waterholes.

Shrill jubilations of insects and night birds
fill the air, rejoicing

Categories: afterthoughts, nature
Form: Free verse