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Afterthoughts Poems - Poems about Afterthoughts

To Ponder or Not to Ponder
...To ponder or not to ponder - that is the question. Is it a waste of my precious seconds, minutes, hours To dwell on the questions that plague my mind? I spend my waking and waning hours mulling an......

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Categories: afterthoughts, 11th grade, conflict, devotion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Fueled
...Just because I don’t speak your language Don't mean I can’t feel your pain And maybe I can’t understand your signals But I understand the tears rolling off your cheeks I understand the pressure o......

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Categories: afterthoughts, anger, corruption, dark, evil,
Form: Free verse



shattered n whole
... Like glass catching light scatter across the sky each shard a silver of history a world once whole now dispersed into the quiet between afterthoughts Time drips at its edge sp......

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Categories: afterthoughts, allegory, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member after the storm abates
...after the storm the sky sighs relieved the rage has expired with a rolling fade rumble all is quelled to quietude after rain a damp dank shroud covers the earth utterly enveloping everything ......

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Categories: afterthoughts, storm,
Form: Jueju
Haunted
...I'm going to leave my mark on all of these walls I am becoming a ghost in my own life Screaming running through the halls the vigor of my youth waltzing in shadow far behind me Afterlife aftertho......

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Categories: afterthoughts, absence, art, dark,
Form: Free verse



Sky Ghosts
...The drifts move their white weight as if the heaps themselves were snowplows. Again the sky dumps afterthoughts, the packed mounds are remodeled under new wind-plantings. When the land is a......

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Categories: afterthoughts, poetry,
Form: Free verse
There's More That Falls Below the Iceberg
...Does my head in the guillotine promptly paint me guilty? My last meal, a full plate of your golden excuses But any attention means so much to me We’re going in circles, But feel free to say yo......

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Categories: afterthoughts, absence, extended metaphor, friend,
Form: Free verse
Azure Dreams Unfolding Westward
...In the dance of thoughts, we twirl, a symphony of whispered musings. Words, delicate as a butterfly's kiss, flutter from our lips, sometimes exquisite, sometimes in the gentle decay of letters. ......

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Categories: afterthoughts, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Labyrinth of Sighs
...Labyrinth of Sighs Wondering through a labyrinth of sighs More platitudes with attitudes that never question why A litany of afterthoughts about where we go when we die An emboldened range ......

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Categories: afterthoughts, life,
Form: Rhyme
Infinite Intimacy
...If you do the opposite of what God tells you, are you listening to you? And if you do what God tells you, aren't you listening to you? Just a question that made my head spin. No answer needed, bu......

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Categories: afterthoughts, god, self,
Form: Prose
Astral Travelers
...Some astral jumpers land inside their flying suits like skydiving parachutists, others are thrown naked into places where thoughts are fig leaves. Then they shoot off like toothpaste from ......

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Categories: afterthoughts, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Not the Choosen-
...Nominative absolutes Options TTherapeutic endings displayed Hhappy afterthoughts of eternal life External affairs resonating ......

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Categories: afterthoughts, analogy, desire, destiny,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Sensual Loss Sensual Gain
...Her golden locks glide grandly through our gladioli gilded garden gateway, I gulp ginormous groundbreaking gulleys, telltale tear tsunamis cut cataclysmic currents, raw reckless rupture of romant......

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Categories: afterthoughts, birth, color, courage, deep,
Form: Alliteration
Once I Dreamed a Little Dream
...it was of someone I once knew but I did not yet know it was of love and kindness a union of spirit a familiar soul but this was only a dream drifting in my night my heart takes flight du......

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Categories: afterthoughts, allegory, angel, angst, art,
Form: Free verse
Oranges and Oil Ii
...Orange and oil The old man smells odd like burnt wires Black & cryptic desires oranges and oil! Static erupts like infinite fire. Noise white grows in volume, even higher. oranges and o......

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Categories: afterthoughts, allegory, america, analogy, angst,
Form: Free verse

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