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Afterthoughts Poems - Poems about Afterthoughts


Premium Member 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...

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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...

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



Premium Member 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...

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Categories: afterthoughts, allusion,
Form: Sonnet
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...

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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...

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Categories: afterthoughts, nature
Form: Free verse




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