Afterwards Poems - Poems about Afterwards

Afterwards, Mithila

Afterwards, Mithila

Mithila, you may never know,
But I can sense- deep, unshakable…
Something strange stirs on my horizon.
Perhaps, a festive awaits,
A celebration of fleeting mortality
That rushes in, disrupting my dreams.

This life, Mithila,
Was never a weaver bird’s nest
Weaved it in hardship of life
That turned into a fleeting courtyard of sparrows.
And now, I drift closer to the edge,
To the

NIGHT WITH A STRANGER

On a cozy night, at home, house
Walking down a lonely road, without an exact location 
walking towards a specific direction, just for a companion
One of those boys in my streets, to play my new PS5 with
At late midnight, very dark, risky and lonely
Risky? For no one stays late at night in my streets
Lonely? For it's

Waiting For the Thawing of An Afterwards

Ice shrouds over the hunched houses
where blood and flesh huddle and wait.

An ice ravaged 
face rears up from an invisible earth
its fangs blackened by a tooth-aching light,
more flesh piercing incisors
dagger down from the clamped
and sunken roofs.

What wreckage there is, is buried
hidden from sight, but it is not
a clean landscape. Not a landscape at all
but a

Lost Potential

full of potential
like a timely three act play
the quintessential
long ago and far away
they would find no brighter day

locked close together
as if time could not move them
not knowing whether
they'd handle what was to come
their moorings became undone

hints of rejection
hiding in common place words
like introspection
repeating that's for the birds
little chance for afterwards

no use debating
their future left on

Afterwards

Afterwards.

Didn’t we once used to smile and laugh?
I can see that we seemed to be happy 
As I look at an old photograph.
But now our mouths
Seem almost paralysed
Or are tight and grim.
I vaguely recall a light in our eyes 
That seemed to shine from somewhere within.
Weren’t there different coloured faces?
Now we all seem to have

Afterwards

Afterwards

				And then it came to a end:
				  virus, lockdown, pandemic.
				The air was fresh once more, purged
				  of infection and sickness.
				The sun was brighter, refreshed;
				  people went to restaurants,
				in crowds to pubs and cinemas;
				  theatres opened, life resumed.
				Football matches, back to work,
				  parties, meeting friends, holidays,
				Just the way it used to

Afterwards

a red butterfly
lit upon a marigold ~
late day shadows fell


May 7, 2020

Afterwards In Heaven's Garden

Afterwards in heaven’s garden
Where I find no weed or thorn;
Only stoneless soil unhardened,
Life is verdant, newness born.

Rows of hedges, trees, and flowers
Vibrant in their colors fair
Beauty floods my eyes for hours
Unconstrained by time, I stare.

I can find no signs of dying
Only life and peace - rebirth
No more sounds of grief-fraught crying
That I once knew while

So Called New Friends Hangers On and What Happens Afterwards

Sorry ,
My friend and confident of days old

Do not fret
Regret is wasted until the cost is met

I still hold you in high regard 
I still remember you covered in your mothers make-up 
And sitting on the naughty step

Until 
Fame and success took hold of you

Before

Everybody grew through you
Not beside or along with you

You lifted while

The Afterwards Breeze

A cyclone and a whirlwind,
        a twister of a typhoon;
        capricious, turbulent,
        winds mighty and destructive.

          After a calming cool
    ensuing gentle

Afterwards

Buzz blind
Meek mind


Still squeeze
Brisk breeze 


Notes niche
Ride rich


Brown bits
Worn wit


Tell tale
Prick pale


Nude nice
Smooth spice


Juice joy
Taste toys


Play proud
Leap loud


End etch
Sound sketch


Good game
Boom blame


Prize pain
Grand gain




Leon Enriquez
19 June 2018
Hamlet Place, ACT

Afterwards

The mind always knows the reasons and whys you are no longer here,
The heart counters, but I feel a longing and void, because you are not near,
The spirit, which produces the laughter, silliness, and smiles,
now needs some time to recover,
from the absence of one so dear.

Afterwards

Be
Being
Becoming


Light
Sight
Seeing


Touch
Senses
Knowing


Hint
Tint
Minting


Heart
Soul self
Thinking


Awake
Aware
Enlighten


Bloom
Groom
Feeling


Loiter 
Linger
Laughter


Wander
Emerge
Wonder


Forward
Afterward
Circle 


Chance
Change
Cycles


Guilt
Shame
Regret


Life
Love
Eternal


Fun
Wit
Playground


Here now
Afterwards
All things pass




Leon Enriquez
18 September 2014
Singapore

About Afterwards

about afterwards
the anguish following
her words

Afterwards

The button now pressed ¬~
In modern melted mould, we ~¬~
now die, a spent race ¬~








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