Best Afterthought Poems

when all the world has had its fill

of bluster, lies and war

I trust the silence I can't hear

will be louder than before....

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JE SUIS CHARLIE — Afterthought

The shock of this most frightening tragedy is practically beyond 
the pale of any reasonable or adequate attempt or effort to explain
it or to rationalize the horrible circumstances surrounding it.

Let me just say that all of us who are writers and poets ply our
poetry, “our intellectual wares,” if you will, in...

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Upon the roof, outside the walls,

                              now tapping soft its whispered calls,

              ...

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Here is just a little clue,   
Look inside the words I write,
Other words hide in there, too,
When packed in tight, they unite.

Scapegoat is the first one,
I don’t think a goat’s aware,
Escaping from this poem,
That his pelt might need repair.

Afterthought is complex too,
A thought that comes thereafter,
After all the work is through,
Thought-too-late distractor.

Airbag? Are...

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To you I'm just an afterthought
Endearing name that you forgot
A half remembered romance plot
A once frequented sacred spot

To you I'm just an alibi
Some one to cover up the lie,
for when you're with your ride or die
The hush of do not question why

To you I'm just a sideline thing
Someone to keep there in the wing
Who'll nurse...

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I smile with knowing and anguish. 
I live and remember in the after thought.
All the things I could have done.
Everyone I could have been.
I live in the afterthought. 

And everything from before seems so much sweeter. 
And appreciation runs abound. 
And I cherish things I ignored or accepted as mine. 
But they're not mine anymore.

And...

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Paris November 13th Makes Me Weep — Afterthought

The shock and tragedy of this most horrendous event of slaughter, murder, and unmitigated evil are indeed a very sad commentary on the state mankind finds itself in today as the dark specter of terrorism and chaos attempts to engulf our entire world.

We can never forgive and we...

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O!  Afterthought, Thou art a stern Taskmaster!
Thy Glare’s as gentle, as is Sun on Snow!
O!  Heart!  Would She have stayed, if I had asked her?

Admittedly, there’s no grimmer disaster,
Than sudden fury rupturing House and Row!
O!  Afterthought, Thou art a stern Taskmaster!

Amid the clods and falling dust and plaster,
Will we know we...

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After I’d been made to eat dessert, 
You’d take me into your bedroom, 
Recall a memory of us and assert, 
With balloons no despair or gloom.


17/12/2015...

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this is how it is,
scribbled on a midnight script,
one thought is to play -
a hare takes a moonlit leap,
another smells its warm blood....

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The calls come in 
like a bored neighbor
I respond as if 
I’m doin’ them a favor

I force a smile 
my face starts to crack
they wanna talk 
I say I’ll call them back

I watch a film 
to try to justify my mood
a documentary
to focus my point of view

gain perspective 
suppress my selfish thoughts
before I’m exposed
like the...

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I siphoned you, from off the pale skin of the pool
pollen thin and yellow dust,
sweet gone by and ready to slip to soil
hindered by chlorine
and tap danced on by a thousand night bugs
who trampolined in silver ripples 
when only the moon was looking.

I spat you out, rust and tang from the old green hose
which sat...

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Afterthought

There is a great assurance of the heart,
relating all our fates to up above
and life’s a voyage plotted on God’s chart
occurrences, mixed gently with His love. 
Decisions made which were not very smart,
within His plan have very minor parts.

1/23/17 ...

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Significance Is An Afterthought

Time is defined by what it does not measure
There is something going on between each minute
I think they call it waiting
So wait a minute….. Sorry ….. I got nothing

Walking out the door one sun drenched afternoon
To find another door for missing moments
Down the road while walking off the world
(I always knew the...

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Afterthought

They sat together chair by chair 
two spinster sisters Mae and Clare
in the bleak silence of a room
emitting sadness and some gloom
a service for their spinster friend
who passed away so quietly
a fitting tribute to the end
she kept her secrets in her heart
to no one would she dare impart

they bought a gravestone to inscribe
a sentence in...

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