Best Belated Poems

Professor Abdul Kalam the luminous brilliant star

I pay homage to you from here in Dar

Great brill scientist in the field of Aerospace

A noble man with an intellectual mien and grace



Aeronautics and more were his speciality wow!

He's referred to as India's best known nucleur Scientist.

An inventive...

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNE-LISE!!!!!


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Everyone loves our dear sweet Charmaine
This adorable young lady of Poetry Soup fame
Just had a Birthday
Apologize I'm late
To my Maltese sweetheart, best wishes I convey


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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FOR ANDREA (belated birthday wishes)

late
old friend
not so old
just fifty-five
fifty-five is young
and you so young at heart
i send this belated post
know your kindest heart will forgive
now go    have a good laugh    a good cry
may each day    ...

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Written in 1981 after attending a Viet Nam veterans welcome home parade.

They march in step without a cadence call
and wear old uniforms, if they still fit,
recalling days when they were standing tall.

Five services, they represent them all; 
a few in rolling chairs, required to sit.
They...

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There was a dense maiden of Madore.
Who could not despise men more.
She saw them as barbaric
They turned her hysteric
'Til she sensed what they’re good for....

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I thought upon my past and cried
Though, I know, you haven't died
You're miles away and I can still see
The smile of the woman who gave birth to me
Where there is love, there is a way
I promise, again, we'll spend a day
Even though for now we...

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A homeless man, as he wandered,
on ideas varied 
he pondered, scribe on those 
discarded bits of paper, 
of the varied experience
life offered.
Of romance to delight 
and murder, a fright
of the wrath of the dragon, 
and tales, 
that would enlighten.
An author 
of immense fame
his works never...

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Born May 5, 1818, in Trier Germany 
     to Heinrich and Henrietta Marx,
sans the third of nine children 
     (and second oldest heir) 

     Karl Marx thinking begot incendiary sparks,
asper his two most...

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Since my birth
To your death
Never would I miss you.

Now
I do....

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Happy Happy belated Birthday 

Hope Its not to late to say
I'm sorry, i really wanted
to be there  
sorry I missed your birthday 
sorry I missed your winning smile
sorry I didn't get to share 
in that very important 
Happiest of days 

so I hope you...

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I don't say the many things I should;
A sometime poet who runs out of words.
I don't do the things I could;
I get distracted once the wine is poured.
I'm not sure the things I say and think
Are born of me or come out of my drinks
There's...

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Although really belatedly,
much could still be learned

         from slowly growing older
         about how one could have

         lived youthful, vibrant life
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a most wretched woman
once befriended me
i quietly held my own
cautiously on my guard
one day pompously
she proclaimed
she was culling
her many 
so called friends
sadly
i never got
to thank her



AP: 3rd place 2020, Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on December 12, 2019 for contest STRAND SPECIAL 2 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND

posted...

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A Belated CCV Das Kapital event...

regarding birthday anniversary
wicked candle box event burns bright
for Karl Marx,
who amazingly graced, 
and kindled pinterest
jumpstarting money fest destiny. 

Born May 5, 1818, in Trier Germany
to Heinrich and Henrietta Marx,
sans the third of nine children
(and second oldest heir)
Karl Marx thinking begot...

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