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Best Belated Poems

Below are the all-time best Belated poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of belated poems written by PoetrySoup members


Belated Elegy and Eulogy For Sir Abdul Kalam
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...

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Categories: belated, eulogy,
Form: Elegy



Happy Belated Birthday Anne-Lise
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNE-LISE!!!!!


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Categories: belated, birthday, dedication, funny, happy,
Form: Shape
Premium Member A Belated Birthday Wish For Charmaine
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


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Categories: belated, birthday,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member For Andrea (Belated Birthday Wishes)
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...

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Categories: belated, friendship
Form: Etheree
The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: belated, hope,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Andrea Sonneteer
I had wanted to celebrate Andrea Dietrich’s special birthday with a tribute poem. She celebrated reaching that age of retirement many long for. At the...

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Categories: belated, birthday, poetess, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Mother's Love
Mother’s Love (Sonnet)

Love begins at the time of conception
When a mother’s dear child grows in her womb.
Her life is changed to thoughts of protection.
Excitement and...

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Categories: belated, childhood, family, holiday, mom,
Form: Sonnet
I Never Left You
I NEVER LEFT YOU

When youthful restless hearts hear defining calls
With volcanic strength they will respond
The impetus for adventure overrides
All rational thoughts, out of window they...

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Categories: belated, adventure, america, courage, feelings,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Brand New Portmanteau
January is the incunabula of the year
I embrace hugely like my huggable teddy bear
With my new life’s portmanteau inexorably handed over
On that last starry night...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: belated, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ground Level Entry
"Ground Level Entry"

“She fits the bill”,
they say it 
insouciantly

visions of being 
carried in the beak 
of a bilious pelican 

where it builds
its rudimentary nest, 
it...

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Categories: belated, muse,
Form: Narrative
Obsessive Orange
United Colours: Orange
Sponsor: Silent One

Pathological agreements made from your spicy allegations,
neurotic contributions based on a fire lit from clay,
all the inescapable state of affairs from...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: belated, color, universe,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Love Off-Sprung
futures cavort below the horizon
  an expectant dawn glows, duly announcing the first born arrival
  tomorrow then forward smiles, feeling good
  half...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: belated, children, family, love, tribute,
Form: Verse
Gone With Love
Gone, and gone with love!
Up forlornly went my breath
Down my body sank, of death 
I but recall, in love with you intensely how I fell...

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Categories: belated, heartbroken,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Foghorn of Yore
The days are long and unproud, they brood...
  and please not the weary soul wearying in its wake;
  when gnashing snow and rain...

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Categories: belated, fate, sea, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Daily Inspiration
The sun's rays blast through my bedroom window
Filling the room with daily inspiration
To help me brave the new day that's ahead
Knowing obstacles that await are...

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Categories: belated, faith, god, how i
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things