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Best Belatedly Poems


As Always, Too Late
to ask to be forgiven 
and to truly forgive, 
to make amends, 
to soothe hurts with a vow,
the most opportune time,
my friend, is now;

             instantly we hate, 
     ...

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Categories: belatedly, forgiveness, life, love,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Premium Member Now and Then and Now Again
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Though still within our infancy, 
we strive to thrive, but woefully 
we flash and flaunt our 'primacy',
display our trophies pridefully.
 
Our terra firma ecstasy
destroys survival's harmony,
lays waste to life on land and sea.
Mankind, thy name is vanity!

By doubting Nature's regnancy,
defying laws with levity,
we strain our...

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Categories: belatedly, corruption, culture, environment, money,
Form: Monorhyme
Kindred Spirits Lune
lone girl with her cat

maybe sad

but survives life's storms










06 August 2015
Pretty Little Lunes Contest- No. 4
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich


*inspired by the story of Broken Wings and her cat.
**sorry, had to change the form belatedly to verse...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: belatedly, inspirational, loneliness,
Form: Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



A Belated Welcome Home
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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© Wayne Sapp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: belatedly, warmen, march, men,
Form: Villanelle
A Jewel's Passing
So no more shall his traitors hate;
For death's veils have made it late
To slight any soul time has called
To dine and wine in the city of gold.

And his tombstone does eerily stand
Above the grass on the watered land;
Where passers-by might donate a tear
To lament the...

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Categories: belatedly, appreciation, death, family,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Wake Up Call
WAKE UP CALL

Wake up Congolese, wake up
It is morning, the sun arises from the east 
Open your eyes and wake up. 
I am Kongolo Congo, born near the River Congo
Grew up in Congo Uvira, using the Congo franc  
Now I am a Refugee in...

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Categories: belatedly, africa, dedication, encouraging, how
Form: Narrative



Self Reflections
SELF REFLECTIONS

These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection. 

Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch 

for anyone struggling with self-image

She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly unthin
when seen from within;
soon a griefstricken campus will mourn.

Yet she'd...

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Categories: belatedly, identity, image, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Independence Day.
The bars are empty,
the streets deserted
and the gloom which sorrounds the nieghbourhoods,
thickened.

Belatedly the wind mormured,
the trees sighed
and the birds looked on in silence,
.........as quiet as despair.

Inside the homes,
dis-believing folks gathered in silence
before radio and t.v sets,
to be bathed by concerted token of lies of freedom
and...

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Categories: belatedly, loss
Form: ABC
A Jewel's Passing
So no more shall his haters hate
For the veil of death has made it late
To hate a soul that time has called
To dine and wine in the city of gold.

And his tombstone will eerily stand
Above the grass on the watered land
Where passers-by will donate a...

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Categories: belatedly, death,
Form: Elegy
Engineering Nostalgia
What is value?
I stand here peering out at the bar tab
Wondering what fallen soldiers reside here
Belatedly sipping away staring into space
He checks his phone on and off 
Searching for some message and meaning
Takes another shot, stares
Waiting for a beautiful bride perhaps
To jump suddenly into his...

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Categories: belatedly, anniversary, art, business,
Form: Free verse
For Children In Love
I carry in my heart, a little little clock
And when I move, it makes tick-tock,
never belatedly and always the same
either I am asleep or playing a game.
 
But one day, the clock did only tick
and no tock, I was worried and sick,
I went to see...

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Categories: belatedly, children, love, time,
Form: Sonnet
Equitably Delivered Comeuppance Betokens Agony
Awareness about behavior,
present since mine days of yore
an unswerving allie analogous
to peacekeeper ending civil war
belated insight suddenly realized

(better late than never) doth underscore
incumbent proactive communication stance
belatedly bestowed omnipotent awareness
crucial fostering ingredient to shore
maternal bond above

bejesus ear splitting roar
I admit regret (to self), there
dost belie suppressed...

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Categories: belatedly, angst, confusion, fear, friendship
Form: Bio
The Bee's Knees
It's passing strange;
I never liked bees very much.
--thought them ugly, mean and hazardous.
But now they disappear, 
together with the crops dependent
on them to survive. My sentiments
have crossed the battlefield and joined
a more quixotic enemy--one who feeds me
first, then falls away to sacrifice his sting,
his life,...

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Categories: belatedly, happiness,
Form: Free verse
A True Lie
Is it a true lie-
Love is blind
But it is kind?
D'you understand?
A blind man is a kind man,
So is a kind man a blind man;
'Cause if love is blind,
It sees no flaws.
If love is kind,
It gives, gives and gives
So that the other
Might receive, eat and live.

But...

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Categories: belatedly, emotions, feelings,
Form: Lyric
Belated Lessons
.

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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Categories: belatedly, health
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things