Best Late Arrival Poems

Into the earth 
is our final fate,
the best we can hope for
is to be really late...

Damn, I'm always 10 minutes
early for everything!...

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Benji the Bit-Bit Shire gardener,
had been following Blue Bell a horse.
He read that it was having a run,
Saturday at a local racecourse.

Blue Bell was in...

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So we all face the weepy songs, throat clogged
just because its blue month with the rain running down.

So our stomachs quiver and we can’t quite...

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It was the night before Christmas
Not a sound was heard
Except for the sound of Mods
Discussing the Foxestalk message board.

The subject was a Christmas party
Which happened...

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Summer
late arrival
cooler than usual
sun timidly peeking through clouds
soon gone...

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AHA HAIKU 14


Old friend calls
How are you?
Song of long ago

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Old condo ambience
Familiar faces converge;
Robot moods

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Chinese tea
Aids digestion;
Sip fond brew

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Cute boys charm
Innocence wakes up;
Naughty sparkles

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Last journal...

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Perhaps halfway to Bemidji we met a cleaning crew
Removing fallen trees but it helped us little
As they had only just started when we saw them.
The...

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One small word to describe so vast a space.
Universe magnificent in each place.
Perfect creations adorning each room.
Each plant knows best time to open its bloom.

Every...

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rain turned snow
                    late arrival
 ...

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Love Delayed 

 
Who could have known?
 
The pattern of life was already here.
Hot and cold in its earthliness.
It only required us to find our...

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~ sequence of haiku ~

 

late arrival
everyone asleep
quiet as can be

fat june bugs flutter
in the dark of night
all too excited

ignoring this swarm
of june bugs
we put...

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I. 
Jilly's laugh is somewhere between 
a hiccup and a sigh 
teeth shimmering 
little porcelain cups 
like the ones 
I used in 
Victorian doll houses...

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FALL FOR YOU

The autumn comes, sometimes slowly
Recalling warmth on sunny days
Yet soon the autumn diary wakes
Term time, and a nip in the air

After summer’s late...

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Stephanus Marcus Book 1
Canto 6
Verses 4 and 5

Now herald monarch's late arrival nigh.
From east his royal standard shows design.
A lion bold displays from pennant high...

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The gym was decorated:
crepe draped and glittery.
Disquietude was partner
as I stood against the wall,
misrepresented hunger gnawing at my soul
and a misunderstood thirst.
The electric strumming died,
so...

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