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There's More That Falls Below the Iceberg
Does my head in the guillotine promptly paint me guilty?
My last meal, a full plate of your golden excuses 
But any attention means so much to me 
We’re going in circles, 
But feel free to...

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Categories: afterthoughts, absence, extended metaphor, friend, introspection, moving on,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member By Now You Have Forgot' - To Whom It May Concern - Part 2
Continued from Part 1

               “Upon your knees in golden naves, while peeking through the slots,
      ...

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Categories: afterthoughts, men, time, war,
Form: Monorhyme
These Ribbons I Tie As You Leave
Blue – 
for your arm wrapped around
my clavicle. I thought
I would loose my breath.

Red – 
for the cusp of our hip bones
struggling to pull the drunken color
from our orange cheeks.
and our sweat, our sweat, our...

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Categories: afterthoughts, angst, introspection, loss, lost love, love, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Labyrinth of Sighs
Labyrinth of Sighs 

Wondering through a labyrinth of sighs 
More platitudes with attitudes that never question why 
A litany of afterthoughts about where we go when we die 
An emboldened range of rude retorts refuting...

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Categories: afterthoughts, life,
Form: Rhyme
shattered n whole
Like glass catching light
scatter across the sky 
each shard a silver of history
a world once whole
now dispersed into the quiet 
between afterthoughts											

Time drips at its edge
splattering of seconds
glistening like rain on cobblestones 
reflecting what I...

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Categories: afterthoughts, allegory, analogy, angst, anxiety, art, corruption, creation,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Emergent
How can one man find
More faith in a crevasse of Siula Grande,
Than most will ever know,
Sitting beneath a pulpit on Sunday?

Dulling the truth to grow the census,
Merchants and cowards comfort the carnal ear.
Marketing Christ’s love...

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Categories: afterthoughts, bible, christian, dark, death, god, jesus, sin,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member The Parlor of Prometheus - Part Four -
" She was born in 219 A.D.,
I met her in 235 when she was 16 years old.
I was working hard with her father as a mercenary
from a Belgium territory, trying to persuade a chieftan named...

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Categories: afterthoughts, creation,
Form: Ode
Infinite Intimacy
If you do the opposite of what God tells you, are you listening to you? And if you do what God tells you, aren't you listening to you? 

Just a question that made my head...

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© Ts Lewis  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: afterthoughts, god, self,
Form: Prose
Once I Dreamed a Little Dream
it was of someone I once knew
but I did not yet know 
it was of love and kindness 
a union of spirit a familiar soul 
but this was only a dream 
drifting in my night...

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Categories: afterthoughts, allegory, angel, angst, art, beautiful, courage, creation,
Form: Free verse
Can I Get An E
explanations of life's complexity seem more like 
eager delusions designed to keep us tame, all my 
energy is sucked out of my soul as I try to hold on 
explosive emotions can't just be willed...

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Categories: afterthoughts, confusion, crazy, emotions, grief, sad, society, truth,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Sensual Loss Sensual Gain
Her golden locks glide grandly through our gladioli gilded garden gateway,
I gulp ginormous groundbreaking gulleys, 
telltale tear tsunamis cut cataclysmic currents,
raw reckless rupture of romantic render,
terror-stricken tangential tamper seal evidence
on lumpen lunge lonesome lachrymose levee...

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Categories: afterthoughts, birth, color, courage, deep, destiny, devotion, feelings,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Awaken
troubled tales unfold somewhere down in the realm of dreams
  and tricking beats
  most days begin this way, hiding, beneath the quilt,
  submerged in layers
  fluid flows against the slant of...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: afterthoughts, self, senses, sleep, today,
Form: Verse
Atthis: a Sapphic Ode 1
(Hardly anything is known about Sappho, but no-one seriously 
doubts her greatness as a poet.  She lived on the Greek island 
of Lesbos (hence “Lesbian”) in the seventh century BC. All that 
has survived...

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Categories: afterthoughts, love,
Form: Ode
Premium Member A Tomb Built For a Fool
A Tomb Built For A Fool



Where shall I rest my head,
Upon a lofty mountaintop with snow
In a green valley far, far below
Or buried deep within the evergreen pines
Nestled in with sleeping cones
Racing about with morbid...

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Categories: afterthoughts, allusion, conflict, heartbreak, pain, philosophy, wisdom, writing,
Form: Free verse
Free Cee Hit the Snooze Button I Think There Is Time To Fix What Is Wrong
HIT THE SNOOZE BUTTON SO MAYBE WE CAN STILL HAVE TIME TO FIX WHAT IS WRONG

Suddenly the warring had come to cease
and we were all drenched in the glow of peace
everyone simply laid down their...

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Categories: afterthoughts, angst,
Form: Quatrain
Acclivity
ACCLIVITY

It is so easy to refine and relax through this perceptual escape.
Your thoughts are pure and thinking is disengaged.
As time pass, we will discuss out.
We will share our thoughts and our afterthoughts.
Everybody pay attention to...

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Categories: afterthoughts, freedom, future, inspirational, peace, spoken word, visionary,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Ode To the Time We Spent
Ode to the time we spend, 
My hearts ready to move on,
and nothing makes sense
We boast of being free,
We lack when tied down,
Our influences degrade us,
And I finally found.
The reason no less,
To my way of...

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Categories: afterthoughts, life, lost love, love, time,
Form: Elegy
Silent War
They forgot the cause for the falling ash
The disaster aftermath of the great collapse
Decrees to stay away from the grey afterthoughts of the past
To live for the story we tell; our legacy to last

Chaos and...

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© Laura Dee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: afterthoughts, deep, depression, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Permutations of Logic
Permutations Of Logic

The     truth   was     concealed    with   many   branches 
hidden  through  flossy  blossoms  ...

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Categories: afterthoughts, creation,
Form: Free verse
Transcendence
Through descendents
Ascend
God defends
Our Holy Spirit we must invite
To honor whom was always right
There will be many to call friends
God follows against the trends
His precious kiss
Which has been missed
Awoken from sleep
The slop was steep
Precious seal
Now revealed
The...

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Categories: afterthoughts, angel, beautiful, birth, blessing, celebration, deep, power,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Morning After
Sorrow greets sadness here,
The morning after steers.

Why all this teary feel
That oozes a reveal?

~~~~~~~~~


Deep impact stays huge loss
As a lost rhyme feeds toss.

Why all this sudden sighs
That surge in blurry eyes?

~~~~~~~~~


Each to a set routine
Of...

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Categories: afterthoughts, appreciation,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Captive of Circumstance
Your thought-balloons are filled with wild and magical freedom ~

until madness seizes your think tank 
trapping your ceaselessly chirping ideas 
within the teeth of its snapped steel-jaws 
refusing to relinquish you; lest you chew up...

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Categories: afterthoughts, angst, pain, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Lie, Truth, & Reality
I walk above all pain
            risen and relentless 
               ...

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Categories: afterthoughts, introspection, loveheart, heart,
Form: Free verse
Paint Movers
PAINT MOVERS 

As dawn lifts the darker veil  of night
On spectrum of colours' soft wings fresh day arrives
Holding palette to paint emotions of delight 
Bursting from land of prism rainbow skies 

Light of sparkling...

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Categories: afterthoughts, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Quatrain
Azure Dreams Unfolding Westward
In the dance of thoughts, we twirl,
a symphony of whispered musings.
Words, delicate as a butterfly's kiss,
flutter from our lips, sometimes exquisite,
sometimes in the gentle decay of letters.

Oh, how we interweave with the tapestry
of our innermost...

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Categories: afterthoughts, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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