Short Afterthought Poems

am I forethought or
an afterthought or what you
see in the mirror...

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this is how it is,
scribbled on a midnight script,
one thought is to play -
a hare takes a moonlit leap,
another smells its warm blood....

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first love
unexpected
emotionally charged
the outside world an afterthought 
just us


12/04/2011


Contest: Traditional Cinquain 
10th Place...

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After I’d been made to eat dessert, 
You’d take me into your bedroom, 
Recall a memory of us and assert, 
With balloons no despair or gloom.


17/12/2015...

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nameless,
       moving on
a footnote
      of his 
         yesterdays:
now
immune
  to the pain,
a subtext
    of flesh&blood
long lost
in
fading
       memory...

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eyeful afterthought
all wasted up
catch a glimpse of the bird's eye view
power of speech grant an audience
hidden message
moments of panic
in person short sighted
tongue-tied word for word
humanity is thus lost...

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<  Second place
    
    Plan B

    Afterthought

    Close

     behind

    One day

    the sun will shine

    Plan A

    first in mind

     arrive

     Ahead

     i believe
    
     i believe...

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Gleaming in glorious grace,
While holding, whole hearted.
Keeping this kind killed case,
And deploying the departed.
Educating everyone,
Still, birth serenades’ souls.
Dead ones cries are undone.
I am the one with my controls.....

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the
     breathless
               interplay
of circumstance,
in a 
       flourish
become
          a blur
an existential
meeting
of voices
of hands
of minds
with an
        afterthought
imprinted
       forever..
in memory...

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Sitting round the table with my glass in hand,
Thoughts come into my ear
I sense that world out there and go,
Foot places set, cleared and fair.
Oxen, lambs, bird and song
Time places things in front of us
And we have that moment to expound.
Dear afterthought !...

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Tweedle the teensy bee was being hauled along with a bunch of stuff.
He thought he was an afterthought, and said to everyone “sure enough”.
Mama had her grip on bags of junk, and he was the end of the line.
She rolled her eyes at his protests, a bee who knew how to whine....

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I am the last resort, afterthought
when all the pretty ones have turned you down
I am the one who falls back and takes it
my crown an ignored frown

I am the one who opens up until you're done
I am the voice unheard

I ask no questions, I just agree
I get what I deserve...

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What if I made...?
And maybe he didn't!
I just don't know how those feelings would fade.
What if he did...?
And maybe I wouldn't!
I can't figure out how this fits into grid.
Sadly, I thought...and I think what I'd thought.
But it was!
And I saw!
And he's gone!
And that's all!...

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In contrast  well on the other hand seems like
opposites attempting to catch the wind. Exerting to resolutions, connecting, and associations. A goal one's  mirror of one's mind, A afterthought? often dazes in one's head according to one's way of thinking, interconnected ways of linking....

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Do you play inside the Corn Flakes,
or are corn stalks more you game

Is that Hersey Bar the answer,
or the cocoa or cocaine

Do you clerk for someone’s feelings,
inspiration to be damned

Your legacy an afterthought
—another’s contraband

(Grantham New Hampshire: February, 2017)...

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Afterthought

There is a great assurance of the heart,
relating all our fates to up above
and life’s a voyage plotted on God’s chart
occurrences, mixed gently with His love. 
Decisions made which were not very smart,
within His plan have very minor parts.

1/23/17 ...

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Do you play inside the Corn Flakes,
  or are corn stalks more you game

Is that Hersey Bar the answer,
  or the cocoa or cocaine

Do you clerk for someone’s feelings,
  inspiration all be damned,

Your legacy an afterthought,
 —of another’s contraband

(Grantham New Hampshire: February, 2017)...

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Upon the roof, outside the walls,

                              now tapping soft its whispered calls,

                                              aftertaste of pain,

                                             this afternoon rain,

                                  like a  fading afterthought, falls....

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Daylight brightens this dark dwelling place
Dusk is approaching
I leave some space
Inside my soul
Luminescences exist
Creating a lull
I will not resist
Peace is more than a feeling I’ve known
It has a name
A distinctive moan
Listening closely I follow its call
Hearing the truth
I avoid another dangerous fall...

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when the flames
of ardent desire
diminish
to mere flickers
as the arousal
burns out
on the wick
of endless dreams

i don't wish
to be the afterthought
carried in the smoke
of rebound passion
as a mere spark
to reignite
your imagination

i'd rather
be unlit
as a display
on dusty shelves
of old dreams...

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Roses are red
Rosie is blue
Wondering where
Her boyfriend Fred
went to

He left in a hurry
In such a flurry
His mind a a blurry
Thinking of Rosie
Giving her posies

An afterthought 
Instead he thought 
two bouquets of
Red lovely red roses
for  valentine's Da\y

With a card added
Telling her of how
He feels about her now...

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Poppin jays flies
on Neon lights
Hanker don't whisper !
As the Mighty Oak sways
The lavee squirms  forward
running obtuse

The dancers pontificate thought
lancing the proverbial boil
As an afterthought
The pied pipers never pay


The rotten beams surrender
pulsating dead energy
beyond the fold of avarice
Tis the season of Arbeit...

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Nature and I
are alike,
What's in her
Is in me:

The fire,
The water,
The air,
The earth;

We create,
We destroy.

Eternity
in her bosom,
Creation
in her womb,
She resurrects herself
every spring,

Why do I die?

(An Afterthought)

Do I indeed die?

What do I become
When I die?

Fire?
Air?
Water?
Earth?

I'll be one with Nature!...

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He created earth and heaven
and established the laws even
And then, ha! He rested
His time fully vested...
As an afterthought He made Men!


~A Limerick contest of Robert Haigh

~Mark Twain quote: "Man was made at the end 
of the week's work when God was tired."

"Write with the wit of Twain" contest by Andrea Dietrich...

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Each day becomes an afterthought for a while. 

Trying to remember those last days of us.

When we were feasting on our time left. 

We would take turns closing our eyes to go to sleep. 

With you almost touching my toes. 

Tears that would invade too early. 

Watching you to see your breathing. 

And that would make me cry even more....

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