Short Belated Poems

Since my birth
To your death
Never would I miss you.

Now
I do....

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virgins foolish run
the bridegroom on his own time
they knock at each door

2 July 2021...

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Here's a fish with a kiss
For the birthdays I always miss,
Hopefully your birthday wish
Shall bring you much bliss....

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What ought to have lapsed 
A decade ago sluggishly pops;
Antagonist’s claws now thaw 
And give way to buoyant hopes. 
...

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My heart is filled with love for you
No matter what you say
No matter what you do,
Because you are 
YOU....

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There was a dense maiden of Madore.
Who could not despise men more.
She saw them as barbaric
They turned her hysteric
'Til she sensed what they’re good for....

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Blurred
as in a distant dream,

we recall that our sojourn
through life in this our world

is but a belated homecoming
after our faintly-remembered exile,

following our half-forgotten
pilgrimage....

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   Once I wrote a really good poem
      My teacher wrote

   ‘Lightning doesn’t strike twice, Sam’
      A 'D' in the course spurred my belated reply ~
                                 ‘I know, ma’am’
...

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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


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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thank you p.d.
love your style,
turning words,
all the while,
sidestep the karmic kiss,
sidestep 4 sweetest bliss,
or stay n do your time,
4 some belated crime,
though knowldge dont exist???  

re:

p.d.  'karma'

Don...

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Was Educated Trump Equivocated

Trump was great speaker when he equivocated,
My talents are result of being highly educated;
While hair drying,
With more lying;
We wish he had been gone and then belated.

Jim Horn...

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Trump Rode Pony While Being Phony

While riding pony Trump was a phony fraud;
Would watch women when clothes they shod;
He forgot about belated;
Much trouble generated;
Found bad things when in his past did prod.

Jim Horn...

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LOST MEANING

Meaning sometimes comes at a cost
Hidden in words, a belated realisation
Composition has much to answer for
When the truth may lurk in metaphor
It may even cause some perturbation
But it’s worse if the meaning gets lost
...

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Alluringly avidly acutely animated
Blossoming beautifully barely belated
Cavorting colliding consciously collaborating
Desperately dreaming delicious delirium
Exhilirating enchanting enthusing enjoyment
Fascinating fantastic fabulous flair...

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You'd think I missed your birthday
for a reason not to go.
But the truth is that I missed it
for this card to get there slow.

As I'm wishing you a birthday
that is happy for the wait,
as it lasts a little longer
when the card arrives belate....

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There once was a character named Eli
Who really loved the fourth of July
He thought he was a stud
His fireworks were a dud
So he got a new gig and moved to Thai






















7-5-19
Alexis Y

* Happy Belated Fourth Of July...

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This man was a sleuth by profession,
for belated honeymoon session
reached on moonless night eerie
lodge in mist of mystery,
searched the room for bugging contraption.


July 31, 2019
Syllable count 9/9/7/7/9
Checked on howmanysyllables.com...

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My heart feels like
                            a box of Whitman`s,
                            with the chocolate  
                            covered cherries 
                            missing.
                            Sorry!…No more
                            sharing....

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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 go    have a good laugh    a good cry
may each day      one at a time      be happy...

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I shall begin 
   where belated endings start,

      in sun-bleached bones 
         of late lessons hardly learned.


         And I shall end 
            where early beginnings stop,

               where wounds are healed
                  and fresh scars are proudly earned!

....

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I thought upon my past and cried
Though, I know, you haven't died
You're miles away and I can still see
The smile of the woman who gave birth to me
Where there is love, there is a way
I promise, again, we'll spend a day
Even though for now we both may be lost,
I'll see you again no matter the cost...

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Looking though
the looking- glass
peering, wondering
when will this end?
Duplicates swirling without hindering
my imagination
the colors, fox trotting
across my eyes
When the mountains laugh
their belated laugh
and when the birds cry
their distressing warbles
will the looking- glass mystery
ever
end?...

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A Godfather, often vague
Says Belated HBD, Craig
Not because you matter less
But because I was careless

The first birthday without your Dad
Made perhaps a day,sad
God has a plan for sure
To keep our hearts and minds pure

With all my love,right
To my only God child a wish, bright
A day full of cheer and laughter
To celebrate a whole four days after...

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Listen to poem:

a most wretched woman
once befriended me
i quietly held my own
cautiously on my guard
one day pompously
she proclaimed
she was culling
her many 
so called friends
sadly
i never got
to thank her



AP: 3rd place 2020, Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on December 12, 2019 for contest STRAND SPECIAL 2 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND

posted on March 3, 2019...

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Straight path to the strip club, prostitutes showing me love, prostitutes granting me clingings, Man I must admit I Love this, their ****** husky, yet I treasure a girl, I order her bloated pearls, she's no papergirl, she urges sensuality every day of the week, Unconsidered if I'm weak, belated nights kissing and clinging this is what significant other's do.
- Loverboi...

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