Short Thereafter Poems

War creates true pain
The clanging of gunshots
Silence thereafter......

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Upon soul merging with The Creator ~
We require thereafter, no translator 

20-July-2022...

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Poison is sometimes a food 
To all food no more in need 

Poison has a day of death 
No or more poison thereafter that...

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If a Caucasian is born in Africa, 
but becomes an American citizen,
is that individual thereafter
considered an African American?...

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Today

Not tomorrow

Not yesterday

Not next week

Not next year - or the year thereafter

Today

I will love you - as if every day is Today...

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In the beginning was the bird
Shortly thereafter dropped a turd
It fell in Eve's hair
She roared like a bear
But Soup Censors heard the F-word...

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**** **** **** ****.
There.
I got it outa my system.

The duck and the truck
met the buck and the other duck

and they all live happily thereafter....

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There was a beekeeper named Floyd
who had thousands of bees deployed.
He neglected their hives
a threat to their lives.
Soon thereafter Floyd became void....

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terrifically

trecherous

toddlers

teeter-tottering

tactfully

the

tarradiddles

that

they

tacitly

tarry

tangentally

thereafter....

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In within
tall Branches
calling my name
the sap of nature

In Truest dove
the Kiss shall blow
leafy green the wonder
the name I shall know
and love thereafter....

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I have a doubt in me,taking my sleep for a long time for want of clearence,as to whether,the first word that spoken for ever or else this World,what came before and what thereafter?...

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Homosapiens therein a state of sleep;  
To truly rouse forth thereafter thier deaths?  
Shall Sheperd say... He trusts they'd well sleep?  
Life, a dream? They'll fathom post final breaths....

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That kid at eleven before his first kiss
is the kid that I really, really miss.
Every kid thereafter
was more tears than laughter,
molding the world-weary cynic that this old man now is.
...

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Once you've lost love,
loving is never the same thereafter.
You'll cherish more your laughter,
you'll think differently when you see a man,
his looks will go through you like a bullet through your heart....

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If you're planning a party with fun to the rafters
Call me for a quote to provide mucho laughter
No real naughty stuff
To make kiddies blush
Just giggles with the promise of naughties thereafter...

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If you're planning a party with fun to the rafters
Call me for a quote to provide mucho laughter    
No real naughty stuff
To make kiddies blush
Just giggles with the promise of naughties thereafter...

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“Why”
said the river,
refusing to run

“The mountain’s
on fire,
 snow all but gone

“Beginning
or ending,
  truth is the same

“The start
in the finish 
—loss in the gain”

(The New Room: November, 2021)...

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I can only imagine 
the glory that awaits us 
entering through those Golden Gates 
the splendor of his beauty 
in the life thereafter 
I can only imagine 
how my soul will feel 
having longed for his 
eternal love...

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A disastrous sunflower,
Poe is hour after hour
now studied the way a murder is
by Alfred Hitchcock or Sherlock Holmes
long-lived even in death, 
he suffers in hell 
through our eyes on the page
and our ears thereafter....

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I once knew a bruiser name Meredith Tooley
He fancied how he could handle himself fully
His name drew gales of laughter
And forever thereafter
He was careful when he acted like a bully

written October 30, 2021...

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A summer rain falling,
Fierce winds blowing hard;
Ping-pong hale pounding:-

Shortly thereafter,
The rain and wind are no more;
Sun's back...thunder roars:-

Nature can be weird,
Sharing her thunderstrom treats
On a summer day

...

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friend cracks a naughty joke
our overgrown tummies split and burst in laughter
cannot poke

laugh away blues
godsend happiness thereafter
pink hues

let go
be a rafter
ho!!

friend cracks a naughty joke
godsend happiness thereafter
ho!!...

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An exceptional young man from the Old Dominion
Was in love with his most overrated opinion
He spouted the verse and chapter
But collapsed shortly thereafter
Because he met up with a savvy West Virginian.

written August 11, 2021...

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It is a must that I have to rush,
And spare not even a second of Time
All I touch just turns to dust-
Patience...that virtue to find!
Amidst the stress so meaningless,
The Peace I seek thereafter
For my own good I can't obsess,
But get lost in all the laughter...

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Down by those tracks, 
You silly astronaut. 

Its an Odyssey, 
I'll admit
That I ever survived. 

Fluids, moans
and Cries thereafter
Were undoubtedly
Where this 
Masochist was
Born. 

I promised to 
Prevail, but 
Salt in the wound
Sent me down an 
Unending Spiral...

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