Best Abouts Poems
Below are the all-time best Abouts poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of abouts poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth ISwept up into piles; everywhere
Abouts; in collected heaps all
Around. ...
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Categories:
abouts, philosophy, senses,
Form:
Rhyme
O Glorious AutumnO glorious Autumn of melancholic
Gold -
All abouts the brightly lit
Woodlands
Your wonderful artistry behold!
Tinted bronzes,
Darting between awkward firs
Of sobering Evergreen,
Loiter inside mauve havens
Splashed with palest...
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Categories:
abouts, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Churchyard At MidnightTwas darkness upon the quietly residing heath...
And deathly was the sullen red sandstone tower...
Standing gloomily inside the masons dry-stone walls
Amidst toppling granite slabs and the...
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Categories:
abouts, environment,
Form:
Rhyme
The Trials of Meretrix Canto IWhen your befuddled mind
Forsakes upon the ragged edge
Of swirling darkness;
Where eternal night awaits
To sate upon purest innocence
Besides an open grave!
When the gravity of your perils
Be...
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Categories:
abouts, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
The BurningThe Burning
It was seven days and seven nights
Or there abouts, I was not so sure
Life was shrouded in the darkness not at all pure
I lost...
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Categories:
abouts, angel, angst, goodbye, suicide,
Form:
Verse
Cygnus OlorChaste and more graceful
Than the white canvassed Dhow:
Reclines sweet Nefertiti
Upon a Blue Nile breeze.
Fabled entity more whiter
Than the purest white snow
That thickly blankets
And folds...
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Categories:
abouts, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
AuburnIt is thy wanton gestures that contrive inside long auburn
curls -
Wherefore to diminish the pleas of a warm, lustful
breeze!
For though gilded rays shall grace all...
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Categories:
abouts, love, mythology,
Form:
Rhyme
The Cost of War Through Peace
"The Cost of War through Peace"
She had spent
some elaborate
time
with snakes,
learning
their ways,
yet in the very
back of her mind,
in her memories,
she remembered
the stories...
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Categories:
abouts, light, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Narrative
Why?A man disappears where abouts unknown
Not at his work not at his home
Days pass as a passer by finds
His right leg in a country wind
...
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Categories:
abouts, death, husband, loss, sad
Form:
Rhyme
Far Away DadA close connection to each other
Valued time is spent each day,
A young boy and his father
Its ment to be this way.
What will happen to this
When...
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Categories:
abouts, sonson, son,
Form:
Rhyme
The Ugh-Gy Little Duckling In DixieTha lil ugh-gy duckin...
...Waa-uh-uh...a BAT lookin baby!
An somMO (I don mean jus maybe!)
Growt up in a house-boat shack
Way downt-ere in ole MAN-chac
Ain lyin!! (An I...
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Categories:
abouts, funny, granddaughter, people,
Form:
Rhyme
The Trials of Meretrix Canto IiiDiminishing virtues stripped away
From the flesh
By the fierce brined rods that freely
Course thy hot crimson blood;
Dry cracked lips attempting to
Fashion broken words of...
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Categories:
abouts, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
The RemakingI stand where the sunset hugely spills
Out upon subdued but still hotly
Glowering plains... ...
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Categories:
abouts, celebration, fate, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
William the GreatSee as a child having a child he was my saving grace, allowing me to refocus my path to a better place, Where he could...
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Categories:
abouts, absence, courage, mother, son,
Form:
Free verse
The Hanged Man's GhostListen my children and ye shall hear,
A tale to make ye quake with fear.
'Tis a scarey tale I tell ye no lie,
Of a man who...
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Categories:
abouts, fantasy, imagination, seasons,
Form:
Couplet