Best Eleanor Poems

I’m one of the  lonely,
the oh so lonely people
missing your subtle smile.
You were a pretty blue eyed beauty,
with unkept hair and go go boot style.

Eleanor, Eleanor Rigby,
you lived down on the corner.
I’d see you stand inside your door,
staring blankly at the floor.
They told me,...

Continue reading...

You may have known her as fable or fiction
But she was as real as deep blue oceans
And glorious dawns of rising golden sun;

Not quite blessed with grace of humanity
Hurting miserably in wounded dark alleys--
One among many--misdeeds of destiny
Trapped within inescapable pathos of society.

Like summer storms...

Continue reading...

Eleanor Rigby, picks up the rice
In the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window, wearing the face
That she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do...

Continue reading...

Who is or was Eleanor Rigby ?
Jerry T Curtis
Poetry Contest
27 August 2019

Eleanor Rigby

Lost her 1st Born Son and Husband

To World War 2

She then dedicated her life to the Church

Overcome by grief and loss

She became a Nun 

To seek solace and relief

She searched for her answers...

Continue reading...

Ever wonder where big ideas come from?

Memories of FDR
from newsreel clips -
a lion-headed striking man
with rakish grin,
jaw jutting proudly, 
signature cigarette holder
clenched in his teeth
tilted ever upward...
soaring to the heavens
as he cruises by
waving to admirers
in his convertible coupe.

Short List FDR Credits:
New Deal, WPA, Social Security,...

Continue reading...

A cat called Eleanor 
ponders from a pillow
in a bay window,
the lives of the willow and songbird.

The willow is a short-lived tree
which spends a lifetime
weeping about it
while shorter-lived songbirds
roost in the droopy boughs
cheerfully celebrating another day.

The easy climb could 
make for a tasty snack.

06/08/15...

Continue reading...

Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt  
With women's rights mostly dealt
But her husband Franklin
Let "Missy" Lehand spank him...

Continue reading...

I'll never forget how 
she cornered me 
outside the lecture hall 
with her downcast eyes, 
looking so respectful. 
I thought women were 
supposed to look 
just like that. 

I spent evenings in her company. 
She made me supper of beans and greens. 
Ellen was studying...

Continue reading...

She is one of many, dear Eleanor secluded 
in her secular sepulcher,
One of the lonely plenty, a regular within the 
   anonymous atoms nebular…

Dreamed of rice, at her wedding 
with her sorrows spreading,
She paid the price, with tears shedding
   and one...

Continue reading...

MY ELEANOR

Darling, yet another day is past gone,

While we rest from the battle; losing not just one.

As the wind of pain blows round our camp,

Affixing to many hearts its bleeding stamp,

I sit, on the warm sand, gazing at the moonlight,

With thoughts glued just on you,...

Continue reading...

Oh little Eleanor just turned one, two, three
She has curls that flow down her back and eyes bright as can be
My little Eleanor plays outside all day
Lives in a tiny house, but says that it's okay
Sweet little Eleanor, full of love and light
With only a...

Continue reading...

Eleanor cleans the church
Wednesdays, Sundays
And after weddings on other days
She sweeps up the rice
Remembering her own wedding
So many years ago
She is lonely
Her husband was killed
In the Vietnam war
And her children
Never call anymore

Father McKenzie reads from
A tattered yellow sermon
For the few old people 
Who straggle in
With...

Continue reading...

Eleanor
 
Will never die
The day she does I will cry
Memories memories a lot
Maybe she should just be a thought 
Ice racing, jumping her 
All were fun
Now its time to take her out back
And shoot her with a gun
Had great times but she is done 
Old...

Continue reading...

Eleanor instinctively knows the language of the great mathematicians
The other women consider her peculiar
She does no needlework
Pines after no man
Her daddy trains her to follow his profession.
She becomes a highly-trained, impressive engineer
Born in the wrong century to be employed,
she starts her own company...

Continue reading...

The Holocaust was a reminder to us…
besides being a most horrific crime…
that dark forces of evil and intolerance 
have been flowing since the dawn of time.

If you want a sampling of how cruel and inhuman 
we, who call ourselves human, can be…
I’ll be frank…watch Ken...

Continue reading...