Long Thereabouts Poems
Long Thereabouts Poems. Below are the most popular long Thereabouts by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Thereabouts poems by poem length and keyword.
Rip
R.I.P.
by Michael R. Burch
When I am lain to rest
and my soul is no longer intact,
but dissolving, like a sunset
diminishing to the west...
and when at last
before His throne my past
is put to test
and the demons...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, death, dream, funeral, grave, judgement, sleep, sunset,
Form:
Verse
As Time Walked By
These are early poems of mine, written as a high school student in the 10th grade.
as Time walked by
by Michael R. Burch
yesterday i dreamed of us again,
when
the air, like honey,
trickled through cushioning grasses,
softly flowing,...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, 10th grade, boy, child, childhood, first love,
Form:
Free verse
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet I
My most popular poems on the Internet (I)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Early Poems I
Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Smoke
by Michael R. Burch
The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells within (the din was in)...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, kid, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Colin the Caped Cabbie
Colin is a cabby with a proper taxi cab
He drives for all the passengers an Uber didn’t grab
Which means he has a lot of time to kill most every day
And lots of evil folk to...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, hero, humorous,
Form:
Narrative
Road Trip
Road Trip
The country, people, and the village,
All equal, as if, for the first time,
All of that gave a fresher image,
Nay, 'tis but a relative vantage.
Save fresh road, to its left bears a sign.
"A few...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, adventure, allegory, childhood, grandfather, meaningful, nostalgia, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
Down a Piece and There
The country, people, and the village,
All equal, as if, for the first time,
All of that gave a fresher image,
Nay, 'tis but a relative vantage.
Save fresh road, to its left bears a sign.
"A few more...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, allegory, beach, childhood, grandfather, nostalgia, remember, travel,
Form:
Narrative
Sad Seasonally Affective Disorder
SAD Seasonally Affective Disorder
Some are prone to depression in winter when days get shorter when
less light enters the brain through the eyes and thoughts become darker
I am also affected and when news gets explosive when...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, conflict,
Form:
Light Verse
Awaiting a growth spurt that never happened
Awaiting a growth spurt that never happened
When a boy,
I wanted to be as tall as my father
(he passed away October seventh
two thousand and twenty
linkedin to congestive heart failure),
who stood at his prime
about six feet and...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, 12th grade, 9th grade, anger, angst, birth,
Form:
Free verse
On becoming a night owl
On becoming a night owl...,
no matter whether or not ya give a hoot
especially after feeling super charged
watching the second night of
Democratic National Convention conclave
ushering a hint of "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité.
Men and women are born...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, age, animal, august, bird, environment, humorous, night,
Form:
Rhyme
Unitarian Church returnee
Unitarian Church returnee
After a hiatus of countless years
plus an additional
almost three months
since a major makeover,
(I experienced the magic
wrought courtesy
a bonafide big hearted
beautician at Salon Nova
located in beautiful
downtown Limerick, Pennsylvania
to render my...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, 3rd grade, age, america, atheist, community, education,
Form:
Free verse
Me very late mum, a funereal day
Me very late mum, a funereal day...
courtesy latitudinarian, nonestablishmentarian,
sexagenarian, and Unitarian son
and modest mastermind maven maverick.
Another anniversary of her death occurs
upon advent of
May fourth two thousand and five,
not quite seventy years since her...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, absence, age, america, anniversary, atheist, birth, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Cowpoke
Cowpoke
by Michael R. Burch, circa age 16
Sleep, old man...
your day has long since passed.
The endless plains,
cool midnight rains
and changeless ragged cows
alone remain
of what once was.
You cannot know
just how the Change
will rape the windswept plains
that you...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, evil, heart, home, poems, usa, war, western,
Form:
Rhyme
Chicanery Grabbed Lustfully Repeatedly Yup
Chicanery grabbed lustfully repeatedly - yup!
While merrily bobbing along
the boulevard of broken dreams,
which in truth measured
no more than a furlong
think envisioning myself top banana
analogous to bull headed Donkey Kong,
I felt on top of my game,
which...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, abuse, age, america, analogy, anger, animal, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Government Sales Tax Gst
Government Sales Tax GST
Since the introduction of GST, a sales tax newly introduced back in April 1st last year,
GST or Government Sales Tax has wreaked untold financial miseries all thro the year.
Despite the various...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, anniversary, anxiety, betrayal, community, myth,
Form:
Free verse
Chasing the Dream
Chasing The American Dream Part1
The wonders of social media and its different applications ...
They allow everyone to make reconnections and link up broken communications...
Recently through the ever pervasive hphone What's app application...
Chanced upon a long...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, america, anxiety, childhood, community, corruption,
Form:
Free verse
All My Children
All My Children
by Michael R. Burch
It is May now, gentle May,
and the sun shines pleasantly
upon the blousy flowers
of this backyard cemet'ry,
upon my children as they sleep.
Oh, there is Hank in the daisies now,
with...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, bereavement, child, childhood, children, death, mother daughter,
Form:
Verse
Me Late Mum, a Holly Day Mastermind Maven Maverick
Way back before this baby boomer waz astute
countless decades before aye became long in the tooth,
and also prior tomb ma sporting dentures to boot
fond memories rush more than so far back
envisioning illusory wind blown steppes
(wait...this...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, age, angel, childhood, christmas, dad, fantasy, satire,
Form:
Light Verse
Mum's Christmas Dinner
She stays awake for hours, cutting Xs in the sprouts,
Then peels all the tatties, a ton or thereabouts,
Slicing and dicing parsnips is next up in the plan,
Chops up carrots and a swede, and put them...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, christmas, family, food, funny, holiday, humorous, mom,
Form:
Rhyme
Daylight Robbery
It was four thirty in the afternoon broad daylight,
We arrived home after an exhausting shopping spree,
Pulled into our drive, turned off the engine, to our delight,
Home, don’t look them in the eye, dangerous, there are...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Soul of An Angel, Life of a Moonshiner
He served as a deacon in his church and was as pious as they come.
(But on the side, he sold whiskey from a thirty-gallon drum!)
He taught the junior high Sunday school class and was a...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
Look Out Below
The sign he reads out loud, “There’s holes ahead.”
The Rip Van Winkle Bridge quite disturbs me.
A story book that’s come to life — with head
To lose. My dad inches along bravely.
The chickens must brood o’er...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, angst, memory, metaphor, water,
Form:
Sonnet
The Earl of Pence
'Twas a dark and stormy night! (OK! So I'm being a tad histrionic!)
The Earl of Pence was lounging by the fire sipping his gin and tonic.
Lightning flashed and thunder roared sending shivers down his...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, england, horror, humorous, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Dennis Cummings 1844-1920
Dennis Cummings
1844-1920
To my friends of the 41st Infantry!
My men, my brave brothers from Wisconsin, are invited!
Invited RSVP to my domesticated, but dignified digs
On south Milton Street in Whittier town,
There, above the tracks of the Southern...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, conflict, death, war,
Form:
Epitaph
Vase Dream I
Pink vase with no design
Dangling there so blue- c'est la vie
I think somewhere in Center City
Apart from everything hectic
In an apartment rising high skyward
The item lingering on the edge of ledge
Standing tall atop a...
Read More
Categories:
thereabouts, absence, abuse, conflict, death, dream, fate, journey,
Form:
Free verse