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Thereabout Poems - Poems about Thereabout

An Altruist Unsung
... She lived beside the old temple that has stood For years on the rocky bank of the silent river Flowing all through the lining greenery cover , The woods and the arable land rich and goo......

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Categories: thereabout, life,
Form: Narrative
Dear Michio, Goodbye
...Dimensional slippage conceived from without Length, width, and height time squared thereabout Spacetime endemic on gravity’s spire Black Holes ill rumored supernova inspired Fourth, fifth......

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Categories: thereabout, philosophy, science,
Form: Rhyme



Telling White Lies
...Telling "White Lies" My mother got born November thirteenth, nineteen hundred thirty five within poverty stricken household of Canarsie, Brooklyn, the youngest (most mollycoddled) of four sibl......

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Categories: thereabout, abuse, age, america, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Before Memorial Day
...Momma lies in the old, old cemetery -- [A space] and then her third grandchild Stillborn after long, disappointing labor. Now largely neglected, I go when I can Seldom seeing a living......

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Categories: thereabout, memorial day,
Form: Free verse
The Longest Life
...The long life The knowledge of living forever is already here all one has to do is renew the old cells for new ones once a year starting when forty or thereabout when a person is self-sufficie......

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Categories: thereabout, absence, blessing, irony,
Form: Sonnet



Praise
...An old farmer, his wife and little daughter, had dinner in their farm house before going to sleep, A gang of four thieves, showed up on the farm in a dirty, old truck, to steal sheep, They br......

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Categories: thereabout, music, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Color of Friendship
...At the corner of King and Far West Street A newly arrived German family They'd given birth to one We were twelve or thereabout I saw her in twilight of Hit Parade on radio Belize I'd just walked......

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Categories: thereabout, anger, childhood, confusion, emotions,
Form: Bio
The Rose Garden
...Melanie chopped down the trees (Not by herself, of course) That Jackie planted, just so she Could get on her high horse. The critics all swooped in to say It’s “empty,” “cold,” and “white,” R......

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Categories: thereabout, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Night Fall
...Night has fallen, day will rest It is so, east to west Darkness will cover, sun will diminish What day brought, night will finish Reciprocal in time, precious to keep Each rotation terminates,......

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Categories: thereabout, night,
Form: Rhyme
Telling White Lies
...Telling "White Lies" My mother got born November thirteenth, nineteen hundred thirty five within poverty stricken household of Canarsie, Brooklyn, the youngest (most mollycoddled) of four sibl......

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Categories: thereabout, abuse, age, america, child
Form: Ballad
Upon Discovering a Wishbone
...Upon Discovering A Wishbone... (to late for Hanukkah) I attach very little value, nee doubt to farfetched linkedin phenomena brought about when breaking off the larger section of a wishbo......

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Categories: thereabout, allah, angel, faith, irony,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Amazing Facts Three
...The weight of all the ants in the world is greater Than all us humans, think someone's off their tater How does one figure this out Maybe it's just a thereabout Or some guy spends his lif......

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Categories: thereabout, inspirational,
Form: Limerick
A Love's Dialogue
...Unique: I need someone to hold me and tell me it's alright. I need someone to hold my hands and feel my pain. I need someone to kiss away my pain. I need someone to look into my eyes and tell m......

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Categories: thereabout, allusion,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Your Brains Will Fall Out
...If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out That's downright silly, whoever said that deserves a clout Of course it ain't true Look at me and you Our brains are still up there or......

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Categories: thereabout, silly,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Cataracts
...Cataracts are bothering me, checking it out Blurry at best, peeing in the sink or thereabout Walk into walls Drink ethanol Lately by mistake, I've even eaten sauerkraut......

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Categories: thereabout, surreal,
Form: Limerick

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