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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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