Thereabouts Poems - Poems about Thereabouts

...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.......Read the rest...

... It looked like a bleached tongue pulled from a mouth, petrified and incapable now of letting a word slide over its calcified silence. I picked it out of the wet sand and held it in my hand. ......Read the rest...

...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 deal with if they come......Read the rest...

... What a strange word is mnemonic far easier to say than to write or spell! It sound like a disease or nonsense incensed to mislead But after you get over that it makes sense to use phase......Read the rest...

...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 an......Read the rest...

...There was a paddock at the end of the street locals called No Man's Land. It was a few acres of wild let loose inside a suburban brick and asphalt order. Plenty of open grass, trees to climb, ......Read the rest...

...Are all these eyes imbued With a magic of Soft awed insightfulness Under Autumn's spell. To note, in both apple And what thereabouts Old carted, rusty leaved Alike fair does swell.......Read the rest...

...Four Billion years or thereabouts Earth has orbited its appointed place Slowly and surely developing into A safe and hospitable living space What a strange year this has been Year Two Thousan......Read the rest...

...The sky is falling, orange and round In quantities that do astound Collecting morning, noon, and night Even in dark, with a flashlight And all of this from one main tree Thank God we don’t have ......Read the rest...

...Heavenly body spinning around Through a Solar System as the 3rd one down Are we the only ones with their own planet As life grows in and on it Beautiful blue sky spreading out As we trace arou......Read the rest...

... Camping on the sandy shore of the beach Getting bored by the waves and their screech Sitting around the camp after cooking out It was so much fun just talking at our hangout Soo......Read the rest...

...The Out-Going Treasurer had me briefed But through the released records I still leafed, Just in case a thing was tightly overlooked And I some tomorrow hatefully booked Over some books I had bare......Read the rest...

...I dreamt I built brick by brick a house Where you and I and the whole world stayed thereabouts I dreamt that our race, gender, and religion didn’t matter And that our kids played with each other ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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 e......Read the rest...