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Derek Walcott Short Poems

Famous Short Derek Walcott Poems. Short poetry by famous poet Derek Walcott. A collection of the all-time best Derek Walcott short poems


by Derek Walcott
 The Sea Is History



by Derek Walcott
 Broad sun-stoned beaches.

White heat.
A green river.

A bridge,
scorched yellow palms

from the summer-sleeping house
drowsing through August.

Days I have held,
days I have lost,

days that outgrow, like daughters,
my harbouring arms.

Coral  Create an image from this poem
by Derek Walcott
 This coral's hape ecohes the hand
It hollowed. Its

Immediate absence is heavy. As pumice,
As your breast in my cupped palm.

Sea-cold, its nipple rasps like sand,
Its pores, like yours, shone with salt sweat.

Bodies in absence displace their weight,
And your smooth body, like none other,

Creates an exact absence like this stoneSet on a table with a whitening rack

Of souvenirs. It dares my hand
To claim what lovers' hands have never known:

The nature of the body of another.


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