Famous Verandas Poems by Famous Poets

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Another Awkward Stage Of Convalescence

...itable,
just as the dark-skinned would kiss
the light-skinned and those with money
and lakefront homes would open
their verandas and offer trays

of cucumber sandwiches to the poor
scuttling along the fringes of their lawns
looking for holes in the concertina wire.
Of course I had to share this ocean
of acceptance and was soon on the phone
with a woman from Nogales whose hips

had gone steady with mine. I told her
I was over her by pretending I was just
a friend calling to sa...Read more of this...
by Hicok, Bob


In the Next Galaxy

...one will lose their sight, 
their hearing, their gallbladder. 
It will be all Catskills with brand 
new wrap-around verandas. 
The idea of Hitler will not have vibrated yet. 
While back here, 
they are still cleaning out 
pockets of wrinkled 
Nazis hiding in Argentina. 
But in the next galaxy, 
certain planets will have true 
blue skies and drinking water. ...Read more of this...
by Stone, Ruth

The Plea of the Simla Dancers

...and meet --
By wine that sparkled, and by sparkling eyes --
 By wailing waltz -- by reckless gallop's strain --
By dim verandas and by soft replies,
 Give us our ravished ball-room back again!

Or -- hearken to the curse we lay on you!
 The ghosts of waltzes shall perplex your brain,
And murmurs of past merriment pursue
 Your 'wildered clerks that they indite in vain;
And when you count your poor Provincial millions,
 The only figures that your pen shall frame
Shall be the f...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

White Nassau

...he old-world leisure, the regal tropic calm;
The trade winds fan her forehead; in everlasting June
She reigns from deep verandas above her blue lagoon.

She has had many suitors,--Spaniard and Buccaneer,--
Who roistered for her beauty and spilt their blood for her;
But none has dared molest her, since the Loyalist Deveaux
Went down from Carolina a hundred years ago.

Unmodern, undistracted, by grassy ramp and fort,
In decency and order she holds her modest court;
She seems to...Read more of this...
by Carman, Bliss

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