Hospitality Poems - Poems about Hospitality

It could be a friendly wave from a stranger; Or A "How are you doing?" from across the parking lot. At other times, just the simple words of, "Follow me". Northern Mississippi is where I was born and raised. It's where I was well taught about how to behave. After 17 years, having finished high school, I migrated North From the...

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Purple pauses peach pleasantries Offering hot coffee or sweet tea Warm welcomes with charming smile Sitting on the porch in southern style Saying hey to everyone of y’all Thickest accent in the way you talk Appreciative of nature that silver sings In eyes and hearts of soul that dreams...

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Backhanded compliments are meant to disturb Yet on surface pretend to be a polite white bird Giving fake hazel humor or slighted cranberry concern When the person pretending to teach needs to learn Learn the lessons of southern hospitality amber and If you’re guessing know you can catch these hands ...

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A pure Hawaiian of rare birth, living a life somewhat carefree, fed farm animals by this squirt, sticks and stones were real toys indeed, set trash ablaze, be on alert, a barefoot country kid, that's me, a runner on trails made of dirt, plucked berries from brush, fruits from trees, built sandcastles--swam first of seven seas. "I was young when we all left this...

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Sometimes, happiness is found in unexpected places, In the smiles of strangers who cross our paths, In the kindness of strangers who lend a hand, & in the stories of strangers who share their hearts. Yesterday, it was like a ray of sunshine, That broke through the clouds of loneliness, That warmed up the coldness of indifference, And brightened up the darkness...

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It happened to us twice In a Southern city. May it suffice to share one experience with you. ...

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I saw a man standing by the road He was bedraggled and beaten down, I passed him by, afraid to share my empty seat And thought how sad we have come to this In our self-satisfied want for nothing, Afraid, because we hear horror stories About those who have helped strangers, Denying ourselves the opportunity to bless. And, thinking of him, I must...

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McConnell says blacks are not whites So there's no need for voting rights They all have the perk Of going to work Though a few may need to work nights!...

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Many years ago when I was a traveling salesman, I met five post-graduate engineering students from Iran… educated, intelligent, and entrepreneurial. They pooled their resources and leased a restaurant. On another occasion, since Columbia is a small town, and I could find no lodging, My Iranian friends invited...

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What I have noticed here and there on campuses in medical service centers within hospitality sanctuaries in sane asylums Most of the language in exterior marketing and interior messaging cultures Has gently moved from internment and imprisonment and confinement and isolation and punishment, Whether voluntarily elected selected invited or imposed sentenced medicinal sterile purgative, Whether mental or physical, spiritual or natural, Has moved on to a more engaging empowering enlightening reconnection of multiculturally intelligent hospitality Inviting universal health care for reconnecting all, regardless of how irritating and silent and/or...

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EcoPolyPaths: Avenues for restoring stressed traumatized PolyVillage EcoCulture and marginalized Regenerative EarthJustice Usually inter-religiously inspired by asking What would I/We look sound green taste smell touch feel like making win/win healthy and safe co-passion with this sacred holistic room yard forest desert body of water state of trans-national soil mountain river home family tribe species relationship? Within this severed win/lose, yet potential win/win, integral inviting next situation....

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Fake sugar fake taste Fake flavor fake aroma Fake People fake hospitality Fake love fake encounter Fake knowledge fake brady Bye Keerthi bye Reddy....

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Gods of our land, this is Kola! Food by your very own hands baked, Which breathes life into us. He who brings Kola brings life, Here in my hands is Kola. May hospitality never leave us, May peace forever in our abode reside. May our brothers never betray us and let our sisters in cordiality bask....

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Graciousness comes with smile and laughter The perfect gesture to dismiss the gentle gaffe And permits the guest be assured that after Graciousness comes with smile and laughter Welcome all who enter in, hereafter To grace our homes with peace and joy Graciousness comes with smile and laughter The perfect gesture to dismiss the gentle gaffe. Written on November 23, 2020 For Mohan...

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Somewhere in her white house There was a gray future spouse Looking for cheese Doing as he please Enchanting accent came from the mouth A drawing sound noting the south Filled with luring charm Made a home by telling many a yarn Living in a guest quarter Which he could barely afford her Making his...

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