Verandah Poems - Poems about Verandah

...Rumi's quote: If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? If you are irritated by every rub, How will your mirror be polished?" - his love For wisdom wrapped in words,......Read the rest...

...Santa Claus is coming. This isn’t a luck situation. He knows things, like if you’re sleeping. Which is kind of creepy if you think about it. I suppose I’m an open book. It’s an implacable realit......Read the rest...

...My bones are creaking and my bed is squeaking Im one short of eighty nine Bosom friends come gather around me Lets crack some jokes and drink some wine Long lost relatives are looking me up Thei......Read the rest...

...I saw Pop sitting just outside the veranda, slumped over in his wheelchair, his limp left arm tied to the chair’s railing. He looked up and waved with his good hand. “Sara!” he called with delight.......Read the rest...

...The mouse My wife was opening the door to the verandah when she spotted a mouse and fled to the kitchen and shouted, “Kill it, kill it!” I picked up the small animal hiding under a dry leaf th......Read the rest...

...Soldiers with the cornered colonel Said to crack him like a kernel, Easily made him surrender, Account of his orders render… Colonel Smith, on his neck flannel, Suddenly facing a Panel In his......Read the rest...

...The magic hour The day is ending, and time is one hour back but the day still serves early twilight From the window of a tourist resort, I see the mountain range I lived beyond, in a village w......Read the rest...

...The none affair The celebration ran into a Dogger bank that had been trawled of fishy life and turned into windblown sand of the endlessly repeated. Take-away food and Portuguese soap tritenes......Read the rest...

...From The 5th Floor She heard him crying, while chips she was frying. Ran towards the door, to treat the conflict amongst the four. In between busy streets of ‘Burrabazar’, amongst t......Read the rest...

...Did I tell you I went to the Beach last week? The wind picked up mightily as I Stepped out onto the hotel verandah And the tall royal palm trees lining the courtyard Lifted and bent their majest......Read the rest...

...APPEARANCE It was just another day. The heat was as thick as the cloud of dust my car kicked up on the long dirt road to my friend’s house, an oasis of order in the central Florida jungle a......Read the rest...

...Appearance It was just another day. The heat was as thick as the cloud of dust my car kicked up on the long dirt road to my friend’s house, an oasis of order in the central Florida jungle a......Read the rest...

...I have seen them stand outside my door, pleading mother to help stage their show, on our verandah with stony floor, tattered clothes, hungry child, wife on tow! dusty robes speak of mi......Read the rest...

...Horizons I sit on the verandah look at the sea no ships in today open view until the horizon after that, on the other side there are new limits I have seen many horizons, some of them are blu......Read the rest...

...the last days of exams and school, and beginning of hot summer, licking fresh ice lollies to cool, eat mangoes without number! no more reading no more homework, all of the day is mine to spend, ......Read the rest...