Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, COME HOME, by ELEANOR C. KOENIG


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COME HOME, by                    
First Line: Come home, john kane, things have changed in our valley
Last Line: Come home, come home and -- do not dally.
Subject(s): Absence; Home; Reunions; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips


Come home, John Kane, things have changed in our valley;
Come home, come home, and do not dally.

Now I will say the winter was lonely;
Life was not meant for a woman only.

Such snow -- hard drifts piled up like a mountain,
But -- there came a flood leaping like a fountain,

And such a spring was never before;
In March I have opened wide our door.

Yesterday came a rainbow, a great, green arch!
Who ever heard of a rainbow in March?

In the burned lot I have found young shoots, --
Blossoms springing from old, charred roots!

To Kate Trimble, the childless one,
Twenty years barren, is born a son!

You know and I know what words were spoken
But -- there have been signs -- vows may be broken!

Now I will say the winter was lonely,
Life was not meant for a woman only.

Come home, John Kane, things have changed in our valley;
Come home, come home and -- do not dally.





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