Poems of Lighthouse Bob

Painted Ladies of San Francisco Envelope Couplets #554



Painted Ladies of San Francisco Envelope Couplets

Amongst the Painted Ladies dressed like pearls
that make a narrow path and boundless curl
with ornamental flavor and with frills
about the open bosom, so the hills
extended once toward heaven have been hurled
amongst the Painted Ladies dressed like pearls.


Amongst the Painted Ladies dressed like pearls,
Saint Francis now adorned for all the world
sits leisurely excluded on the bay
with cable cars and Castro District gays
who once were boys but now have changed to girls
amongst the Painted Ladies dressed like pearls.


Amongst the Painted Ladies dressed like pearls,
the fog supports Embarcadero swirls
of visionary suits who've come to be
the melting pot of all society
wherein does modern industries unfurl
amongst the Painted Ladies dressed like pearls.


Amongst the Painted Ladies dressed like pearls,
a homeless watches Golden Gate Park squirrels
just down the street from Haight-Ashbury flops
where ‘Heaven's not so far away' is plopped
and psychedelic wheels of love will whirl
amongst the Painted Ladies dressed like pearls.





Painted Ladies = Victorian style homes











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