Curtis Johnson Poet Acrostic

Sunflower

Some years ago, I moved North of the Bay and East of the Sea.

Unable to stay any longer in the City by The Bay, we moved away.

Needless to say, It wasn't about 'smarts',  but about 'needing to eat'.

For the further one got from that Bay, the more affordable life became.

Little did we know at the time, our new abode would be our home for so long.

Of places we've called home, none surpasses the 'feel of home' we feel here.

Where is home really, if no rivers run through it or heat waves don't put the 
   fear of God in you?

Each sunflower and the seeds it bears also call it home, attesting that 'there's 
   no place like home'.

Rest assured and inform lovers of sunflower seeds that the water is scarce, 
   but sunflowers thrive.

052121PSCtest, Sunflower, Malabika Ray Choudhury

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Malabika Ray Choudhury June 1, 2021 at 9:01 AM Congratulations. It's a lovely poem ~ Mala

Eve Roper May 31, 2021 at 7:59 PM When you are in love , where ever your mate feels he can make a home, it doesn't matter where it is, you love it because you love your mate.

Andrea Dietrich May 24, 2021 at 3:58 PM oh I had not heard of this place. I lived by the Bay right before and after the big earthquake. We were in Hayward, not a great place to raise kids, so we went back to Utah when Joe had no more work to do CA construction. It's so nice to find a home like this where you can put down roots. We have now lived more than half our married life in our city, Pleasant Grove!!