Long Napa Poems

Everything seemed secure 
Inside the crystal palace safe and pure 
Welcoming the claret wine 
For a taste testing and dine 
This evening’s match 
Featuring best grapes from Burnley’s vineyard patch 
Such a glorious exhibition 
Sit...

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The ABCs of Things Green

Algae, alligator, artichoke, asparagus, aphids, Andradite,
Brussels sprouts, broccoli, Buffalo Treehopper, and beans,
Cuckoo Wasp, Cabbage, cucumber, Common Green Darner, and celery 
Dog Day Cicada, Delphinium flowers diopside and dioptase, (rocks),
Emeralds, eyes, endive,...

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From the depths of the sea like depths of the soul comes tsunami wave
On the restless sea billows of many meters rave
Enough to put average ship in an underwater grave
Even in modern ship wind its...

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Don't come to my house,after all.
Our Weimar Republic Governor,
regaled..." Ten people, that's all"


If you want to dance must be 20
feet away?
I heard a liberal state is outlawing
kissing soon, as they take more 
freedoms as we...

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My heart lies in the countryside
under the Napa rainbow laying low.
Big bright rolling valleys it has divide 
The woods through which we will go.

I met an explorer near lake Bazaleti
With a small cottage on a...

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Pea soup fog hung over the Napa Valley hills,
kissing April grape vines, row upon steep row,
with the lightest touch of dampness, soon
to dry in the hot California sun.

I'd just walked my Daughter down a rose
petal...

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             54, 000 California Acres Lost




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On a blustery winter night my loved one comes to dine.
The table is set for two in front of a cheerful fire and 
a candle flickers in delight beside one perfect yellow rose.
I greet my...

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Under a State of Emergency
         California Inferno


We thought 113 degrees was so bad?
Now people and pets have to run for their lives!
Whilst we sit cooly in out poetic
dives!
So absorbed in this community...

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APPETIZERS 

It licks it's raspy way across the land,
and peeks around and drools at our abode.
A plume of ash to blacken every man,
and leaves our children standing in the road.
Devours hot crackling sounds in baby's...

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I'd like to make a reservation please,
A quiet table on Friday at eight.
There will be a total of four that night,
I'm so excited I just can't wait !

You see, some friends I've yet to meet,
Are...

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Never been to Tuscany
But when it comes to wine,
Napa and Sonoma
As a substitute are fine.

Even on a rainy day,
The rows of endless vines,
Combined with endless hills
Create magnificent designs.

At every winery, you sip
And sample, sniff and...

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Prince of charm I could call him,
He’s as charming as the wind,
As attractive as the whirlwind
That carts the hearts of women. 

He roped the heart of Sandra 
On his way to California,
But the heart, so...

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I was on summer vacation
San Francisco was the destination
The warm breeze, spring in the air
All looked bright and fair
The crooked street
I so wanted to meet
And drive thru the China bazaar
Looking at exotic filled jars
The cable...

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