Long Rancho Poems

Busy time very frustrating watching my 
husband and ciro gargano go over the 
blue prints over and over again during 
the 1984 elections for lake county Daniel 
Furlan Bobby Thompson Ernest Fisher Ciro 
was looking...

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  Oh, to be in Trinidad
when the hot scented currents flow,
  from East Dry River to Nariva 
chaconia and silk cotton tree grow.
  Where reaching palms whisper
across island reef and coconut lagoon,
...

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  Where sets the sun again
far from the din of Port of Spain
  shadows fall on the plain.
And on that plain over I strode
when the wind its trees winnowed
  up the old...

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Of Laurius' Rancho San Luis Ore,
a distant place, Don Jose now spoke.

"Margarita now speaks of traveling to Luis Ore tomorrow, Don Huerra."
"Is that true? it seems I've arrived at a most auspicious time. Perhaps you'll...

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Don Arracho was fifty-four years old.
Rancho de Plata, gained from mission sale,
was Arracho's for price of a little gold.
Officials closed the mission's door, sad tale
when Spaniards came to grief and hold did fail.
Church gave release...

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Was gold cross over alter fake or real?
Must be a metal made resembling gold.
T'was fake young lady's mind did surely feel,
not right apse having gold cross real to hold.
This so until then otherwise was told.
Her...

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It’s thirteen thousand miles from Boston to
San Diego around  far Cape Horn’s way.
Ship needs to sail to that distant quay.
The Cape is a hard challenge for the crew
It’s where the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans meet...

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In the eighteen hundreds some double-teethed skeletons were found.
In California, Ireland, Minnesota, Tennessee and Ohio, truly all around.
Were they humans? Many children ask as I begin to tell the tale.
Human-like, possibly giants or ogres, I...

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Hernandez's Christian name is Jose Sor
and brother's Christain name is Miquel Rey.
Don Miquel owns Rancho San Luis Ore
and steer did gore Don Miquel's face one day.
The horn left deep scar wounding cheek bad way.
His tenper's...

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So cinch tight my shimmering dark sorrel
With fine hand-tooled saddle of silver inlay—
I’ll pull on my calfskin chaparajos
And through that old heartpine gate I’ll ride away.

I’ve been too long on this sagebrush prairie.
Through many a...

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Prepossessing pair liquefy as a still river’s exquisite glaze ~
An undercurrent ripples in the lazy meander to ply compliance
Yellow tones of twilight seep slowly, warming a cold demeanor

These two play in crepuscular light, ensconced in...

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Rancho la Joya stretches out for miles
the horses are gone--but not the corrals
with a black dog named Boo, who watches it all
from late in the evening to every breaking dawn

one silver horse is all that...

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Rancho San Luis Ore encompassed plain
of Laurius between the mountains nigh.
"Vicioso", ferocious grizzly, bane
to Miquel's peace of mind, lived close near by.
Don Miquel's spirit made him need to try
to capture honey loving beast for sport.
This...

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This is a Rosarian Sonnet in pentameter


I wanted to see a new sailing ship.
To Dana Point I went, just a short trip,
I toured  the Brig Pilgrim, gift from Denmark
to the United States honoring great
Henry...

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We understand your busy so instead of coming to your home, we can quote your solar and/or...

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