Jacqueline Trestrail
...On this day 40 years ago in 1978 my mother, Jacqueline Anne Trestrail, left this world after a relatively short battle with cancer - she was 46. Jimmy Carter was President and Annie Hall won best...
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Categories:
michener, mother, tribute,
Form: Prose
I Am Not As Innocent As the Small Bird Who Sits On Her Nest On the Ground
...Next to where I work where they make electric cars
Where they used to make gasoline powered cars and trucks
near where groves and groves of orchards once grew
The small birds now nestle their youn...
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Categories:
michener, adventure,
Form: Carpe Diem
Merci, Mr Michener
...I was born too late ... not far too late, but about seventeen years ...
Or so, for I have always been too old-fashioned, (In a romantic, true love
Sense), for the time period and era I...
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Categories:
michener, appreciation, books, romance, world,
Form: Free verse
This Is Why I Love Writing
...Edgar Rice Burroughs went beyond stars
To write of epics of Thuvia the maid of Mars,
Of Tarzan raised by Apes and Venus and Pellucidar,
Having stuck to his pen and paper, not wandering afar.
W...
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Categories:
michener, write, writing,
Form: Light Verse