Milton Creek Election Week
...Judge Horne issued a decree that elections take place this week
For the positions of mayor and sheriff in the town of Milton Creek
It had now been nearly four years and was somewhat overdue
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Categories:
sacramento, america, conflict, prison,
Form: Narrative
Ode To Fruit Friends
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I was despondent that I had to leave them.
Moving two thousand miles away, it was
unlikely that I would ever see them again.
They were trees, but it seemed somehow
They knew that we would be fo...
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Categories:
sacramento, friendship, fruit,
Form: Ode
She is a River
...“Women can change better’n a man,” Ma said soothingly. “Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.”
“Man, he lives in jerks-baby born an’ a man dies, an’ that’s a jerk-gets a fa...
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Categories:
sacramento, allegory, america, freedom, humanity,
Form: Verse
My Friend Arthur
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We were bused from Sacramento to Reno.
We rode a train from Reno to Salt Lake City.
We then bused from SLC to Kansas City.
Somewhere along the I-80 route,
we crossed the Great Divide.
At t...
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Categories:
sacramento, family, friend,
Form: Narrative
My Friend, Time
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From Sacramento to Indianapolis, she accompanied me
on the plane, ever reminding me that she was there.
She lived with me day and night for a year or more,
tightly holding my hands both physic...
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Categories:
sacramento, pain, time,
Form: Personification
Let It Be Written 3
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“I thought about the former days, the years of long ago.” Psalms 77:5 NIV
If you saw something beautiful in a people, a place, a thing;
If you heard about something captivating and fantastic;...
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Categories:
sacramento, family,
Form: Prose Poetry
Golden Years In the Golden State
...driving our kids west . . .
our past life vanishing in
the rear view mirror
I don’t recall many details about our move to California. My husband’s job had transferred him two states over to Cali...
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Categories:
sacramento, life,
Form: Haibun
My Blossoms
...When the season of splendor sprinkles
the scent of sprightliness,
when the koels and kingfishers sing hymns of hope
and merrily waltz their wings of chartreuse dreams, and
when from her day dre...
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Categories:
sacramento, hope, muse, spring,
Form: Free verse
Sacramento
...SUNDAY mornings and sunsets at their very best
AND my neighbors were among the very best people
COMMONALITY and Community embrace her atmosphere
REALISTS make room for both optimists and pes...
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Categories:
sacramento, city, home,
Form: Acrostic
Personal Awakenings
...I have been kissed by lots of breezes.
I was kissed by a passing breeze;
Like the humid breeze from
the Gulf of Mexico.
I was kissed by a passing breeze;
Like that Chicago breeze
from the Win...
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Categories:
sacramento, girl, god, people, political,
Form: Verse
Happy Birthday America
...Good morning, America.
It's nice to spend a few quiet moments with you,
moments of brief and sweet reflections that are as real
to me as the morning dew. Such reflections represent
a small fra...
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Categories:
sacramento, america,
Form: Verse
Back To Nature
..."Can you feel the soul of an abandoned house;
can you hear the whispering? "
Quote by _Constance La France
I suspect that most major cities have abandoned houses.
I have lived in three large ...
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Categories:
sacramento, childhood, home, house,
Form: Narrative
Greatest Generation
...Being privileged to have known scores of
Americans known as 'the greatest generation',
I attest to the reality of their greatness.
Herein, greatness will not reference those who went
off to war...
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Categories:
sacramento, america, family,
Form: Narrative
I Miss Sacramento
...I have lived in three out of the four regions in America.
My experiences in some of them have been less than civil.
Issues in life, good and bad, may linger with us for life.
Stories that plague...
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Categories:
sacramento, home,
Form: Acrostic
Peace
...Peace
The lonely island
The soothing water sounds
The various shaped marshmallows in the sky
The fish which live and travel under the water
Wherever there is only pace is where I wish to be
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Categories:
sacramento, anxiety, christian, dream, life,
Form: Free verse
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