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A Clerk's Lament

...A Clerk's Lament

A Clerk's Lament to the question “nine percent sales tax?” 
“I'm just 22 and I simply don't care. 
What's the point? 
I cannot change anything and going nowhere.” 

“That'll ...

Categories: sonoma, cancer, car, care, career,
Form: Rhyme

54,000 California Acres Lost

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             54, 000 California Acres Lost




            While you're snug in your pajamas 
            Or having French Toast,
            Californians are b...

Categories: sonoma, america, angst, prayer,
Form: Rhyme

Sonoma Harvest

...Grapevines flow in gentle lines
blanketing the rich hillsides.
Clothed in hues of golds and reds
harvest barreled wine in sheds.  

Dappled light breaks misty morn
blackbirds stir and are rebor...

Categories: sonoma, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Appetizers

...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 cr...

Categories: sonoma, death, fire, loss, Lullaby,
Form: Sonnet

PALOMINO

...Down in Sonoma, down on my luck 
Needing a horse, down to my last buck 
Man said 'That Pallo he's the devil to ride 
You can have him for the shotgun by your side'. 
'Throw in the saddle,' I said...

Categories: sonoma, beauty,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

Life Is What Happens

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Life Is What Happens

What a long, strange life it’s been.
Childhood and adolescence were close to normal,
I never felt quite right,
Never fit my image of a normal kid.
Dealing w...

Categories: sonoma, bereavement, emotions, life, lonely,
Form: Free verse

Wine Country

...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...

Categories: sonoma, food, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Home Alone

...Sitting in the dark
sipping Sonoma burgundy
listening to a Japanese soprano
sing Verdi.
Moon through the window’s 
world of song,
I’ll take my solo self
off to bed....

Categories: sonoma, art, introspection, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse