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    Under the Fan Palm
    Under the Fan Palm
    Under the Fan Palm
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    Under the Fan Palm

    By Richard George

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    Seventy-six verses: march through them in this book. All manner of meters, rhymes, stanza forms, syllabic and accentual verse, and free verse celebrating multiple natural occurrences and fauna, are represented here. The poet marks the seasons, flowers, and creatures of his ordinary life in extraordinarily limned bursts of clarity and vision.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard George
    Release dateMar 30, 2017
    ISBN9781370309740
    Under the Fan Palm
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    Richard George

    RICK GEORGE was appointed president and chief executive officer of Suncor Energy Inc. in 1991; he retired in spring 2012. He was named Canada’s Outstanding CEO of the Year in 1999 after leading a remarkable business turnaround at Suncor, and he received the Canadian Business Leader Award from the Alberta School of Business in 2000. George was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2007 for his leadership in the development of Canada’s natural resources sector,for his efforts to provide economic opportunities to Aboriginal communities, and for his commitment to sustainable development. Originally from Brush, Colorado, George lives with his family in Calgary, Alberta.

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      Book preview

      Under the Fan Palm - Richard George

      Under the Fan Palm

      Published By Richard W. George at Smashwords

      Copyright 2017 Richard W. George

      Also by Richard W. George published on Smashwords:

      A Chapter of Verse, poems

      Ben Soul, a novel

      Collected Poems, multiple verses

      Five Stories, five short stories

      Lines from a Gum Tree Grove, quatorzains about a marriage’s rise and fall

      Remembering Barbi, verses in memory of the poet’s late sister

      The Alphabestiary, twenty-six verses and pictures for an alphabet tied to animals

      Winter Poems, verses from a long winter

      Table of Contents

      Index of First Lines

      A Ballad for the Stars

      A Storm Comes

      Ancestors

      Apocalypse

      Beach Summer

      Bring Me My Beer

      Bugles

      Ceramic Insects

      Christmas Meditation

      Clouds Ride the Wind

      Conundrum

      Coulter’s Daisies

      Cypresses

      Daffodils

      Day Lilies

      Desert Life

      Earwigs

      Emancipation

      Eucalyptus

      Evergreens

      First Quatrain

      Funeral Plans

      Ghost Ship Warehouse Fire

      Hurrah

      I Hear Ladies Singing

      Inspired by Horace

      I Wonder

      I Wrap Me in Clouds

      Irises

      January Day

      Loss Song

      Light Among the Gloom

      Little Rose

      Music Boxes

      My Pets

      My Quiet Time

      Night Ends

      Ode to Ganja

      Old Age

      One January Day

      Oyster Girl

      Pelargoniums

      Pindaric Ode

      Poets of Old

      Quetzalcoatl

      Rain Song

      Red-Winged Blackbird

      Rose-Red Skies

      Ruminations

      Shadorma

      Spring Equinox

      Spring Tanka

      Sunset Sestina

      Tell Me Tales

      The Boy’s Sparrow

      The Cold Villanelle

      The Cuckoos

      The Dying Katydid

      The Heart Can Be Dark

      The Dream

      The Eastward Peaks

      The Ladies Took Tea

      The Lucky Boy

      The Lusty Youth

      The Meadowlark

      The Oriole

      The Robin

      The Seasons Come ‘Round

      The Seekers

      The Small Rain

      Thought

      Uncompanioned

      Unrhymed Quatorzain

      Waiting for Night

      Winter Night

      Winter Solstice

      Winter Wind

      Ceramic Insects

      Ceramic insects

      Shelter under the fan palm

      Waiting for rain to fall.

      Overhead the clouds are full

      And spill over on the ground.

      She glazed and fired them

      With exotic hues unknown

      To the natural bugs

      Biologists have labeled.

      She treasured her artifacts.

      I keep them under

      The fan palm in my backyard.

      I treasure them, too,

      Because she made them. She died,

      My kid sister whom I loved.

      I go to watch them

      And think of the happy times

      We had together

      Before she made the insects,

      Before she left for Heaven.

      Table of Contents--Index of First Lines

      First Quatrain

      My scribbled verses are written down with

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