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Nostalgia For Guantanamo
Next on the series of challenges for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 11 is to write a poem pertinent to places of origin. It seems to me that regardless of place of birth or my history of Hawai’i and California, the place that … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Absence, Beach, Best, Blue Beach, Bond, Brothers, Cable Beach, Cacti, Cactus Curtain, California, Children, Columbus, Company, Conserve, Courage, Cry, Cuba, Cuzco Beach, Deep, Desalination, Dust, Embrace, Endemic, Experience, Extended Family, Family, Family Beach, Fauna, Ferry Landing Beach, Fisherman's Point, Flavor, Flora, Fondness, Freedom, Friendship, Glass Beach, Grow Up, GTMO, Guantanamera, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Public Memory Project, Hawai'i, Heart, Hidden Beach, Horse, Island Hop, John Paul Jones Hill, Join, Landmine, Laugh, Leeward, Lesson, Lifetime, Live, Looking Back, Love, Memory, Na/GloPoWriMo, Natural History, Naval Base, Niknik Beach, No Man's Land, Nostaglia, Opuntia, Party, Photograph, Pirate, Place, Play, Poem, Poetry, Presence, Rain, Rainforest, Revolution, River, Rules, School, Semi Arid, Shape, Sisters, Small Town Living, Splash, Tales, Trails, Truest, Truth, Unique, Upper Hand, Water, William T. Sampson, Windmill Beach, Windward, Youth
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Retrospective
Lately, it seems I’ve been quietly introspective Caught up in a nostalgic, retrospective Thinking back on times that have long since past All those things that didn’t last Long drives out into the desert to see what we might Long … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Beach, California, Daily Prompt, Desert, Happiness, Lifetime, Long Drives, Mirage, Mountains, Nostalgic, Retrospective, Thinking, Wordpress
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Sonic Gems: No Doubt – Rock Steady
No Doubt is an American rock band that formed in Anaheim, California in 1986. Since 1994, the band has consisted of Gwen Stefani (vocals), Tony Kanal (bass and keys), Tom Dumont (guitar and keys) and Adrian Young (drums). Rock Steady … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Anaheim, California, Dancehall, Gwen Stefani, Rock, Rock Steady, Ska Punk, Sonic Gems
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Two Years Before the Mast – Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Two Years Before the Mast is Richard Henry Dana’s memoir of a two year sea voyage from Boston to California in 1834. It was published in 1840. The book was purposefully and deliberately written in sympathy for the treatment of the … Continue reading
California Dreamin’
California Dreamin’ by Michael Romani Still pictures form in my mind and remind me Of how much California is like living poetry Tip to tip in every trip a driven fascination It’s a macrocosm at every turn of Californication Us … Continue reading
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