Welcome
By Scott Zeidel
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These poems are peaceful celebrations of the Southern California desert, Scott Zeidel's home. He writes about the desert's profound beauty found in simple, unassuming plants and critters like desert dandelions, blue agaves, monarch butterflies, mockingbirds, kestrels, verdins, and doves.
But Zeidel's poetic voice has room for other things, too—a nostalgic tribute to his youth in "Childhood Quintet," a sweet whimsical cycle in "Four Love Songs," the humorous satire of "Headless Chicken Fish" and "The State of the Union Address," and the political anger of "To Be Exact."
Zeidel often uses a poetic language that's simple and direct, inspired by the Japanese haiku. He uses this concise language to discuss big things like birth, death, rebirth, and time. In Welcome you are invited to enter Zeidel's world of big questions with no answers, his world of bewilderment and wonder.
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Welcome - Scott Zeidel
Welcome
by
Scott Zeidel
Copyright 2022 by Scott Zeidel
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To Smoky, my love and muse
Table of Contents
Welcome
To Paint a Monarch
Desert Dandelion
Birth and Rebirth
Two Dove Songs
What Child Is This?
Good Morning
The State of the Union Address
Blue Agave
One Mockingbird
A Perfect Moment
Verdin
I Sit in Verdant Woods
Four Tanka
Life Represents a Road
The Road to Enlightenment
He’s a Wonderful Guitar Player
Kestrel
Water Colors in the Meadow
Two Desert Meditations
Pray for Me
Four Love Songs
Two Rumi Riffs
Smoky’s Sonnet
Is There a Person I Forgot to Kiss?
Sunbeam
Yucatan Vacation
To Be Exact
Blind
Three Wise Men
The Road Most Traveled By
Headless Chicken Fish
Phobos and Deimos
Vocational Training
Childhood Quintet
It’s a Good Thing We Like Each Other During the Covid Pandemic
Migrating Birds
Ashes
Aging
Hearing Mahler’s 2nd Symphony
Over the Sea
About The Author
Welcome
I have eyes in the back of my head,
see things living and dead,
sense things like the cat sneaking
out the back