Homefolk and Heartache: Vineyard Views, #2

By D. Lionberger

Feel the joys and sorrows of family, the pain and pleasure of life on the homefront.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Daniel Lionberger
• Release date: Feb 4, 2019
• ISBN: 9781386384588

D. Lionberger

Retirement has provided the opportunity to take the plunge I have longed for-- to immerse myself in the waters of creative writing. Whether torpedoed, or not, it is a mental medium that may prevent torpidity from setting in.

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Captured in Amber

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He found her in the bowling alley

of a small town they had never been to.

He drank in the vision of the girl,

who died seventeen years before,

unchanged at twenty-five.

Through the warm ale,

at the bottom of his glass,

he swallowed remnants of the past,

tasting again, and again,

the intoxicating elixir,

bittersweet, her memory,

captured in amber.

He, repeatedly,

heaved the heavy, black object away,

too often, landing in the gutter.

She picked up a little blonde boy,

just like the one she had left him,

joyfully wriggling him above

her upturned face, before leaving

with her abrupt, overbearing, obese husband.

Chablis or not Chablis

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White wine,

lacking effervescence,

dry,

with unforgiving bouquet

and bitter aftertaste,

is a poor choice

for the wedding.

Covered By Your Love

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You pieced together a family,

bandaged skinned knees and elbows,

mended feelings that were hurt,

and stubbed toes, with patches of healing.

You learned the ways of genealogy,

helped us