Welcome

By Scott Zeidel

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thomas-Jacob Publishing, LLC
• Release date: Jan 31, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201339852

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Welcome

by

Scott Zeidel

Copyright 2022 by Scott Zeidel

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the publisher, with the exception of brief quotations in a review.

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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