Under the Fan Palm

By Richard George

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richard George
• Release date: Mar 30, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370309740

Richard George

Rich George is the owner and managing director of NOI Coach, a business coaching, consulting and training firm based in Michigan. A successful business person and published author with over 25 years of experience, Rich brings a no-nonsense approach to strategic planning and a passion for employee development and culture building. Rich's background includes the management of over two billion dollars of real-estate assets, and over 50 million dollars of capital re-investment strategies. Rich has been involved with successful acquisitions, dispositions, merger facilitation, and repositions. Key to his portfolio is the management of highly distressed properties, including those in court receivership. Rich attended Wayne State University and is a licensed Real Estate Broker. He has been recognized by his peers as a leader in the industry serving in many different rolls within the National Apartment Association and is a current member of the NAAEI Faculty as well as the MHLI Faculty. Rich was recognized as one of the first graduates of the Leadership Lyceum and has received the honor of the CAPS, CDPM, CDUHM, ARM, and the CHPE designations. Rich's "no-nonsense" approach to problem solving has helped companies accomplish their goals, as well as turnaround seriously distressed properties. His passion for the industry, and dedication to the "people" part of the business, has caused him to be known for building some of the greatest property management teams ever assembled. Known for his team building, culture changing, and change management skills, Rich leads the market in promotion and preservation. To Contact Rich: E-Mail: [e-mail] Phone: [phone] www.noicoach.com

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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