April, 11, 2018

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Coast Trails

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" About the old house lingers a faint essence of its past

a glamour of things strange

                             and gone beyond our ken...

     A date-palm waves in languid grace over the patio

                 casting its fronded shade over the defaced walls

                  and crazy balconies

A few rows of orange and olive trees 

                        drop their starved fruit among the weeds

                              And a ' Marechal Niel ' blooms secretly in a corner

                               of the deserted veranda "

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photo j. develyn in Carmel Valley, CA

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Marechal Niel climbing rose

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