I just entered my poem in Belmont’s Poetry 360 Project.
The Amazons of Yellowstone
by
John Janke
The Amazon forest
burns hot tonight
my love.
Soon
there will be no oxygen
in the air
To breath, my love
my love of air
is no equal
to my memory of you
In the last
of everything
in the consuming sparks
that dance around the moon
I save my last breath
for you
For you
my last sigh
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Art
“Dear Earth” Community Poetry
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An Interactive Installation
Crafted by Belmont Poet Laureate Monica Korde, the latest addition to this year’s “Project POETRY 360” initiatives is an interactive installation at the Belmont Library urging community members to share uplifting personal sentiments or messages directed towards the Earth and centered around the theme “Planet vs. Plastic.”
At the project’s conclusion, a collective poem will be crafted using all contributed words and messages. Drop by the Belmont Library throughout April 2024 to witness the development of this community endeavor and be a part of a poetic creation for National Poetry Month 2024.
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Rena Montana of Yellowstone
Posted on June 3, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
Rena Montana by John Presco Copyright 6/2/23
Rena Montana
by
John Presco
Copyright 2023
I watched three episodes of Yellowstone last night. What a terribly maudlin show, that you could tell was leading up to a Native American getting shot by a Angry White Man. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Kevin is going hog wild about his property he owns in the land Roy Rosamond and his wife, Mary Magdalene – roamed – without a cent! Yet they, and their offspring, got what Costner can’t get with all his millions and choice real-estate – a real Western – a sense that you belong here. and are the Real McCoy. After spending fifty million dollars putting their choice property on the line – his wife left him. I think she knows to – want it all -is to lose it all, because you are declaring – you don’t have it!
It! What is – IT? Is IT – a story?
Not far away from the Costner Sea-ranch, I plucked Rena Easton from the edge of the sea, and on Santa Barbara beach, I discovered she is afraid of the ocean. I did a large painting of her. I asked her to send me a photograph of her profile, and she jumped into an old pay photo booth. According to Garth Benton, who is kin to the Western Artist, Thomas Hart Benton, my sister used a projector and images of models cut out of fashion magazines, to become one of the wealthiest artists of our time. Christine Rosamond Benton has Rena Christensen Easton to thank. They met once, in Venice California.
Neither Cristine nor Irene knew Dollie Rosamond was buried on the same grave as her mother, Ida Rosamond, born, Ida Rose On this day, I raise Dollie from the dead, along with Carl Janke and folk, buried in the same grave in Redwood City What if, Dollie survived the Yellow Fever, and become the most beautiful young woman anyone has ever seen? She is called….The Red Rose of Yellowstone! When John Muri came upon her he thought he was seeing things. He swore he saw the ghost of a Greek Goddess.
“She’s different than any human I ever met. I suspect she died of the fever -but then came back. She practically raised herself. She claimed a pack of wolves raised her up!.
One day a handsome young man came into Yellowstone on a horse. riding with him were San Francisco business men. Some of them were foreigners. They wanted to purchase land that Muir wanted included in Yellowstone park. John Janke was the son of Carl Janke who brought six portable houses around the Cape and erected them suth of San Francisco. William Ralston ‘The Man Who Built San Francisco’ bought one, then added to it to make a fine house in the city that would be called….Belmont! It was here that the Janke family built a German Wonderland. These businessmen represent Prussian Royalty who wanted to build their own Vonderland in the wilderness – before it was gone. No sooner did Mr. Janke open his mouth, and deliver The Rose a winning smile, Rena cut him off – at the pass!
“Your’re trespassing on our land. You have no business here. Turn around and go back!
Baron von Studtmeister translated this old phrase into German, then gave his beautful Trakhner horse a slight signal to it’s ribs, and this War Horse – advanced! Rena had been admiring it, and her pack was sniffing it from on the other side of the rocks – that they mounted, and they took in the humans and their pack horses. Ralph Stutdmeistter was impressed. His Teutonic ancestors worshipped the wolf. He was named after a wolf – and the Master of the Horse! . Taking in the startling clear blues eyes of Rena, he lost interest in the cattle, the buffalos, and the giant trees. He had to have her. so did John Janke. And thus began the Great Western Rivalry that would carve out a Hidden Empire, that has remained a secret, to this day.
Rena told me her three older sisters were models, and one was the mistress of Robert Vesco.
“How come you don’t want to be a model like your sisters?”
“I don’t like their lifestyle!”
Rena got married again to a man who owns a small cattle ranch in Montana. What does that tell you?
Ms. Easton, I tried to tell you, I tried to give you, the title Sleeping Beauty. I told you were responsible for Rosamond’s success, and the success of Sarah Moon – who copied my sister’s style. His fans thought I was Sarah – an Iranian man who disguised himself as a woman! His real identity was unknow for many years. Sounds like the problem you got in Montana – that more gnarly cowboyism will solve?
. On Monday I will be taking two floppy discs to my computer guy to get them on the right track so I can publish them. The Gideon Computer is unfinished, but Chameleon Art – is done! This prophetic short story was written in 1987, the years I got sober.
“This is the birth of Artificial Intelligence!”
I will be known as The Emperor of Artistic Artifical Intelligence. You will be known as…
The Artistic Muse of Artificial Intelligence!. You are…..The Empress of Yellowstone!
Kevin! Abandon that project. This is the story the Emperor Computer has written for you to produce! Human Beings want – and need a Love Story – and not a sad story about a billionaire grumblepuss landowner who can’t find happiness. How boring. Not – my problem! When folks read it, they will proclaim…..
“About time!”
I wake up each day vondering how I can render – Rena! At least I used to. Eureka!
John Janke wrote a poem to Rena, first in High German, then, English. Von Studmeister got wind of this poem, and had Joaquin Miller help him with his poem. All three men were members of The Bohemian Club. The greatest poetry contest known to humankind, was underway!
The Amazons of Yellowstone
by
John Janke
The Amazon forest
burns hot tonight
my love.
Soon
there will be no oxygen
in the air
To breath, my love
my love of air
is no equal
to my memory of you
In the last
of everything
in the consuming sparks
that dance around the moon
I save my last breath
for you
For you
my last sigh
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Art
Royal’s Montana Stories
Posted on July 7, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
My grandfather lived in Montana.
Jon
The Rhyming Miner
Montana’s Giant Janitor
Posted on August 24, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
“Phoebe Hearst, wife of George Hearst and mother of William Randolph Hearst, had a great affection for the town of Anaconda. She offered to build a library for its citizens. They accepted the offer, knowing that a library would give the people a chance to better themselves.”
BORN OF TWO ROSES
A half hour ago I talked to Deborah Cryder at the Forestvale Cemetary. She is going to send me information on Ida Rose who died when she was 28 years of age of dropsy. Twenty days later, Ida’s daughter, Dollie Rosamond, diim short.es. She is less then one year old. Royal Rosamond lost his mother and baby sister in one fail swoop. He must have been traumatized. Then, his father gets remarried to a Mildred, who may not have wanted Frank around, and he is “bound” out to his uncle, James Taylor, who married Ida’s sister, Laura Rosamond. Frank will call William Scott Spaulding his father. Did William adopt Frank? If so, when? I believe there is a typo, in regards to the Reese name. John Wesley Rose buried here. Is this where Frank got his middle name? This would make three generations of the Rose Family buried in Montana.
Edward Haney Rose is the grandfather of Ida Rose, and father of John Wesley Rose.
To be born by a mother born Rosemary Rosamond, who named me John, not knowing her great grandfather was named John Rose, is a genealogical wonder. I will be recording my findings with the Rose Family Association.
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