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Desert
Contributed by
benny
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Wednesday, 24th March 2004 @ 05:41:26 PM in AEST
Topic:
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Desert
Solitary and confined,
Yet enormous, undefined
Years of disrespect from clouds,
Has left the desert full of ire,
Has left frustration and appal,
Allaying rain, it does desire.
Being cheated by elixir,
Has left all life with arduous times,
It asks the rain and hail, to subvene,
Though not avouch their murd'rous crimes.
But it manages to maintain prohibity,
In the face of certain death,
It bides its time, patiently,
Ever gaining length and depth.
Until suddenly, the vast hot sky,
Turns a darkened shade of black,
And years after its disappearance,
The elixir of life is back.
With terrifying might and fury,
The rage rectifies its debt,
Desert nourishing, replenishing,
Steals, soaks itself, with all that it can get.
The moody rage moves on away,
Floodplains stay to testify existence,
The rainstorms soul trustworthy witness,
The desert stirs but offers no resistance.
Flood currents wash atop the clay,
Eaten by unrelenting heat,
They shrivel up, into shallows,
Leaving only a thin life-giving sheet.
The once baron red and yellow sand,
Now wet, gratefully accepts animals and birds,
It does not try to shoo the buffalo,
That are drinking by the herds.
But with a final hyperventilation,
It breathes in all that is left to drink,
Preparing for cloud isolation,
Allowing elixir, life to sink.
Then once again, baron, dry, desolate,
It hurriedly slips back to hibernation,
Preparing for the times to come,
In which to soak up life sensation.
Benjamin Roe
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benny
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2004-03-24 17:41:26]
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Re: Desert
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by ladyfawn on
Tuesday, 30th March 2004 @ 12:25:15 PM AEST
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| nice style, great write, warm welcome to ypdc:) hugs n' love nessa |
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