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Across expanses far and flat The freezing wind doth howl, Through desolation cold and harsh No sign of beast nor fowl. No feet have trod these arid lands No eyes have sought a path, No heart has longed to venture here No settler built a hearth. Far horizons curve the flatness Cold stars spray the sky, Freezing diamonds in the blackness Crescent moon hangs high. Sleet and snow and driving rain Assault in winter’s bleak, Whilst blazing sun and baking wind Prevail in summers fleet. Grasses blow in rolling waves As far as sight can see, And cobalt skies of burnished blue Are cloud and eagle free. Sand grains blowing, heaping, rolling Dusty dunes do form, Moving west in steady flow Sand waves without a storm. Silent, silent, shrill and silent Wind’s persistant howl Shreiking in the rolling grass No trace of beast nor fowl. Far horizons defy logic Something in the dark, Huge and vague a shadowed something Ghosts from Ancients hark. Marshalg @theGate Mangere Bridge 4 May 2009
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Jan 8, 2010
Jan 8, 2010 at 12:13 PM UTC
Arid Lands
Across expanses far and flat The freezing wind doth howl, Through desolation cold and harsh No sign of beast nor fowl. No feet have trod these arid lands No eyes have sought a path, No heart has longed to venture here No settler built a hearth. Far horizons curve the flatness Cold stars spray the sky, Freezing diamonds in the blackness Crescent moon hangs high. Sleet and snow and driving rain Assault in winter’s bleak, Whilst blazing sun and baking wind Prevail in summers fleet. Grasses blow in rolling waves As far as sight can see, And cobalt skies of burnished blue Are cloud and eagle free. Sand grains blowing, heaping, rolling Dusty dunes do form, Moving west in steady flow Sand waves without a storm. Silent, silent, shrill and silent Wind’s persistant howl Shreiking in the rolling grass No trace of beast nor fowl. Far horizons defy logic Something in the dark, Huge and vague a shadowed something Ghosts from Ancients hark. Marshalg @theGate Mangere Bridge 4 May 2009
- From Watching the Ripples Radiate
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81/M/Australian
Jan 8, 2010
Jan 8, 2010 at 12:13 PM UTC
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