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Justin S Wampler Aug 2014
My words, devoid of meaning, are
scratches in the absence of creation, are
tides influencing the oceans of existence
to wash away the footsteps of
yesterday's misguided directions,
to drown out the deafening silences
with the sound of crashing cascades.
Katzenberg Jul 2014
Inches below the surface, I can feel the sun just ahead, threating my lost consciousness and tearing my body apart.

The incandescent light pierces the ground, the mountains scream fire upon the sky, crackles in the ground appear beneath my feet. What a pitiful anxiety made of sand!

My body stretches, incoming dehydration, thirst and isolation; motherly desert, fatherly wastelands...

Let me burn down to ashes and ******* to the wind.
Make me feel uncomfortable and let me disappear in peace.

I can feel the drought claiming my pain, gathering the dust that used to be my skin and remain in solitude, just like a snail then I find myself stuck in the nonchalant rage of the day.

There is nothing alive, there is just an infinite ruin of land, dead soil and dying lives turn into stone by act of time.
L Jun 2014
I know there will come a time where the only moisture will run out, and the ground will crack and crumble

And we will have to leave from this eternal drought- in this land many have called home

In two or two-hundred years- would we still have the one thing to nourish our bodies and repair the crusted soil?
ZWS Jun 2014
I love you, but I hate not being independent
I feel stuck with you when you're gone
And free when you're here
But you'll be back baby, the school years almost here
There's nothing to fear darling, we're in this together dear

I'm trying to sing my heart out, but the notes sound a bit confused
It sounds like my past, because my heart's been a bit bruised
Good thing about those bruises is they faded, I'll never forget though, that's how we learn darling, though
Sometimes this summer can feel a little jaded
When I'm trying to act like I'm fine, I could tell you I'm becoming a bit chraraded
Taking who I am, taking it, and grenading it

It's all part of falling, your adrenalines up here, and the winds blowing through your hair, just hold on, don't ever hit the ground
Even when you're feeling a bit confounded
All the memories around you are surrounding, ghosts around you shrouding
Just take them to the grave, you're brave dear, don't let it be crowding near

We'll be alright at the end of this summertime drought
So don't you pout, cause the clouds may look a bit dark now but the new season will bring rain and reason
The way you feel, don't deem it as treason, it's easy to drift, just lift your chin up, girl, endure the season, with me.
Ryder Rose Apr 2014
My rich ****** soil desperately lingered, ached, and yearned during the
melancholy hours  of the night, patiently  waiting to be kissed by the
incandescent  of your aura,  And as  spring  approached  sapphire,
crimson  and gold  gleamed onto me with all of it’s resplendent
glory, I  was  touched universally  by the  sincerity  of  your
luscious  seeds  as  they  settled  infi­nitely  within  me,

I was torn apart as your roots spread through my
body, igniting all of my senses, With pure satisfaction I
blossomed reds  lavenders  and blues, And  if your seeds were
to be blown to another garden, my flowers would no longer breathe
in  hope,  for  all  possibilities  of   cultivation  would  be  diminished,
Yet you  still  drizzled  light  showers  of promises  that  kept  me  alive,

And soaking me with faith they said;

You’ll always be the only one I want

And how somber it is that I was naïve and beyond deceived
by you, and when you left I began to rip up all of the flowers you
planted within my body, hoping to destroy every lasting piece
of you remaining

And although you can no longer can see all of the vibrant colors that
Seeped of your love and affection,
Your roots will forever remain
Eternally Embedded deep
inside of me, never letting me forget you

Because after tasting your love dear;
I know that I’ll be starving for the rest of my life

Because it has been 2,291 days since you left the meadow

And I’ve been in a drought since

*B.K
Marion Clarke Apr 2014
Paper thin top soil
Cracks seep through
Red dirt.
Bloodless gashes
Simmering summer soil
Baked turf.
Rolled gold haze
Aches as the
Country stretches its skin-
Near breaks
******* teeth
******* itches
Red earth fit-
              To burst in a
Dark cloud of dust,
Choking soft as to soak
The moisture fresh
From your lungs.

Blinding blue sky
Set for worship
On a tall horizon
Too far, too high
For common souls-
                  To float on a      
Breath of sweet dry air,
Eternal journey to sunset
Small piece of a dream
To chase a grey cloud
From sky to west.

Where subterranean
Creeks used to slip by
Rise in a ***** of land
Where water once carved
                          Its roam
Now the winds sweep
All traces away
Back toward the sea,
And fair beyond
The aching dry eyes
Of the sons of
This red earth,
A mist lies awake
And prays for rain.

— The End —