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Las Vegas, View from the airport

Elizabeth Santos
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-11-08

Posts 9269
Pennsylvania

0 posted 2000-06-21 08:48 AM

Las Vegas

Land of sandy desert heat
Dusty roads and mountain peak
Browns and grays and sun-scorched eyes
Til neon blazes nighttime skies

The landscape brown and gray and stark
Becomes a huge amusement park
Where money flows like rapid streams
Of non-existing water dreams

Please take me back to land of green
First, lead me to a slot machine

Elizabeth Santos

Lost Dreamer
Member Elite

since 1999-06-20

Posts 2464
Somewhere near the Rainbow

1 posted 2000-06-21 12:21 PM

Elizabeth, This is excellent, I love it and the ending made a big grin appear on my face.

Poet deVine

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

2 posted 2000-06-21 04:00 PM

Funny!! I've landed here also and it's like an alien world in the middle of the desert! Cute poem...

Denise

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

3 posted 2000-06-21 09:09 PM

Very cute and lighthearted!

Denise

kelieth
Member

since 2000-06-12

Posts 314
Normal IL - USA

4 posted 2000-06-22 02:49 AM

LOL

I loved this description. Being from the south east of TX and living most my life in one desert or another you made me a tad homesick with a cute ending.

Great Job.

Kevin

"Anything is possible with patience, time is the tool use it to reach your goals."

Ethan Halo
Senior Member

since 2000-04-28

Posts 793
on the roof again

5 posted 2000-06-22 03:23 AM

sadly, this is only the vegas the passers-by see. i live in vegas, and it's gilded newness wears off so quick. well, if you're under 21. =) great poem. you've captured the luster of this city very well. i am honored to live here in your poem.

We all got somethin' we need to atone for.

deleeme
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 1766
NEW ENGLAND, USA

6 posted 2000-06-22 05:01 AM

Liz your humor is intact--but is your pocketbook? Good one--David

"GOD GIVES- but man must open his hand." (German Proverb)

Elizabeth Santos
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-11-08

Posts 9269
Pennsylvania

7 posted 2000-06-22 08:15 AM

Thank you for your comments to this poem on a fascinating city
Liz

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