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Alicat
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0 posted 2000-08-26 05:36 PM


Well, de Vine, I took your suggestion and tried my hand at it...not too happy with how it came out, but here it is.

The sadistic sun beat mercilessly the sand.
Thermals rising in protest,
Stirring the scorching soil.
Convection breezes stir grains
Sending spirals and spins,
Picking up speed and sand,
Feeding voraciously off the rising heat:
A horizontal avalanche of dirty sand
Rising like Babel to usurp the sun,
Churning, writhing, a wall of pain
Scything scree, stripping shrubs,
God's bead-blaster taking
Flecks of paint from cowering cars,
A blinding wall of power
Filling our world
From East to West.
A saguaro snaps
On the TV screen
Before the power fails;
And as windows sing and shudder
I understand what they said,
'Sometimes, Nature is a Mutha.'


Alicat

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1 posted 2000-08-26 06:55 PM


AliCat~
This is wonderful !
Gave me pause for thought -
and wrapped it up with a smile !

I like it !
~*Marge*~


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WhtDove
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2 posted 2000-08-26 10:06 PM


I don't know why you're not happy with it, I am    

Marvelous!

Poet deVine
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Hurricane Alley
3 posted 2000-08-26 11:29 PM


It's good!! But you haven't conveyed the sting of the sand in your eyes when the wind blows a dust storm into town! LOL I liked it..and we escaped another storm tonight!
CocoBaci
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4 posted 2000-08-27 02:13 AM


Alicat ... I enjoyed reading this   thank's for sharing!

Coco

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