Shifting Sands of Solitude

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Open Poetry #38

Shifting Sands of Solitude

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

0 posted 2006-05-23 10:25 PM

Stark, the sun cooking basted soils
where wandering tracks stumble
and fall among the clutching sands.

A mirage, over the next dune
where an oasis of cracked earth awaits
the swollen tongue. Oh, but to have
the water’s rivulets streaming down
upon a dust covered face as red hopeless
haunting eyes caress the skies and
await the desert’s cries as night comes
to a shifting dune and the shivering cold
shudders the spine.

Cast the die, touch the shortest straw
and listen to God’s breath, covering a
land where tombs lie buried, awaiting some
merciless thief’s greed plunder the sanctity of
the labors of a thousand whose corpses
rest against cracked stones and a river
flows beneath the land into a place of
eternal life..as death stands ominously
beside.

SEA

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Member Seraphic

since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

1 posted 2006-05-23 10:56 PM

truly love how you painted this...

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

2 posted 2006-05-24 07:01 AM

amazing...simply stunning write, took me in, and held me there...Magnus, your a wonderful poet, with such an awareness that glows...

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

3 posted 2006-05-24 09:40 AM

Barry

"and a river
flows beneath the land into a place of
eternal life..as death stands ominously
beside."

It does indeed! Another amazing write!

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

4 posted 2006-05-24 09:44 AM

wow

StevenS
Senior Member

since 2005-09-21

Posts 945
L. A. (Lower Alabama)

5 posted 2006-05-24 11:40 AM

Enjoyed Magnus, the Apache?

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

6 posted 2006-05-25 04:25 PM

You had me scrabbling for the next word all the way through. If the world had been coming to an end, I would have finished reading your poem before I did whatever one does when the world comes to an end!

- Owl

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