John Lawless Poet Free verse

Love's Desert

Love’s Desert


You left me there, alone, empty,
baked in the seething heat of hate.
Dried petals screaming: “I love you not!”
blowing across a soundless nothingness,
faint echoes of a whimpering heartbeat
fading in the shifting dunes,
crushed beneath the beauty of love’s barrenness.
Alone, under the lifeless light of desert moon
I weep, my future a wavering mirage.


John G. Lawless
In The Desert – nette onclaud 
9/14/2014

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Maurice Yvonne September 16, 2014 at 5:05 PM Great take on the contest. I hope you rate high.

Andrea Dietrich September 14, 2014 at 11:15 PM wow, I love how you used the barrenness of a desert as the backdrop for this ill fated love. WELL DONE.

Robert Lindley September 14, 2014 at 9:38 AM This is very good... Free verse has to be very good like this for me to take notice being that I primarily write in rhyme. This is one fine write and I wish you great luck in the contest!!