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Best Mojave Desert Poems


The Queen of the Mojave Desert
The old man lived out by the desert, selling postcards and gasoline,
He sold road-maps and Navajo silver, and True West magazine.

And under his Gabby Hays beard beat the heart of a dashing young man;
With arthritic fingers he cleaned off my windshield…he once was a Dapper...

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© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mojave desert, son, song-lyricold, sweet, old,
Form: Ballad
His Soprano's Mojave Desert
Psalm sixty-nine pondering what should have been, for their welfare....
Fell unto a curse ? The seventh sign, if there were such and these my eyes
Colouratura, such sight they shall find ? Connecting dots while crossing 
These lines parallel, her world a scripture binds; this collaboration...

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Categories: mojave desert, angel, art, autumn,
Form:
Mojave Desert
Miles and miles of nothing, sparsely vegetated
with Joshua trees, desert wildflowers,
ocotillo cactus.
Not much to look at, but
plenty of it to see....

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© Mike Lef  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mojave desert, environment,
Form: Free verse

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