Best Saguaro Poems

Although flowers bloom it’s awkward to say that they are flowers
because they are not flowers, but thorns disguised as yellow pistils 
and stamens surrounded by...

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Saguaro cacti rise up like mighty sentinels 
boldly claiming the high desert plains
tall and proud, their prickly arms
forewarn intruders to stop and beware.
 
A daunting...

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You have permission to use these poems of mine on your terrific sight if you wish, from a series of Desert Poems I have written....

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There is an awe in the soul 
When travelling across the desert’s night.
Silence except for the rhythmic roll,
Signs that light and go dark with the...

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Our snowmen, they're not made of white.
They're tumbleweeds, rolled up tight.
No top hat upon his head,
a cowboy hat sits there instead.
His face and buttons, tree...

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I've seen the Rocky Mountains
From Alberta to New Mexico
Heavenly reaching cathedrals
Rock walls like stained glass windows
Death Valley's crystalline sands
Sparkle like moonlit seas
Red orange cactus roses
Saguaro...

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Petrified forest
the grandest canyon of all
Monument valley

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dancing mesquite trees
arid breeze through sage and sand
Saguaro just pose

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wolves howl at the moon
pack of coyotes scream and cry
beep...

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WHO IS YOUR NEIGHBOR

Forty feet high and circumference of six feet, my neighbor is a massive Saguaro cactus 
It can be a source of sorrow...

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Here I stand in this godforsaken corner
under a forgotten, sun scorched land
beneath an expansive, desert sky.

I squint in the melting sun at high noon
my proud,...

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The Grand Canyon is like the brain
with deep, unexplored fissures and tributaries, 
the main route well known by now.

I am walking, walking inside my mind,...

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Lamp posts eyes
through cracks 
of curtains 
spying
sewing needles
through mine
uninvited
screeching tires
honking horns
sirens
plucking mind’s guitar
unstop.
Take me to the Sonoran
steal into a hut
while its inhabitant 
hunts
fall asleep in...

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The “Saga” of the Lonely Cactus 

by Miriam McCue


Introduction:
:
Characters in order of appearance:

Lonely Cactus: He is a  6 foot Saguaro cactus with two arms...

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Earth, builder of beauty;
her plumb line: a still point,
precious center, damp
minerals.

What I’m composing are
my words: a swathe of heat,
painted deserts, morning musk,
saguaro green.

Upon my lips,...

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Desert Beauty

Giant Saguaro
Inch by inch, as her years passed,
The Sonora bloomed

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
February 11, 2008....

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As I look out upon the desert floor, its beauty I espy.
A lizard awaits the sun to land for its’ sunning to apply.
A mother quail...

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