incessant buzzing
distant blur heat waves rising
cracked lips croak, “water”.
Categories:
mojave, summer, sun,
Form: Haiku
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.
Categories:
mojave, environment,
Form: Free verse
A white wash of striated clouds
stretch expansively
across the arid desert sky
where Joshua trees commune
lifting up crooked cactus-like arms
towards the searing sun.
Massive layers of brown boulders
jut, forming endless sculptures
hidden places where the ancients
made their penitence with words
swept away by unforgiving winds.
Shadows shift under the arc of the sun
where nervous roadrunners dart
startled lizards seek shade
great hawks circle with outstretched wings
and tortoises amble as the hours crawl by.
Two lane highways trail into the horizon
toward snow capped mountain peaks
lined by nameless telephone poles
and tumbleweeds that roll aimlessly
across storefronts and sleepy
rundown towns in disrepair.
Yet the mystique of the Mojave plains
still remains an inviting oasis
of refreshment and contemplation
where time stands still
beneath the stillness
of the midnight stars.
12/5/2022
Categories:
mojave, earth, nature,
Form: Free verse
my first trip to Nevada
drove a car out of town
destination Avi in the Mojave
just the sound of it was music to my ears
I remembered a movie I loved
and that’s where it was set
Mojave… Mojave…
sign showing powwow underway
what incredible luck
the car had barely stopped
I was out and gone
drawn by the drumming afar
making my way through the sand
part way there at my feet
as if beckoning
just there like an offering
a big sandwashed oval stone
perfectly soft
breathtakingly beautiful
incredibly… there waiting for me
nothing like it anywhere in sight
nothing anywhere
bar drumming in the distance
and this one lone treasure
so I picked it
like a lovely ripe fruit
fresh from the Mojave desert
AP: 2nd place, Honorable Mention 2021
Submitted on April 8, 2018 for contest BRING TO LIFE sponsored by SHADOW HAMILTON
Categories:
mojave, appreciation, beauty, meaningful, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Cradled in her mother’s starving belly
Spawn of a fruitless tree in Death Valley
With only hunger pangs to worship
A step in any direction would be hardship
Nourishing daily on the harshest inferno
There isn’t a gruelling day she’s never known
Her mother’s tears of sorrow vaporise
Long before they can leave her blind eyes
She’s a thirst in a drought of beauty
A wind-chill through the gates of hell
The warm release of the coldness of death
She is, against all odds, life on earth
Through the thin skin of her flames
Her burning desire to feel a warm embrace
She dries at night with the rise of the moon
And regains life with every breath of each noon
Categories:
mojave, child, father,
Form: Rhyme
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 betwixt both
Spirit be flesh blood from Ancient rivers, yet known ? Imagination, perhaps twas lore ?
Waiting for Grandeur's latter rains; as holocaustic phenomenons ? Time's poignant..
Poetic justice; still, love's hummingbird a portent, sifting dreams; discerned, their nectars.
Categories:
mojave, angel, art, autumn,
Form: I do not know?
Her touch the warmed delicate Mojave breeze
Whispering love through dulcet Agave blooms
Her bronze skin a perfection of the desert spirit
A hot gossamer breath that intoxicates my soul
Lost in her embrace of the balmy deserts nights
Drawing me to the comfort of a fiery paradise
Her lips rapture angelic chords of the high mesa
Singing in the deep and arid tones of the badlands
Her passions fuel the rustling of sagebrush winds
Filling the great valley with her adoring essence
I abandon my senses in the promises of the sand
Adoring this mistress of beauty called...
Mojave
Categories:
mojave, happiness, inspirational, life, love,
Form: Epyllion