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Burning Bell

...We lay flowers on the grave
never gave them to the living
we put them in fancy vases
when we finally say I love you
a sundial whispers -it's too late 

You think you've mastered forever
'til f...

Categories: mojave desert, death, life,
Form: Rhyme

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....

Categories: mojave desert, environment,
Form: Free verse

Super Bloom Hs

...super bloom

fall rains soak deserts
 spring hills wear capes of bluebells ~
  baby-blue-eyes quilts

poppy crucible
 canyons cradle blue lupine ~
  flowers paint deserts

golden sunflowers...

Categories: mojave desert, flower, miracle, spring,
Form: Other

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Sadness of a Child

...Youthful dreams cascaded through lavender fields.
They rushed with a desire to be free from sorrow-
For I was but a forsaken child, renown to be alone,
and I wished for time to stop so I could...

Categories: mojave desert, abuse, childhood,
Form: Free verse

Solar Eclipse:Soul Sauce

...
A full total solar eclipse occurred on July 2, 2019,
In only Chile and Argentina.
I was informed about it and told my scoffing, daughter dear:
"There is something destructive that will result...

Categories: mojave desert, earth, fear, moon, mystery,
Form: Rhyme

I Wander the Desert Alone

...Aimlessly I meander in expansive barren-landscape
Whipped by the assault of rustling windy gales
Embossing sandy designs resembling ocean waves
Simulating pools of water in mirage of seascapes.

...

Categories: mojave desert, imagery, metaphor, nature, onomatopoeia,
Form: Free verse

Mojave Token

...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… Moja...

Categories: mojave desert, appreciation, beauty, meaningful, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Streamers

...Steamers
Streamers the term that they give to a bird
The story of which you might never have heard
In the Mojave Desert, there’s a large solar plant
Three hundred thousand mirrors fixed to the su...

Categories: mojave desert, bird, environment, sun,
Form: Rhyme

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...

Categories: mojave desert, angel, art, autumn,
Form: I do not know?

If I Could Reach Across the Miles

...If I could reach across the miles 
I’d be reborn with just your smile
Looking straight into my path
Finding you alone at last.

In our secret place of rendezvous
Where time and space are old and new
...

Categories: mojave desert, friendship, old, old,
Form: Quatrain

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 ...

Categories: mojave desert, son, song-lyricold, sweet, old,
Form: Ballad

Whats Cooking

...mojave desert
one hundred and one in shade
can cook egg on rock...

Categories: mojave desert, funny, history, imagination, native
Form: Haiku

Desert Pavement

...I am new lava flow
covered in dense sand,
the Mojave Desert of the soul.
I am the arid places,
the barren areas,
the well packed pebbles
too tight for seeds.
And in rare events,
when rain rel...

Categories: mojave desert, angst, hope, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Free verse