Short Sahara Poems

If these seas not?
Sahara is a dot!...

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born of a rock dome
The Eye of the Sahara
magma-unknown form...

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Saharan dust 
gold round the lake’s edge
squirrels make merry...

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Violent
indigo sky
venting your anger
Blood rain lashing and
beating...

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Breath of Sahara
Sweeping through the southern creeks
Touch of nature's warmth...

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slithering sizzle
stalks scorching Sahara sands
sidewinders dancing


John G. Lawless
5/24/2016...

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Like a small chionophile
Trapped in the Sahara Desert
Onisms of despair flood awhile ...

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Earth is like a sheet of paper,

A4 size,

Deserts on Earth like zeros written on the paper,

Sahara in large fonts,

In small others!...

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Sacred oven like heat
A place where mirages thrive
Desert winds bloom high
Dreaming of rainfall, I pray
Tic Toc, that rain will quench

By Susan Mills...

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Oil  and reach minerals
Reign in dictatorship
Fight with a  group of gang
Dress in sahara  reverse   its  winds
Interest  in  reign  call all  be in peace...

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Head is like a piece of land,

Long and short hairs,bushes and trees,

Black hairs,dark and deep,

White,light and leap,

No hairs,bald like Sahara keep!...

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succulent slender grass
sprouting from moist soil
morning Sun slowly rises
as gazelles run
across the Sahara plains


(This piece was published in Tanka Journal)...

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Poor man who thinks
         real ample he is, so in vain
         in front of Everest,
         is simple dwarf,
         in Sahara desert
         a tiny grain... !...

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Happy birthday, dear Romina, 
Arid land has a warm climate; 
In the desert of Sahara, 
The surrounding is so quiet. 

Topic: Birthday of Romina G. Espinosa (March 22)...

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I was sent to the Sahara to find the best cactus
All I had to do was mark it
Someone else would remove it
Bringing it to the sound stage
Or the arboretum or wherever it was needed...

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Can't think of a more inhospitable place
The Sahara Desert has such a barren landscape
Yet people exist
Continue to subsist
It boggles the mind how it's a livable space...

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Pink Sahara in the sky;
clouds are dunes of sand.
I am watching shadows play
right into my hand.

Farewell, light of day.
Sky, a painted desert rose,
slowly fades away...

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The moors seduced
The Sahara Desert Mountains
Mastered the Mediterranean Sea
Keepers of the flame
Custodian of Egyptian knowledge
Their horses made of moonlight
The world shall never be the same...

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Let us move to a land where only flowers are cultivated,
gardens throughout the year remain full of flowers;
there men satisfy their hunger only on perfume
and satisfy their thirst of Sahara-soul in beauty....

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As Time Goes By 

Each grain of sand 
On the waste of Sahara
Is a word spoken
A lover´s whisper
A story told and 
A song sung.
And now lizards and
Snakes burrow under 
The sand to
Escape the fierce sun....

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Thrust a dagger into my heart
Thresh me with a flail
Lay me on a bed of thorns
Give me a chalice of hemlock
Burn me on a funeral pyre
Banish me to the Sahara...
And I will only smile,
Because I am in love!...

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Time in her daily hurry,
if she were a teen-age girl,
studying biology in college,
would make a poor fiancé.

Without virtue of patience
and values of courtship
she would be Sahara desert
with only one public oasis...

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Power of the Tongue

The tongue we know not
Is a good receptionist
But a poor postmaster
Though cold and wet
Full of fire and smoke it is
It sets ablaze the Savanna,
Forests and the Sahara
It destroys love-birds’ nests
And all is ashes...

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Socha tha tu hamara hoga...
dubte tinke ko jaise sahara hoga...

Socha tha ab nahe hoge tanhai se rubaru...
socha tha hoge fr nai zindagi shuru...

Lekin bhul gaye the kaha aati h khusiyaan hame raas... bus kevel tanhai hai aur rahege hamare pass......

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The Sahara is another vast sea
   Of zero-edge horizons
And remote hours of austerity
   For "sailors" upon caravans

And the Sun beams mercilessly
   And seems cruel to patrons
Until the Wind scoffs haggardly
   And reshapes its art of dunes....

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