Sunsets in Saharan skies
Every nomad looks and sighs
Reprieved from unrelenting heat
Peruse the sun in its retreat
Every desert roamer knows
Nights with cool sand twixt their toes
Their utmost fear at the oasis?
Serpents lurk in nighttime places
So the creatures of the night
Creatures that emerge and bite
Only fear the bedouin
Replete with pots to cook them in
Pincers and a stinging tail
Indiana Jones might wail
Only serpents chill him more
Night time creatures by the score
Scurry over moonlit land
And sting the foolish barefoot man
Nomads snare this living lunch
Dine on scorpion crispy crunch
Once scorpions and serpents prowl
Whence the Pharaoh Eagle Owl
Looms so silent in the gloom
Serpents and scorpions meet their doom
Categories:
unsets, africa,
Form: Acrostic
Kindred souls we were and always will be
Entangled between reality and eternity
Everlasting devotion beyond earthly adieu
Parting only briefly till our next rendez-vous
Sunsets providing us a gateway into infinity
Across divine dimensions etched into memory
Know how much I adore and watch over you
Every time you hold this locket, think of me
AP: Honorable Mention 2022
Submitted on December 1, 2017 for contest ANY POEM WON IN A CONTEST IN NOVEMBER sponsored by LAURA LOO - RANKED 3RD
and on October 11, 2017 for contest RHYME BATTLE IX sponsored by JULI-MICHELLE - RANKED 4TH
Categories:
unsets, lost love, missing you,
Form: Acrostic