Ridden Hard, Put Up Wet
...Ridden Hard, Put Up Wet
Worn down landscape
Ridden hard and put up wet over eons of time.
Buttes interspersed with ravines and wadis,
Vast irregular symmetry.
Clumps of purple blue green s...
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Categories:
wadis, summer,
Form: Free verse
Bedouin
...Beyond a sandstorm’s gritty veil,
A solitary Bedouin,
Like a ghost in a sea of dunes,
Rides slowly along in the dusk.
The singing of rababah strings
Mimic the cooling ev...
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Categories:
wadis, change, destiny, freedom, journey,
Form: Free verse
Sands of Shaybah
...From a big 737's porthole looking down
upon rows of endless, barren mountains,
from the clouds to the wadis I descend
unto thy waiting arms among the dunes.
Far in the middle of a vast wastel...
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Categories:
wadis, adventure, placesbeauty, beauty,
Form: Personification