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• A Night of Black and a Day of Deserts
  by Jessica Tremp

  your face makes me wish I could punch it

• The Flat lands
  by Ushna Sardar

  *we strayed a few blocks in the wrong direction and became hopelessly lost / the time spoke in a brusque tone / do we got the drift of what…

• The Deal
  by Robert Knapman

  I met a withered desert man / Who asked me for my hardened soul

• WHEN THE HURRICANE HIT THE DESERT
  by Dayonda

  —he found his wife with potato in one hand, peeler in the other, ... His two kids were crying their eyes out… As soon as the storm sw…

  As he watched his mobile home roof, then the walls come away, he had only one thought in his mind, and it wasn’t for his family’s safety and security. No, he had a greater love. . . / =Featured in BITS & PIECES June 8 2008=

• I take You
  by Robert Knapman

  I honour the taking of salty grains of you / Its dry lake outback crunch, drought barren coastal grit, Sodomite sting

• MY KING
  by linaji

  I was with him in the desert, / I was 12 / He was ageless / Me and my mother traveled with him / We were fighting once again, / The tribes fou…

  This is an inspired piece from the works of Ibrahim Al-Neaimi I feel so much for this piece as I have had my time in the desert and learned to love it and sometimes despise it.. I feel this man is a King and in a way the desert that is my heart needs a guardian that is wise and strong and cool as a cucumber..Oh and funny too.. I want to begin a book with him as my central character and it is in my top 3 to be completed as the spirit guides me..

• Desert Rain
  by digitalmidge

  The sky is black and purple, and the stars will not try to reappear. / Flashes of light split the sky wide open to its glittering, watery …

  Another one from my published anthology “The Anonymity of Rain.”

• Andy Reeve's Excellent Arizonian Adventure
  by AndyReeve

  However, the regression to one of my past lives was quickly over. I was back in the bus, in floods of tears, with one thought going throu…

  My trip to Arizona which had some painful spiritual repercussions

• NOMAD
  by VisionaryImagist

  There is great freedom in detachment. When I chose to allow something to bind me to it I become it’s prisoner. I have often marveled at t…

  AFTER READING MY TEXT VISIT MY ART AND SEE THE OIL PAINTING WHICH INSPIRED THESE WORDS

• AT IT AGAIN!!!
  by AQUALINA

  I spent the day killing caterpillars in the garden again…I let them grow just so I can squish them… It is one of my favorite pass tim…

  Sometimes I think I really do need to get out more…lol

• YES, MASTER
  by Sally Omar

  YES, MASTER / Thank you for letting me sit for a while / We have walked many miles / I am tired and I have a heavy load / Travelling so far o…

  Thank you Al for Yes, Master…I loved this photo and it inspired my poem Please check out my friend Al Neaimi’s other awesome artwork on the RB /

• Circling Shadows
  by Talkingwatermelon

  At one point, when lucidity was as slippery as memory, my foot struck stone.

  I’ve had a love affair with the ocean for as long as I can remember.

• P A S S I O N
  by Robert Knapman

  BREATH A word / Naked and strong / Brushed in his ear / Like a hold up / Skin on skin He shook / And held suddenly to his sanity / Whil…

• Reach Her with Your Heart
  by Scott Ruhs

  Like a desert rose real love is rare

• August 1997
  by pinkstinks

  Reflections of the desert / finding a lost nostalgia / understanding what it means to be Australian / falling in love again / the highway the…

• The Sands Of Time....2/6/72
  by robert murray

  He lived like a hermit lives in a shack / Trying to beat the shifting sands

  about a lonely man trying to make a living in the outback of Australia

• Gold Fever
  by robert murray

  They came from far away to search across our land / Those tough old miners from across the sea / They found the yellow metal where none had…

  This is about the first prospectors to travel the outback of Australia

• Yellow Golden Dreams A song I wrote 9/9/92
  by robert murray

  The fever that we share with the men so long ago / When they battled through the searing heat and dust / We travel in our cars with caravan…

  about the way we travel the outback compared to the old timers

• Seduction of Sand Dancing
  by adgray

  It is like crossing the belly of the earth / It seduces you to stroke it’s silken curves / Lay the palm of your hand on the gentile flat

  A bubbler I have been watching for ages now posted this work and I was seduced into this poem :O) / Please take a look at the amazing art of oastudios Enjoy! :O)

• Elements Of Life
  by Stephen J. Vattimo

  But only those who stretch toward Him / Will grow and produce much fruit

• Coachella
  by Erin Jay

  I sink my feet into the sand of my home / grains rubbing against my surgery scar / and my ankles are always the part that starts sweating f…

  The Coachella Valley sits on the edge of the Mojave Desert in California, and I’ve lived here most of my life. It’s… difficult to describe.

• A Desert Kiss
  by Snoboardnlife

  It all happened so long ago, very few still tell the tale. A Tale much like a fairytale. A Girl, Skin so Pale. A Man, Very much a male.

  Yeah I can get sappy! LOL Please leave a comment giving your opinion, good or bad. This is quite different from some of the other stuff I write. I was quite impressed with it myself and the funny thing is…...... It only took me maybe thirty minutes to write, where most others take a few days.

• A SONG FOR SUMMER
  by Stephen Jackson

  Spare me the yellow loneliness / Of scorched afternoons, that gape like private deserts. / Spare me my skull, swathed in a sulphur dazzle / ...

  You can’t get it right for Depressives. In the winter, they crave sunlight. In the summer, they cower away from whatever might overload their senses.

• Haze clouding the path home
  by cheridan

  A list of divinities and beautiful things.

  A list of divinities and beautiful things:- / will cause lashes to flutter; make angels sprout wings.