Tag Archives: Desert

Coyote

I wandered the empty and vast purple sage. Back leg bad shank. A coyote wheezing in the hot sun. Never a taunt a coyote he said, Looks like a lesson well learned. Droll. Jackrabbits skip across the horizon. So hungry. … Continue reading

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Robot

Vast desert. Millions, billions of sand grains. Hues of red and yellow. Wandering robot. Geological assignment. Processing in multitude shows properties, composition. Red and yellow stream through metal things. Incompatible feeling beyond numbers. But no rejection. Eight days. Night a … Continue reading

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Ten Seconds

Wandering this limitless desert. Time has lost meaning. I would have made my out. But my eyes were ten seconds behind, and the zephyr sank the path in the sand. I keep on wandering. ~~~ Image found here: http://online.nmartmuseum.org/nmhistory/art-activities/bear-lake-desert-abstraction.html NaPoWriMo … Continue reading

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Lights (Fragments)

The sun dives, the remaining clouds incinerated in dying embers, red hills flare out. In the night air wisps of violet and saffron dance over the badlands, motionless trails hang in the night tide. ~~~ Dots, specks of crimson, purple, … Continue reading

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Gaucho (Undead) (Poems)

Desert wind scarlet dust wrapped in veiled helices shrouding hills and mesas. Wraithen gaucho and sallow horse bleached white flash ashen in the red maelstrom Desert wind lays still crimson sands unmoved record phantasmal prints left by revenant rider, eidolic … Continue reading

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Desert Rider

Many have tried to replicate her and their corpses litter the desert. She lives on the desert fringes, eking out an arcane existence. Inhabiting a shack, constructed of wood and cactus scraps, which while rudimentary manages to survive the deserts … Continue reading

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Poems (Monsters, myths and pokemon)

Wandering yeti fades into snow storm. Rainbow feathers black out the sun. Silent feline haunts the hills earthquake follows. Slipping below the waves shyness grips the loch ness monster The electric mouse fearlessly competes against dragons and giants Sasquatch shuns … Continue reading

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Pumpkin (Fragment and 2 Poems)

Dark storm clouds roll over the desert stealing it away from the blue sky. Covering the desert, approaching critical mass they release their contents, which tumble through the sky to the sand below. A torrent of orange fills the air, … Continue reading

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Short Shorts (Random Sentences)

The green polar bear and the purple rhinoceros played scrabble while the multi-coloured cats re-enacted the battle of the Alamo. It hurtled through the void of space, the gingerbread man riding the rocket powered mongoose. It started off as a … Continue reading

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Forts and Towers

They lie all over the desert, in different stages of decay. Some have crumbled entirely, now nothing more than rubble. Others are on the verge of collapse, various sections already scattered in the sand. There are ones that remain mostly … Continue reading

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