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            The Desert Has a Voice (James Watkins)

The desert has a voice that calls
 In dry, dirt dreams-
Warm, wind-washed wonders
In wingless, soulless flight.

Cold, moonlit masquerades
Through long level years,
Crying out with countless cares 
And deafened ears in shifting sandy heights.

Quietly, calmly calling-
Darkened, deepening desert-
Star-filled with stumbling stalkers
And wounded warriors in fevered nights.

Dreams-peaceful, persistent, dreams-
As wheeled sky turns
Eternal turning, evening eyes-
And thoughts of morning colored light. 
                
The desert has a voice                                                                                                                        
And every grain of sand has a name-
Every wind-blown grain of sand.
And someone-somewhere-knows the names.

They have perfect place and purpose-
Rocks cry out! Rocks…. sing!
Some soaring angelic scribe somewhere
Records the history of rocks, and sands, and deserts.

The desert has voice and future-
With lifted hill, high green valley
And clear bright stream winding
To cool, crystalline sea.

They wait…. silently…
Almost… forever waiting-
But I know the secret of deserts-
And –
Dreams.

James Watkins-April 2006
   

Taken on: February 19, 2024

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