Tag: desert

Smooth ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #331

Smooth gravel
Through sparse country
Makes me happy

This ominous sky
This cataclysm of cloud
Sinister storm
Unleashed on a landscape
Unapologetically lethal

The exquisite beauty
Of furious nature

And I
Defiant
Steadfast in the wind
Rain pelting flesh
Breathe in all that might
Make the power my own
Become the desert
And the storm

Find the darkness
In the light
And the light
In the darkness

Angry sky
Above vacant land
Allows a torrent
That never satisfies
For the land
Is always thirsty

The road takes me through
A deepening darkness
Toward a near horizon
Of fantastical colour
Receding with the sun

I depress the accelerator
Hoping at least to keep pace
But wishing to my core
That someday
I will catch up

The road takes me
Toward the golden light
Day fading into
Indigo night

The long desert drive
Doesn’t end
‘Til well after dark

So I stop before the dusk
Share with the Earth

Daylight’s final sigh

Long days
And excessive miles
On desert highways
Warp my mind

But it’s a good warp
Ripe with strange insights
As the desert strips away
All but the essential

Dusky desert sky
Offers not
A single star

So look ahead
To where the road
Is vanishing

A comet glows
Slow to grow
But soon enough
Comes streaking by

Whereupon
The night sky falls
So stars may
Come alive

In the valley
An empty basin
But for lingering salt
Where once a lake

In the sky
A saltless sea
Atmospheric bounty
Held aloft by the winds

Blacktop glimmering
Invitation to explore
Hostile enchantress

I set down the words
But do not own their meaning
Any more than I control the wind
The sun
Or the rain

I release them
Into the world
Let the prevailing winds
Take them where they may
Perhaps to find the meaning
They have for you