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Calm Desert Tempest

July 22, 2014
By esthercurly PLATINUM, DPO, Other
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esthercurly PLATINUM, DPO, Other
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"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." –George R.R. Martin

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The sun rests in a cloudless sky
Overlooking the mountain's shoulder.
Lilac petals die of thirst.

Marble is power, hard, unforgiving,
But gradually, boulders tumble to their slippery end,
Becoming sand.

At night, the wind whispers through the crevasses.
My only view is that of the barren sea.

My eyelids are coated with dust.

© Andrew S., Milford, CT

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Product of poetry exercise with my inspirational aunt.
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