Paint A Desert Shifting Timeless Portrait Poem by Terence George Craddock

the desert
the desert
has no roads
only destinations

as many destinations
as there are grains
of sand in the hands
of time drift shadows

shadows shape shade past lives
shadows whisper sand sings
whisper wind grain sands
sparkle dark sky sea desert stars

sail ships shadows of dawn sunset desert
silent over sand dunes stately time walks
sea wave rhythm camel legs long soft strides
eat up desert sand shimmer mirage distances

lives long rivers sand shift swept lives
flow across seamless ocean desert sands
breath stars cross circle map life sky journeys
burn bright ethereal flame passion life stars

still desert sands map past lives
star light maps moon ebb flow night lives
write ink finger nail sun dawn maps
write ink finger nail sun dusk maps

the desert sand is a mistress of time
a child is a sown seed of organic survivals
a wife is birth mother of gene opportunities
breath of life blood whispers mist time


Terence George Craddock (Afterglows Echoes Of Starlight)
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