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When I became a mountain

January 8, 2023January 9, 2023 Elizabeth Mathews 900 Views 4 Comments blood moon, desert, Elizabeth Mathews, evolution, remember, transformation

I remember the morning I became a mountain I dared you to climb me I dared you to blow me

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Hints of Black Rock

January 18, 2021January 26, 2021 Jamie Lee Hamann 2087 Views 4 Comments Black Rock, Black Rocks, desert, nature, Nevada, Petroglyphs

Hints of Black Rock I Extreme desolations peculiar scene a place of heritage among Black Rock like birds of stone

Free Verse Poetry

Desertscape…a wonder

July 24, 2017July 25, 2017 Tony DeLorger 3157 Views 7 Comments cacti, desert, heat, poem, sand, wonder

A wonder… Colors smeared in vacillating, rising heat, red tinged and shimmering haze, earth cracking, the azure sky, endless, melds

Poetry Rhyming Verse

The Desert Siege

June 21, 2017June 21, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1879 Views 2 Comments cool, desert, heat, night, poem, siege

Petulant the cast light of midday’s high, burned in shadows thin, and waves of shimmering mirth, rise from earth to

Fiction Poetry Rhyming Verse

Cold Nights and the Desert

March 25, 2017March 25, 2017 Paul Neglia 3016 Views 13 Comments alone, Dark, desert, PTSD, shadows, war

Tis the soul that is lost in the pillars of sand Tis the ready acumen of dismantling life, where we

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

Outback Gifts of Mother’s Moods

March 20, 2017March 21, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2062 Views 4 Comments Australia, change, desert, harsh, outback, poem

Australian Outback… Once the great brown land stretched to horizons, and within its harsh breath life existed: some basked in

Creative Writing Short Story

Song Within My Soul – Tally’s Song

February 13, 2017August 2, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2574 Views 9 Comments desert, folk hero, guitar music, on the road, Phyllis Doyle, short story

Tally’s Song Within My Soul Author’s note: This story is continued from Safe Home With You – Tally’s Song and is

Creative Writing Short Story

Safe Home With You – Tally’s Song

February 12, 2017August 2, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2689 Views 6 Comments desert, folk hero, guitar music, on the road, Phyllis Doyle, short story

Safe Home With You – Tally’s Song Author’s Note: This story is continued from First Home – Tally’s Song

Creative Writing Short Story

First Home – Tally’s Song

February 11, 2017August 2, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2909 Views 5 Comments desert, folk hero, on the road, Phyllis Doyle, short story, southwest

First Home – Tally’s Song Author’s Note: The story is continued from Jessie Snow – Tally’s Song Jessie awoke

Creative Writing Short Story

Jessie Snow – Tally’s Song

February 11, 2017August 2, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2645 Views 7 Comments desert, folk hero, guitar music, on the road, Phyllis Doyle, short story

Jessie Snow – Tally’s Song Author’s Note: This story is continued from ‘Tally’s Song’. At the age of fourteen,

Creative Writing Short Story

Tally’s Song

February 11, 2017August 2, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 3077 Views 8 Comments desert, folk hero, guitar music, on the road, Phyllis Doyle, short story

Tally’s Song Tally Gunther had been on the road since he was fifteen. He left home one night when he

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Desert Life

September 29, 2016January 20, 2017 Tony DeLorger 3906 Views 8 Comments beauty, desert, extremes, life, poem, survive

Desert extremes… And sun does sear the sky, blistered clouds and drying eyes, as summer’s deft touch paints the landscape,

Poetry Rhyming Verse

She Endures

May 26, 2016November 11, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1998 Views 2 Comments contrast, desert, endurance, grey, mother, nature

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Walls I Wander

May 8, 2016October 17, 2016 EdF 1624 Views 5 Comments desert, dreams, journey, walls, wander

Path towards eternal home … What path is this that I seek but the final journey towards eternal home no more

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