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Sorrow desert

January 9, 2014
By Opticalillusion DIAMOND, Edenton, North Carolina
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Opticalillusion DIAMOND, Edenton, North Carolina
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I am an artist bound only for the poet's glory....But only achieve half of the success that my dreams aspire to find, And to what do the whispers tell me of this failure...To what end to they haunt my nightmares...my eternal dark dreams...

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Wind sweeps the sand unending,
The barren of nature unrelenting and unforgiving.
Woe for those who are lost in sorrow desert,
left to feed the starved buzzard.

They are given a dusty tomb...


Flesh eaten by scavengers with little concern,
only to become bones to feed the earth.
Forsaken by dusty blizzards,
forgotten by all except sorrow desert.


Sent back to mother nature's womb...


The sea of crimson sands,
Infused with the storms devoted to death of man.
Tis where the vultures shed their feathers,
For they are the only ones who can survive sorrow desert.

© Andrew S., Milford, CT

The author's comments:
My second sonnet. Wrote it write after Red-Wind hill, I imagined myself in the eye of a sandstorm. Wondering how horrific it would be...
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Harri SILVER said...
on Feb. 27 2014 at 4:46 pm
Harri SILVER, Auburn Hills, Michigan
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Wow! I can really see what you are writing.  I feel the same as I did with Red-Wind hill. It needs to be a tad longer. 
xxMedievalShadexx GOLD said...
on Feb. 27 2014 at 4:36 pm
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Holy... that sounds powerful. and deep. I like *thumbs up*
JSkeletonRocks PLATINUM said...
on Jan. 23 2014 at 10:00 pm
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Nice job, this sounds good! You have some talent.