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Desert Rose

By J Ann Crowder

You grow on sandy blankets, like springtide's silhouette lighting barren land left behind by winter’s dream
 
You dip toward a sky’s dotted and dappled, shimmering umbrella
 
You soak beneath heaven’s lamplight of silky Milky Way
 
Stars bow to your gaze and a dry, lazy desert entreats your delicate hues dressing her
 
You are an oasis of pungently sweet aromas amidst stagnant fields of heat
 
Bees steal your saccharine kisses of nectar—we capture their honeyed delights in jars
 
You bedazzle lonely beaches yearning for color
 
Desert Rose,
You flood empty spaces inside me, filling them with poetry as I paint you with my words
 
Your luscious pinks and strong edges of reds dance on my thoughts, enlivening visions of stardust on earth’s black cloak
 
’Tis light pressing against nothingness, creating magic’s luminous song
 
You press against stark and brittle bones of thirsty, colorless landscapes
 
You bloom on slight threads, weary and near broken
 
You exemplify teachings of nature’s eternal truths: Light’s strength is stronger than dark’s heavy veil—when light enters, dark will always part her thick and dreary curtains

Written February 1st, 2017.

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