A Power Within

Tag: Poem about the Desert

Jimaal.

Jimaal.

The leaden sky hung above this tiny Karawan,

wherefore do they travel?

dreams are packed within these

woven camel-coverings, as

their plodding graceful sway

on this warm sultry morning

goes steadily along…

 

as sure footed these unique beasts

make their way across the desert,

joy always goes with them, love and faith joins their dusty journey,

for without these much loved beasts of burden there would be no desert, no

pungent aroma of aspirations, desires, amid milk and life, no toil and no dreams…

SusieHemingway 2025

Photo courtesy of Fadi Lydon.

Those Desert Days – Reunion Al Ain – April 2017

Desert Days.

To walk on desert sands, to feel the warmth of the rust coloured grains between your toes,
the magic of this gentle land will steal your heart to return once more…

this land will embrace you, it will fill your eyes with wondrous visions, this torpid heat, indolent, inert and lazy will slow your pace

the vivid clarity of light, the cobalt sky will relentlessly cover you, it will embrace you, it will open tired eyes to see much further than the desert sands…

the silence of the desert will calm you, it will intrigue and bring serenity but it could also fatally teach you respect!

surreal the colours of sunset, vibrant, bathed in reds, enhancing the beauty
as does the ‘call to prayer’ like a knell at parting day…

this diorama just a spectacular painting, where artist’s brush chooses to change hourly, as the desert changes its colours as if a chameleon

this rhythm and flow…this energy of life proves as natural as breathing,
the colours mock and tease us, pumpkin, magenta, vermillion, amber, all colours of the palette are here,

it is haunting, a delightful sanctuary, a restful utterance of joy which speaks to me,

it is meditative, it is a powerful authority, so often the face of courage,

it is the desert, for It is the desert…

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