Sinai
From the edge
Of the manicured, pampered hotel lawn,
Constantly damp under automated sprinklers.
I look across miles of harsh dry sand,
At the ragged, quartz cut, lunar mountains,
Glowing black before a setting white sun,
With no softening colour
To diminish ruthless passion.
A lone road winds, like dirty tired string,
Into the depths of this cruel beauty,
To a land unchanged by time.
Where a humble man can stand
And be at one with any moment
Between the beginning and the end.
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Submitted on March 10, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 468 |
Words | 84 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
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