A desert is a place without expectation.

quote by Nadine Gordimer
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Where are breads in the desert?

Swedish proverbs
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

quote by Don Van Vliet
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The Desert Is In Your Heart

producer for bonnie: ?
Recorded in 1992 for sophie arbaniti 's album 'parafora', lyrics taken from
Careful listening.
First half of this song is in greek...so your guess is as good as mine - here's
The english part...
You move the veil from your face
And escape from the world that is hurting
You feel oppressed when you know
That the words are killing the meaning
There is no reason to hide in the dark
When you're far from the fighting
How can you dream in a world that is getting greyer than grey?
You don't have to hide your face, there's no disgrace
There's no harm in knowing that we're all a part of the human race
You have got to lift your head, think of what he said
You were born to know the truth, nothing but the truth, and what the truth is
Worth
Oh, the desert is in your heart
In your heart
The desert is in your heart

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song performed by Bonnie Tyler
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Any water in the desert will do.

Arabian proverbs
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Experiences are ignored

I court woman after woman.
They desert me one after the other.
I befriend man after man.
They desert me one after the other.
I don’t learn from experience.
08.09.2006

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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High Stakes for Friend Thad

The sun scorched desert lies in wait.
Implacable but patiently
Its moving contours undulate
moving swiftly but silently.

There are no landmarks men can see
to know exactly where they are
On every side hostility
the desert’s not particular.

They have no way to navigate
across the ever changing sea
of endless dusty real estate
which alters imperceptibly.

The sunlit slopes and shadows change
more quickly than men think they can
The desert’s free to rearrange
the landscape and so baffle man
.

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poem by Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg
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I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

quote by Nigella Lawson
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(V – 2010) Laiku 228

(5) Poetry:
From the deserts of despair and despondency
The coolness of nights singing with passion madly

poem by Kannan G
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New, New Minglewood Blues

New, New Minglewood Blues
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I was born in the desert
Raised in a lion's den
I was born in the desert
Raised in a lion's den
Oh, my number one occupation
Is stealing women from their men
Well, I'm a wanted man in Texas,
busted jail and I'm gone for good.
Said, I'm a wanted man in Texas,
busted jail and I'm gone for good.
Well, the sheriff couldn't catch me,
but his little girl sure wished she could.
Well now the doctor call me crazy,
sometimes I am, sometimes I ain't,
Said now the doctor call me crazy,
sometimes I am, sometimes I ain't,
Yes, and the preacher man call me sinner
but his little girl call me saint.

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song performed by Grateful Dead
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New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

quote by Simeon Strunsky
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Death Waits on the Shores of Tripoli

He scans the desert night
for apocalyptic stars
and shrieks with delight
when hurtling spears
pierce pounding hearts.

Desert sands
lust for blood;
life declines
to ancient dust.

poem by Steven Federle
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Pearls are of no value in a desert.

Indian proverbs
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Unfenced garden - fenced in desert.

Bulgarian proverbs
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Questions to Desert Wind…

You wonder,
Did the desert wind already forgotten to past?

No dearest, it has always blown so gently…
Crafting this dry open desert,
Shifting mystical sand dunes,
Bringing precious droplets to a thirsty bird,
To comfort her broken heart!

You further asked,
O desert wind…
Why erased my written message in the sand?

So let it be a permanent secret,
Cause I have already engraved it in my heart.

poem by Desert Life
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If You Say An Evil Word

The sky will open a broken horizon
Spill the rain of wounded thoughts
The water will drawn itself
Flooded by unhappiness

If you think an evil thought
Everything in the universe will spill
The sand clocks of unhappy hours
The deserts will pile up the deserts
Into the graves burring themselves
Covered by wretchedness

So if you hear an evil thought
And can’t stand its pain
And can’t purify it in your heart
Just don’t say anything

poem by Miroslava Odalovic
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Monuments

Crystal the desert
Sands sifted in dry air
Sun flecked sparkling.
Wind plays out,
Whistling, weathering rock
Sculpting.
Sand blasts in desert storms.
Fine glass moulds, shapes,
Caresses, smooths.
Forged in the heat of the desert days
Cold of its night.
Making monuments to natures art.
Towers of pink and yellow
Watch over rock strewn plains
Waterless river beds
In silent serenity.

Copyright P H Brookes 2012

poem by Paul Brookes
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More Less Water Disaster Formula

global warming means weather shifts
more rain faster harder causing floods
less rain more deserts causing famine

poem by Terence George Craddock
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The devout have laid out gardens in the desert.

quote by Robert Duncan
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A home without a mother is a desert.

Eritrean proverbs
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