Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THAT DESERT WASTE, by KATHLEEN O'DONNELL


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THAT DESERT WASTE, by                    
First Line: My heart is absent from all sorrow
Last Line: Will come along with a great fragrant spray.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating


My heart is absent from all sorrow,
I just feel like a king on the throne
When I view the great cacti around me,
Standing there like soldiers of my own.

In the mornings the air is so bracing
With the sunlight peeping over all ways,
And the sand hills are almost caressing.
Why should I refrain from its praise?

The wind may toss up my surroundings,
But a new one it will lay down on the way,
And the rains -- though not very often --
Will come along with a great fragrant spray.





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