Sands
by Hazel Ward Adcock
Scientists tell of singing sands
What songs?
What songs sing the singing sands?
I went to a dessert place
To learn the song of the singing sands
These offspring of rocks
Forever lost, wanderers of the winds
Flowing obliterating tracks
In high wind fury
Blowing into newly-sculptered dunes
Burning at noon time
Shivering, quaking in moonlight;
Calm burning days
Of diamond shimmer and mirage
Bright water waving, lapping
Glimmering fading forever
As we approach.
At last I heard the song
Its grand song
Song of the only truth or certainty
The grand song of time and change.
Never lost, never the same.
(c) 1997
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