Australia Blue (cheerfully ripping off Mao Zedong, “Snow”)

Australian desert

Centre country scene:

A thousand miles of desert,
Ten thousand miles of shimmering heat.

In and out the Dead Heart,
Only one great vastness;
Up and down the Diamantina,
Sand torrents stopped and stilled.

Hills dance like rainbow serpents,
Mirages race like shadowed giants,
Trying to vie with the sun in their reach.

A wild eye is needed
To view this wilderness decked with blue
In all its unforgiving beauty.

Thor

[Thor's other poems at http://thormay.net/literature/timepassing/timepassindex.html ]

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