A Desert Trek Comments

MY FAVORITE stanza so far [for its 1st and 4th lines and for the rhyming]: “The desert greeted us like a warm host. After the blistering heat of the day, The night had turned pleasantly cool Promising us the boon of a delectable stay” more favorite lines: “From far it looked a glowing scarlet pyre Often the wind passed the burning faggots with a pat” ……..sounds like you were pioneers traveling in the western U.S.150 years ago! “The whirling and wheeling current of air Drew and redrew, etched and erased, ” …………nice w/w and e/e alliterations. “We helped each other blow off the grain” …………. only one grain! :) a nice story, reminiscent of pioneers in U.S., but also reminds me of middle eastern and African scenes I might imagine. camels were imported to part of the southwestern U.S. many years ago for use by the Army I believe. this shall go to the September showcase and into MyPoemList. thanks. bri :)

The desert greeted us like a warm host. After the blistering heat of the day, The night had turned pleasantly cool Promising us the boon of a delectable stay A poet said, For every dark and troubled night there is a day of sunny rest, but a hot desert is a contrast, where a pleasant night avenges the hardships of a tiring day.

A beautiful elaboration of the desert through an trekking story in which I was totally absorbed. gave a lovely feeling as if I also was a member with you in that camp fire in the desert. , , , , , , , , Loved it

What a magnificent poem. Such depth of details and flow I don't even have enough words of praise accept a big thank you for writing and sharing. I felt like accompanying you by camp fire!

The wide stretch, dry and sterile Lay vast and mysterious in the luminous night Sometimes we felt as if lost in a land abstruse That extended before us beyond all boundary and limit.....great like it...

Let me guess, were u in the Rajasthan desert? I always admire sand dune patterns, the creamy lookin sea of sand. Yor epic was fascinatin fit to be a Nat Geo poem! Kudos fellow Indian poetess.

Once embarked upon, your journey in desert became as much an existential quest as a natural-history trek......... Valsa........the greatest ever on Nature expressed so splendidly..............

I have never read a poem that extols the form and the properties of a desert like this. As absolute good and evil are just our manipulations, we are indeed expected to see the right in the wrong and vice versa.Our nature in her genuine entity has nothing to be abhorred in lumpsum and often she craves for human mercy upon her.Your trekking over these sanddunes and the often deserted tracks fills in a vacuum that was much needed in the PH.Then comes the charm of its rendering and the sequence of thoughts intervowen with catchy lines.An excellent tribute paid to unsung and silent beauty of your choice this is! Thank you madam for sharing this write madam.

Imagination at its best! So dear, are you in deserts of Rajasthan, or on an astral journey to Thar? Desert indeed is enigmatic. Its diurnal character, dual personality, compliments well the lifestyle of nomads over there. Beautifully penned dear. Sorry for being inactive dear, I'll try to more time to poetry, and no doubt your poems keep me engaged!

A great poem about the search for meaning in one's life - going through a desert experience. Beautifully written!

A great poem about the search for meaning in one's life - going through a desert experience. Beautifully written!

Man has ever been relentless explorer. The lure of the mysterious, he can never withstand. How beautifully the blessed poet told the experience of the journey and stay in night that too in a desert. How beautifully the poet created the poem in wonderful words and I feel the imagination is so nice and recited the poem in its vibration and word power which I feel a best of experience that got in this column.

Visiting the desert can be exciting after crossing the rocky mountains. A visit in the desert in jocund company is all the more exciting. All the excitement is beautifully filled in the poem. Enjoyed the poem a lot.

Sand dunes peeked here and there And a caravan of camels with bells in their neck Was crossing the length of sands stretching infinite Carrying turbaned riders on their humpy back.. this sketch I love the most in this poem of wonderful streams of thoughts in the desert.

A great poem/story. Really like it.