Trust In God And Do The Right (Norman MacLeod Poems)
Courage, brother, do not stumble, Though thy path be dark as night; There's a star to guide the humble-- Trust in God and ...
Norman MacLeod Poems (47 Poems)
Adumbration (Norman MacLeod Poems)
You are a simulacrumOf what I believe you to beAnd what is neededBut you are somethingOther than thisYou answer off-key.Spike ...
Casa Grande: Arizona (Norman MacLeod Poems)
Hohokams trod a river trail In a desert's middle ages;The warriors hunted fox and quail And learned what drouth presages.The tined yellow ...
Rain Sequence (Norman MacLeod Poems)
1.Traces of the rains that pass Are skimming higher mesa-parts,But hardly giving cactus bloom Where the desert starts.Sands, receptive, ask too much And ...
Apostrophe (Norman MacLeod Poems)
Santa Fe and Taos, you have sunshine and windbut you are, nevertheless, dark--irrefragably dark, and yet who would have youotherwise?White ...
Bohobodom (Norman MacLeod Poems)
Panguitch is a godforsaken hole...Biff Sullivan and meStopped over for the nightOnce last OctoberA lady gives us grubAnd over at ...
Gunsight Trail: Glacier (Norman MacLeod Poems)
More than I the winds that passHave brushed the bloom from grass,Carrying the Bear Bloom, sorrelPast bars of stars; the ...
Tonopah And Clergy (Norman MacLeod Poems)
In the shadow of the cloister,There are few inclined to roisterWith the men in TonopahSwaggering to primal law.Holy wine is ...
Paragraph (Norman MacLeod Poems)
Shanty of dreams I have loved you under magnolia trees scattered with flimsy star luster fanned by the jasmine night breeze...Pine trees that ...
Desert Burial (Norman MacLeod Poems)
Gazing over painted sands Beneath the brazen skiesIs not a feat that one can doWith desiccated eyes.Eyes were given to this ...
Antidote (Nogales, Sonora, Mexico) (Norman MacLeod Poems)
Topers in NogalesPrefer the Greaser's Side;Laws are not astringent, Thirst is deified...Mountains mauve and beryl,Their ragged ends awry,Piercing through the topaz Melted ...
Episode: Agua Prieta (Norman MacLeod Poems)
I was head of the crushersin a line of sunsetswhen something broke insideand they took my friendto strain vermiliondown his ...
Jemez: Today (Norman MacLeod Poems)
Pink pueblos line the plazalittered with a motley crewfronts the waning fall fiestaas the sunset clouds imbruethe skyline streaming bloodand ...
Prospectors (Norman MacLeod Poems)
He could never understandMountains were not made for speech,That there was something out of reachIn shifting dunes of sand;Sage was ...
Going To The Sun (Norman MacLeod Poems)
There is something providentIn a buckling firmamentThat raises in a rocky captionGoing-To-The-Sun's red bastion:Silt of terrace, soil of plainThere is ...
Old Isleta (Norman MacLeod Poems)
Sing me a song of a vanished race That fled from Gran QuiviraDown through the Upper Rio Grande Past pinnacled tiara.Tell me ...
Retribution (Norman MacLeod Poems)
Riveted to mountain slopes,The Douglas fir and pineWere as firm as ribs of steelWhere drills pneumatic whine;Ogres of our country's ...
Blue Marl (Norman MacLeod Poems)
Squat in the hollowsOf the hills,There is an ordureNo wind kills.Flat on the surfaceOf the land,There is a riverSinks through ...
Verlaine (Norman MacLeod Poems)
Write a poem, dunderhead, That we may have new dresses(Is it not disgraceful how The old man takes caresses?)Take them to the ...
Notan (Norman MacLeod Poems)
The moon should curve inside the arc A spitting cat sets high,But brick is merged in alley dark And no orb lights ...
Hopi-Land (Norman MacLeod Poems)
The desert is magical shadow of dusk Filtering over red sandsAnd all is as still as a drifted pueblo Raised through the ...
Papago Saguaro (Norman MacLeod Poems)
Morning ...verdant fingers of the wastecrooked against the skypastel clouds of rising dawndeep emerald of thorny stemstinged with dustand dryEvening ...
Heritage (Norman MacLeod Poems)
Stretch of windless ocean sand,With no green inchoateLilting of the sea, will bearOnly creosote.No dark fish or ghoulish formOscillates at ...
Stone Axe Ruins (Norman MacLeod Poems)
A skyscraper may touch the blueIn a silver mold--These houses had no girderTo make the ceiling hold.But walls of rich ...
Booze Runners (Norman MacLeod Poems)
Below the canadian rockiesthe booze is run with cadillac jockiesover the line past the tapeof the border;hang your chin on ...
Escarpment (Norman MacLeod Poems)
Tequila of the moon can beMore liquid to the tasteAnd drenching to aridityThan rain on desert waste;Pungent as a sagebrush ...
Atavism (Norman MacLeod Poems)
For surfeit of the civilized, Silence atones,A soughing wind in tamarack, Stones;With nothing but a burro train, Stars for a goalAnd monolith for ...
Hungo Pavi (Norman MacLeod Poems)
The man that wore a crooked nose Could look behind the daysThat hid themselves in mist of rose And calm of purple ...
Beyond The Sun (Norman MacLeod Poems)
He that plaits the mountain chains Sees them rise and fall,And hollows caves for desert men Who hear the Sun Priest call.They ...
Desert Horizon (Norman MacLeod Poems)
Hills are spiralling Into chrysoprase, Eager to be stolidlyPosturing haze.Edges of the world Ever should be far; Sand is not fair linen,Rock a star. ...