Theinkwell Poetry Challenge | Desert Ghosts

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This sonnet was written in response to The Ink Well poetry challenge.

I decided to include both of the prompts in the poem. The first was the word ghost and the second the sentence - the day the rains came.

The sonnet follows the Shakespearean model with three verses and a final two line refrain. The rhyme scheme is an abab cdcd efef gg structure, and I have included a YouTube video reading below to better express the feeling and voice of the poem.

Desert Ghosts

The day the rains came again
drops flailed the fallow earth
like chestnuts popping in flames,
mana moulded in the seed’s birth.
Gloaming settled in dewy haze,
a breath of life now returning
to blistered deserts once ablaze
with Ra’s endless fury burning.
These ghosts of gods can be heard
in the gentle whispering sirocco,
shaped by the theatre of absurd
hopes of promise land of Jericho.

The rains will fall, the grass will grow
the river of time will endlessly flow.

© Rowan Joyce, all rights reserved.

All videos, music and photos are creative commons licence, please see links below.

Video:
https://www.pexels.com/video/dry-stal...

https://www.pexels.com/video/drone-fo...

https://www.pexels.com/video/hands-in...

https://www.pexels.com/video/drone-fo...

Music:
The Calling by Angelwing - https://www.freemusicpublicdomain.com

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