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Drought
Francis William Bourdillon
For rain, for rain the parched lands cry,
Reproachful to the cloudless sky.
The hot white fields in light are blinking,
The rivers in their beds are...
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Drought
William Henry Ogilvie
My road is fenced with the bleached, white bones
And strewn with the blind, white sand,
Beside me a suffering, dumb world moans
On the breast of a...
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Drought
Nikhil Parekh
Hordes of cattle lay lifeless on the streets,
lush green crops had withered in meek submission,
succulent fruits on tree branches had died a...
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DROUGHT
JP.
DROUGHT

A liquid asset as described
To be conserved perhaps imbibed
And not to waste sent down a loo
Nor hosed away whatever you...
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Drought
Ludy Bührs
Rains don’t come, the crops don’t grow.
With tears unseen, the hurt will glow,
eat out the heart of many men
who struggle to get just one out of ten....
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A Drought Idyll
George Essex Evans
It was the middle of the drought; the ground was hot and bare,
You might search for grass with a microscope, but nary grass was there;
The hay was...
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After Long Drought
Mark Van Doren
After long drought, commotion in the sky;
After dead silence,...
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After the Drought
Ludy Bührs
Droplets effervesce on passion fruit,
Defiantly dangling on its stem.
Mature plants reopen their sweet chute,
Vividly regaining terrain, each one of...
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Drought and Doctrine
James Brunton Stephens
Come, take the tenner, doctor . . . yes, I know the bill says “five,”
But it ain't as if you'd merely kep' our little 'un alive;
Man, you saved the...
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In Time of Drought
Mary Hannay Foott
The rushes are black by the river bed,
And the sheep and the cattle stand
Wistful-eyed, where the waters were,
In a waste of gravel and sand;
Or pass...
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The Drought King's Trumpeter
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
Said old Pete, the Pensioner:
'I met him down the road
Where, twixt the shadders of the gums,
The silver moonlight flowed.
His skin was white like...
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The Drought Season
Ehsan Sehgal
O my stranger
Who understand the pain
They do not cause the pain
They do not mask themselves
To create the wall
Of the doubts and confusion
The...
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The Drought
Kurt Philip Behm
Abbots of darkness
bishops of pain
Cloistered in dogma
praying for rain

Thunderous chanting

 tempest above
Damning false prophets
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