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Location: dead tree vlei, namibia
Date: Oct 23, 2005
Galleries: Landscape
Date Uploaded: Oct 24, 2005

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Comments: 17
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 River of Sand

I remember rivers in my roots,
the Old Tree groaned, and how I drank and grew.
I remember birds at rest, the way
they sang dusk down, and slept the long night through.

I remember reaching for the dawn
as clouds of birds took flight across the sun,
reveling in their freedom, knowing they
would soon return, sure as the day was done.

I and my brothers held the desert back
three hundred years and more, and life was sweet,
until the river changed her course, and sand
flowed in the water's place, and waves of heat

stole all my life and left me gaunt and spare,
etched against dunes, a ghost in desert air.

*****

Robt.

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 03/20/2007 10:54:10 AM
i didn't notice this in your folio before. amazing composition!
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 03/20/2007 10:52:08 AM
Wonderful image. Amazing what can be so easily missed with all of the photo's available on this site.

I haven't voted on 'Image Grain II' - but if you have something along these lines out there it would win without question.

Outstanding work, as usual. :D
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 12/10/2006 09:19:20 PM
I don't remember seeing this one before. It is so intriguing.
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 06/20/2006 09:23:41 AM
I love this, and something like this would be so great for the current challenge, "Desolation"..... There is definately a story behind this image.....
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 12/24/2005 12:32:13 AM
thank you very much robert.
 12/04/2005 04:58:26 AM
Originally posted by bear_music:
What's a "vlei", Lesley? And no, that's not your poem LOL. That's my sound of admiration. I'm trying to build a knowledge base to work with here. What's the STORY? The deserts's encroaching on these trees? Or it's moved past them and they are unearthed after a long time of being buried?


Dead Vlei is an old pan which has not had regular water since the river changed its course. Now it just has the skeletons of old acacias here, some of them well over 500 years old.
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 12/03/2005 06:33:30 AM
What's a "vlei", Lesley? And no, that's not your poem LOL. That's my sound of admiration. I'm trying to build a knowledge base to work with here. What's the STORY? The deserts's encroaching on these trees? Or it's moved past them and they are unearthed after a long time of being buried?
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 12/03/2005 05:34:31 AM
is that my poem bear music? :(

its dead tree vlei in namibia. those are sand dunes behind it.
 12/03/2005 05:18:26 AM
Holy macaroni and cheese! What a strange image!
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 12/01/2005 10:46:04 AM
W O W ! You are so amazing...
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 11/05/2005 10:24:54 PM
Thats kind of spooky. I thought that it was snow at first. (It's time to think about snow here.)
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 11/03/2005 01:06:42 PM
the people in this image just put those awesome sand dunes into perspective. nice image.
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 10/25/2005 05:49:58 AM
Awesome, I have to go there!
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 10/25/2005 05:30:55 AM
Can't tell if that is sky or a huge sand dune in the distance, but no matter, done these kind before and love the feeling of scale!
And an outtake? Can I pull my entry out now?
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 10/24/2005 07:56:06 PM
ah, there it is. i new i'd find something new for my favorites today.
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 10/24/2005 07:51:52 PM
awesome!
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 10/24/2005 11:30:52 AM
GRAIN!!! 10. fave. you're the bomb, again. Tree branches seem like the arms of a hydra...evocative of old sea monster tales. nice.
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