Desert Wind – Pulse of the Planet

Desert Wind
Ambience; Desert Winds, Anza-Borrego Desert

Some sounds from the Anza-Borrego Desert and excerpts from a poem by Bertrand N.O. Walker. I’m Jim Metzner and this is the Pulse of the Planet.

Lonely, open, vast and free, 
The darkening desert lies; 
The wind sweeps over it fiercely, 
And the yellow sand flies. 
The tortuous trail is hidden, 
Ere the sand-storm has passed 
With all its wild, mad shriekings, 
Borne shrilly on its blast.

The wind has spent its fierce wild wail,
The dark storm-pall has shifted, 
Forth on his sight the stars gleam pale 
In the purpling haze uplifted.

The poem is called A Desert Memory, written by Bertrand N.O. Walker, born in 1869 and died in 1926. He published his poems under his Wyandot name, Hen-toh. I’m Jim Metzner and this is the Pulse of the Planet.

Desert Wind

Poetry and Sounds of the Anza Borego Desert

Air Date:01/21/2022

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Desert Wind Ambience; Desert Winds, Anza-Borrego Desert Some sounds from the Anza-Borrego Desert and excerpts from a poem by Bertrand N.O. Walker. I'm Jim Metzner and this is the Pulse of the Planet. Lonely, open, vast and free,  The darkening desert lies;  The wind sweeps over it fiercely,  And the yellow sand flies.  The tortuous trail is hidden,  Ere the sand-storm has passed  With all its wild, mad shriekings,  Borne shrilly on its blast. The wind has spent its fierce wild wail, The dark storm-pall has shifted,  Forth on his sight the stars gleam pale  In the purpling haze uplifted. The poem is called A Desert Memory, written by Bertrand N.O. Walker, born in 1869 and died in 1926. He published his poems under his Wyandot name, Hen-toh. I'm Jim Metzner and this is the Pulse of the Planet.