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.