Desert Wind

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.