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Towering Dunes
Describe a desert. Describe the desolation, the heat, the tricks of mirages...use as much detail as you can. Make your reader sweat just by thinking about it, make them dehydrated and lost. It's one of the most boring landscapes out there...so show us why it's such a prominent setting for so many stories.
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The Sweltering Desert...

It happened to be a scorching day,

A day that was scorching in every way,

I looked all around me at the sky

The Sun like a fire in the Sky,

I looked around at the trees

were there any fruit besides the birds and the bees?

It happened to be a scorching day,

A day that was scorching in every way,

I looked to see for if there was any plain

any place for a lake to quench my thirst and keep me sane...

I looked at the birds in the trees

the birds and the bees seemed busy it seemed

It happened to be a scorching day,

A day that was scorching in every way,

I looked at the sandy dunes

I looked at the ever present moon

even though it was still noon

I asked God for an answer still

To help keep me calm until

The scorching summer had passed

and the winds of change had come atlast...