The Desert's Rose and Salt of the Earth: Collection of Poetry

By Matthew Salinas

"The Desert's Rose and Salt of the Earth" is a collection of two poetry books dwelling on adversity and triumph over it. Matthew Salinas embraces the common struggle of the human spirit to find meaning in the moments it finds itself in. A reflection of daily living, religion, and social acceptance, these poems appeal to overcoming challenges and finding beauty in uncommon places.

This two part collection of ruminating poetry contemplates the daily struggle of common people. The voyage for acceptance and happiness our souls embark on launches again each day.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Oct 2, 2020
• ISBN: 9781098334567

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Only when the last syllable has been spoken, we can reasonably assume the world will have ended. Created with a word, and maybe destroyed by one. -Ibid

Copyright August 2020 © Matthew Salinas.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

ISBN (eBook) 978-1-09833-456-7

Dedicated to my desert’s rose, who inspires me everyday.

Contents

The Desert’s Rose

Dedication

Reclamation

Proclamation

Vessel

Voyage

Mirage

Somnambulist

Insomnia

Dreamscapes and Daze

The Desert’s Rose

At the Expense

A home for your kind

Oscillations

Voyage Part II

Passage

Home-Bound

Memories

Amnesia

The Castle

The Woods

The Village

Migrational

Colloquial

Loveliest Lies of All

Remission

...A White Fence

Salt of the Earth

Prologue

Sunrise

Burden

A Man’s Hands

The Grand Clock

The End of Progression

The Wheel

Unrelenting

A Short Interjection

Afternoon

A Breath of Air

Hillside

The Path Laid

The Clocksmith

Secrets

Evening

Observe and Dream

Night Comes

Revelations

Coming Home

Turning Pages

Night

Etch Marks

Minimal Sentence

Sickle

Fool’s Errand

Prospect

A Voice

Seed

Insulation

Ailes

Indentation

The Dog and The Bone

Epilogue

About the author

The Desert’s Rose

Dedication

In honor, in blood, in a vestibule of God’s heavenly abode.

Lust, abhorrence and even love. All of which dedication is born of.

Rationale of virtue, scorching inward, burning out,

Paralleling within you, stumbling skyward, beyond a doubt.

The notions of verisimilitude beguiled by persuasions,

Objectively truth has no obligations, only subjugation.

Relative, to old aspirations, never traversed to destinations.

Festive, now the light, my star of entropy, beyond ill fated grasps,

Clawing at the night’s air, uncertain, the loyalty does lapse.

Sunken, hallowed, vengeful, the streaks of daylight reclaiming the real estate of perdition.

Unwillingly certain, to the bones and the brittle,

Us, God’s children, alone and left dying in the middle.

Hidden behind curtains, of no homes and of hopes little.

The pipening wren, set flocking, and soul sought to whittle,

Spread far beneath, controlling in appearances only,

A widow of a soul, a loneliness within itself by itself lonely

Making the distinction ever more apparent.

So are we, dedications and and all the virtues,

Of Gods sought, the gift of the world’s all.

Beyond a discourse of planetary motion, without intent to stall.

Here I am, predictions and walls.

Penning the sullen odds. Recanting beneath heavens what our souls saw, a dedication of this labor, of my blood, to one and to all.

Reclamation

A shadow of a ghost, unrelenting and juxtaposed by cinder.

Silhouettes nor shadows, gallow pull, gallow call, sparking twine as tinder.

Hollow, unsatisfied, the requiem of slumber, call us home.

Hallowed, christened emperium of fortunes severed of a viable throne.

Craven are the wolves, brittle the bone tempered by blacksmiths, metal by stone.

Fears undaunting, ye relentless, cold, grieving baron.

Children of mercy, hypothermic, dreamscapes laid barren.

Call now your God, spill forth the carrion. By heaven’s might!

Cast down your lightning, Heaven’s respite!

REPENT! THE SINFUL! Now have we come to absolution?

Beyond the toils of our laborious conclusion.

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Reviews for The Desert's Rose and Salt of the Earth

[Matthew Salinas · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Beautiful and from the heart. A compilation of emotions and ideas that extend out to numerous walks of life.