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I Am the Wind
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In the Sahara
...I am the wind.
I am Lord of the Sand 
Scraping raw the flesh;
Stirring the tribal Bedouin's robe;
Playing softly on the camel's fur;
Rippling the orange ocean desert...
Eroding it's features;
Knowing no boundaries;
Monarching the viper; 
Mastering the scorpion;
Dying on a darkened cave floor.
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In Antarctica
...I am the wind.
I am the Devil Dog;
Freezing the lost explorers words;
Carving on ice sheets across a glacier;
Empowering my will...
Forcing adaptation.
Causing the snow to dance;
Pushing clouds to their shifted cadence;
...changing minds;
Assuming nothing.
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On the Ocean
...I am the wind.
Quarreling with the sail;
Disrobing the whale's breach;
Arching the Hourglass dolphin's flight;
Kissing the encircling seagull;
Altering the currents;
Confounding the tempest;
Engraving the salted whitecaps;
I am Viking legend 
...the timeless hourglass;
The nautical sage.
I am the cat's paw waking;
I was there when the Aurora Borealis 
...was born.
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On the great Euro-Steppes
...I am the wind.
Dragon of lost history;
A marching pestilence.
I am the gray-ashen eyes of pandemia. 
I am the land pirate of stolen antiquities.
I am the painted swastika on the tanks
Of degenerate dictators
...the dust of shoeless gypsies;
I am the tribunal for a voiceless ghetto
...the marching orders of papal falsehood.
I murdered the Czar's family
...while you were sleeping.
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On the African Savannah
...I am the wind.
I am Orion's meadow.
I am the grist of the horde locust;
The condemned prey of the relentless.
I am the insipid fly 
...the wilderbeast's decaying carcass.
Swirling ...I am the deviant dust devil.
I am the nomadic warrior; the emaciated.
I am Juniper's inferno.
I am the earth's cracked skin;
Destroying, savage;
...I am rogue.
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On the Urban Streets
...I am the wind.
I am an ethnic turbulence.
I'm the alchemy of corporate greed;
The road rage of symphonic gridlock
...the fallen icon.
I am the street junkie's addiction
...the ulcer of political betrayal.
I am gangland's crusader;
Vigilant; 
I am the wind
...I am hope;
I am changing 
...what has changed.
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~    ....ian
~    9-29-13