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[aid] => mick
[title] => Miracle Oasis
[time] => 2007-07-06 03:28:38
[hometext] => This is something like a story poem
[bodytext] => There was a desert, dry, hot and empty, Never a drop of rain, but its neighbors got plenty "If I only had a chance I know I could grow, into a beautiful place, with a river that flows", And everywhere else thought it was just a dream, there was no way "For that place to grow it would have to rain for 30 days!" And the desert would scream for just a little rain, Just one little storm to take away the pain, And for years he begged the clouds to send some down, "Just save a little for me when you soak the next town," But it always stayed that same brown sand And he finally realized this must be God's plan Until one day the wind blew over just a drop One drop of water, meant for a nearby crop that God carried on air until it hit this spot and sunk into the ground and spread all the way out and miraculously the ground shook and began to sprout And people came from far and from near took planes, trains and boats to get here to see the desert that turned into an oasis with one little drop of water meant for other places and what if no one would've ever known what a miracle that day was blown on a wisp of air to a desperate place that never got rain and yearned for a taste for centuries that desert begged to dance and after he'd given up he finally got the chance [comments] => 2 [counter] => 173 [topic] => 43 [informant] => Poess [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )
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