A young boy describes his experiences with various desert phenomena. He traces the paths of lightning across a monsoon sky with his eyes and watches the world turn reddish brown as a dust storm approaches. He sees the sunset as the product of a giant squeezing tubes of paint from below the horizon and canyon walls as layers from the mud, sun, and parched-land years. The desert provides wonderful sensations for him to explore....

The poet brings forth the emotions of the soul and converts them to lines of whimsy, fear, gladness, and all other realms of passion. The audience of the reader connects with that written experience and is enveloped by his or her own reactions. In this first collection of poetry from Author World Connect, the poets have given a variety of writings to unite their work with the reader who will certainly benefit from the particip...

Four friends use their imaginations as they spend the day in the waters of a lake playing King of the Hill on a raft, making mud shampoos, splashing each other, and pretending a motorboat is a pirate ship. Water Play is written in rhyming stanzas....