Best Stratum Poems
A Vanilla Dove
...Cypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
gravel birth cords sinuous
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Categories:
stratum, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Rest
...Rest now
O restless heart
released in ebb to flow
ride the other side of the king tide rising
buoyant your movement in rise with the waves
Rise! to beyond where breakers break long-suffering......
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Categories:
stratum, death, freedom, heaven, journey,
Form:
Free verse
You
...I stared into the mirror today.
I saw you -
a needled zealot
hovering around my left shoulder;
Adolph Hitler dressed in
opium-perfumed swatches.
You smelled like her.
You acted like him.
Y......
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Categories:
stratum, on writing and words
Form:
Free verse
The Calling Gull Of Aquinnah
...The calling gull leaves her nest
her wild magic cleaves the nimbus.
An avian aerialist suspended aloft
she sails on tapered ribbons of cirrus silk,
ruffled sea breeze ironed ‘neath her lustrous ......
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Categories:
stratum, appreciation, growth, introspection, love,
Form:
Free verse
Truth In the Hiatus
...Today, the sun shone brightly over our shores.
Peering over the forest and meeting the cores
We share fundamental truths across the waterways.
across the grasslands, then onto the Hima......
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Categories:
stratum, analogy, change, community, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Picking At Scabs
...
Written April 11, 2025, for Contest Sponsored by Edward Ibeh
Quote: 1/ “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ? Rumi
2/ "Many times we pick at the bitt......
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Categories:
stratum, appreciation, bereavement,
Form:
Rhyme
Spring Sonata
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Written: Mars 1st, 2024
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Spring sonata serenades a zest of love bloom
Daffodils dance, tulips swing, birds sing and fly
Azure sky, brillia......
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Categories:
stratum, appreciation, love, spring,
Form:
Free verse
The Village On the Water VII
...Raised Stone-Tablet eternally abiding under
Towering Heavens endless span; and in its
Solititude...charts the migrations of our
Highest Lord's cestial rockets.
Because of Stone-Table......
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Categories:
stratum, appreciation, imagery, places,
Form:
Free verse
'feel What I Feel'
...The night stretches out in front of me
Thoughts floating between
loneliness and contentment
Sometimes I like being in my own space
Other times I yearn for the comfort of being with yo......
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Categories:
stratum, imagination, love,
Form:
Free verse
No Place For An Eagle
...Unable to grasp the the context
Despite her greatest resolve
The Queen Bee frowns at her, vexed
Into the background my girl dissolves
Hive order is a nasty one
Mean girls, stingers in back
Ea......
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Categories:
stratum, culture, girl, social,
Form:
Quatrain
Beauty of Nature
...Beauty of nature is in its dictum.
The world is being stratified,
here life and plants are as the guide,
charming consensus of the stratum.
Hushing tones of the swinging pines,
hikers often do......
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Categories:
stratum, nature,
Form:
Verse
Descent And Ascent
...I fall a raindrop from stratus to stratum
birthed from clouds pregnant with thunder
a lion’s roar —a pride in the sky— fierce!
armed with lightning’s rip and slit
the scythe of claw and tooth fin......
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Categories:
stratum, conflict, freedom, introspection, life,
Form:
Free verse
Starved Rock
...On this peaceful land where we live comfortably
with the neighboring villagers sharing the sun and moon,
stars and clouds, winds and waters, rains and snows;
we sow the seeds on the field, wande......
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Categories:
stratum, america, pain, people, river,
Form:
Narrative
Atmospheric Pressure
...Atmosphere stratified over billions of years
Envelopes the Earth with protective layers
Saves the life from damaging solar radiation
Controls the climate and its spatial variation
Burns meteorite......
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Categories:
stratum, inspirational, life, mountains,
Form:
Rhyme
The Vase of Mindfulness
...Strands of breeze criss-cross the blossomed garden,
like destemmed leaf I rustle aimless on the ground,
don’t see the beauty of the flowers floating away,
don’t find motif on butterfly wing flutte......
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Categories:
stratum, analogy, imagery, life, simile,
Form:
Free verse