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Best Stratus Poems

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Premium Member Stratus Gray
The laceleaf maple's crimson organs fall
and scatter on the ground like shattered glass,
as naked shadowed fingers shade the pall
and Autumn days prepare to shout their...

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Categories: stratus, seasons,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member 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;
the gravel...

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Categories: stratus, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Clouds Are the Personality of the Sky
Image: Cloud Fantasy, by Susan Lawrence

On spring's green carpet I repose, revitalizing the soul
passing slow minutes pondering the sky

The lake whispers a morning meditation
as memories...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stratus, art, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Harlots of Spring
The harlot maples crimson tipped nails
tap, drum, strum, and plunk;
at Aprils blasted blue sky.
Raking a wind born trail 
across skeletal palms
and forearmed branches,
in a come-hither...

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Categories: stratus, love
Form: Personification
Premium Member I Wondered Lonely As a Cloud
(Inspired by Wordsworth's poem of the same title)

The stratus clouds that mingle hand in hand,
nor lacy cirrus feathers stretched on high,
can stay the gaze of...

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Categories: stratus, life,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Toils of a Tree
The dense stratus manipulates the sunlight
Rugged heath fades as day turns to night,
Solitary tree recoils
Unaware embroils
In respect
Toils,
Self respect
In winter’s turmoil's
Evokes and then disembroils,
When with groans...

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Categories: stratus, nature, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Man Made and Manufactured
The human synchronized synthetic sympathetic empathy I robot schizophrenic mechanism
My lifelines technological I think therefore I am and showing potential
Experimental experience my influence controls the...

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Categories: stratus, creation, future, hip hop,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Summer Skies
Summer Skies

Summer sizzles shading seashore skies
Singing season songs – solstice surprise --
Sweet salmon sunsets spin splendorous shades
Strawberry sunrise spawns stratus shifting serenades.

Sapphire sky’s secret soliloquys...

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Categories: stratus, sky, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Sunrise
Sunrise

A pinkish-orange reflection upon the stratus clouds
With several hues of blue, overhead and way beyond
The trees are silhouette, still dark within their shadows
A spasm in...

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Categories: stratus, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stars of Clarity
stars of clarity hide - muffled
lost in a flurry of blizzards,
like the screams of famished owls
that echo through a silent wood.

wet snow falls - frozen...

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Categories: stratus, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Before a Storm
The day before a storm
belies calm and quiet,
wispy clouds bounce in skies
bright with boundless blueness,
Southern summer surprise.

The day before a storm
promotes a sweet fragrance
blown by...

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Categories: stratus, environment, nature, sky, storm,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Tropical Rainforest
As the first man alive to be king of a tropical rainforest

I can guarantee this reign will be far from the shortest

What I'm trying to...

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Categories: stratus, girlfriend-boyfriend, happiness, imagination, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Clouds
Buoyant on the North west winds;
Shredded clouds expose a half moon eye.
An eye that stares cautiously at
The hyphens of cars below.

Stratus sunsets trace the highway,
That...

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Categories: stratus, life
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Looking Upward '82
I remembered a time in spring
                   ...

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Categories: stratus, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Last Masterpiece
As i look beyond the landscape of emotion
I suddenly feel the sides of my imperfection
Eyes with eyelashes that set sight of attraction
Suddenly i saw the...

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Categories: stratus, body, confidence, creation, deep,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs