Best Uproots Poems

When it left the Arctic it was as a wild angry wind
that stormed its way across the ice bound Arctic ocean.
Blowing the snow clad icebergs and whipping up the ocean.
As it crossed Alaska and into Canada it had gentled
now it played games with leaves and...

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The gifted house and the ghost of his Grandmother trapped him. Her presence clung with the leftover nicotine to the walls of every room. A childless marriage and a rancid divorce left its bile in the scum atop the kitchen counters—rust-rings on the bathroom’s porcelain....

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I can hear the silence again
I can take back the time to think, to feel, to just 
breathe.
I have held out my hand to slow down time
and I have floated back down to myself
returned to my body for a while, you see;
I am here just...

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One flower almost gray
but visibly not

Brushed by a breeze on
concrete wet

Emerged from a crevasse
along the corner

Forced to hold on to its
limited yellow

Open to suggestion 

More than several
shapes take hold

On a distant wall of
wind emerged tornadoes

Spun in favor of the
days rotation

Coming in from the west

At a...

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Artificial heart
     not genuine

   Artificial intelligence
     uproots the divine...

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Written: January 19, 2024
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Love swells as a glossy plum
Love is a heavenly amethyst duet
Lambent love, a luscious lake of lulls,
Love is the genesis
of all creation sequined,
fulcrum fern,
of our symbiotic...

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Perfection is not seen in man but your perfection 
Is beyond precious stones
Only the sun and the moon knows how far you climbed
To get Me down. 
Life could have been incomplete in your absence. 
You had no silver or jewels to offer
When I needed, but...

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Teachers are the jewels of the world
More precious than silver or gold
A teacher, indeed, is wiser than a sage;
They fill our curious minds with knowledge.

They teach us to keep on working hard
Not just to make an impression or receive an award,
But in the hope that...

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Pain is the sharp feeling of steel against skin. Red rain sprayed across cobblestone tiles fills the air with that rancid metallic scent. Bleeding from the gut that now red river floods the streets.

Pain is that empty feeling in the very depths of the soul....

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canopy uproots
lies upon the undergrowth...
breeding rookery

 © Harry J Horsman 2022...

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Necklace on my night's neck
From a star and a thousand - star

Dream on my pillow's face _
From a thousand wish and seed

I run, as my life runs,
While my footsteps watching me
Lest to uproots me, the whirlwind'.

Necklace on my night's neck
But I don't know how,
To recline...

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Hurricane 5

One flower almost gray but visibly not
Brushed by a breeze along the corner
Open to suggestions
In concrete wetness 
More than several shapes take hold
Spin in 
In Place
And at turns to be made left or right of reason
As gray turns to black
Pressure rises
Barometers break
They can’t seize...

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I cringe to see your delicious tears trickle thus
And your emotions foul as our ties get worse,
I wish we both lived in some idyllic utopian land
Where things obeyed the whip of some magic wand.

There, I would not hold a grudge against my only love;
For there...

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Mantle--a fluid shelf that cradles all existence;
Soil--a table that nurtures all subsistence
Flora--a cultivated canvas that neutralizes resistance;
Fauna--a habituated benefactor of indulgence.

Wind--a mysterious force of ambivalence,
Dispersing seed and spore with diligence.
Fondling cloak that cools with benevolence;
Powerful menace that uproots with violence.

Fire, generative force imbuing hearth with...

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Why so many must die?
Disparity…not death’s fault;
Death loves all people…

The truth has its ways,
Be careful how you respond;
Bigotry explodes!

Together…we die,
Together, we live apart;
To gather…denied…

Covid-19 kills,
But it’s not the enemy;
The news reveals…who…

Unvarnished truth…: shines;
Varnished lies reflect no light:
Only the liar…

Let’s not be dismayed,
This crucifixion shall end;
Resurrection...

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