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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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canopy uproots
lies upon the undergrowth...
breeding rookery

 © Harry J Horsman 2022...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Witness and see the conflicts mad,
Sad refugees flee from times bad.


War and terror as devils kill,
Shades of horror where evil steals.


Madness flings curse in broken...

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