Long Stratus Poems

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 birth cords sinuous 
sensing the ground   seeking the...

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2/6/21

Since the Jurassic
Time continually passes
Animals and people smoking or eating different grasses
Staying active
Instead of remaining passive
The population now massive
I roll around solo or among the masses
Seeing it crystal clear, or it's fogging up my glasses
In...

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I have waited for the New Age--that Tranelike return to my Mediterranean Sundance Always and Forever missing the  journey of the Caravansary of old.
Hence, Only Time and the touch of the Rio Ancho, its...

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If all dogs go to heaven I'm attend by the vision cardiac arrest 
I waken for the sonic A heed to the thought rhapsody, capture, lights shatter home Away from home 
I am sitting next...

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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 abound of cloud fantasies
a thousand ships of condensation dreams

Assorted sizes,...

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Dicot.

         Cirrus- 
            soil cracks,
           ...

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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 inferior 
Mr mirror man with a digi cam i access...

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It is not the case that Jesus ever physically rose from the dead,
Only that he was spoken of as alive afterwards by his followers, 
Because his offer of medical treatment to the poor stood, the...

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It is not the case that Jesus ever physically rose from the dead,
Only that he was spoken of as alive afterwards by his followers, 
Because his offer of medical treatment to the poor stood, the...

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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 say is my heart is the forest

The trees are the...

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I’m contemplating braces 
My belts don’t seem to work
They just don’t seem to get a grip
Now I’m of a certain girth 

I shop at Marks and Spencer’s 
I like their thermal vests 
I bought a...

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my curtain flickered furiously to the beat of an ever increasing new day
my hands all withered like a weather beaten out of season holiday
my eyes sunk down to the pit's of last night's cringe worthy...

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Autumn day ages slow
                               ...

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And it's black
There is a wave runnings of the White Snake 
The serpent flaming White Red Hots 
Stencils penciled in steep smoke rises up 
in the atmosphere over and beyond the mountainous hills
 Gathering molding...

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Bright stars complement the darken sky
Stratus clouds quivering in the distance about to cry
if this worlds made in God’s image I ask myself why is the sky about to cry

Maybe we haven’t lived up to...

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Clouds are droplets of water and ice,
some look ominous, some look nice-
Spending on how the sun reflects,
White, grey or black colors your eye will detect-
Clouds may be at any height above ground,
all different shapes -...

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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 mirror and stare at my own reflection.

I saw his mind...

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In a modern life that is risqué
Pot mentality that grew and grew
One rides upon spacious freeway
With an ungenerous point of view.

The stratus to reach, man’s destiny
A monument to a nation’s pride,
No power to ride, a...

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Said the cloud, I’ll grow and fill up the sky
I will cover the land below like a shroud
the day will  be dismal and gray
I’ll make it rain for I am a cloud.

I’ll call my...

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I have a harsh past but a bright future
I have seen death upon my eyes
and felt the need of nurture

I have been surrounded by lies 
that have covered nothing but the truth
I was blind and...

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Mass
liquid
condensed
in atmosphere
sky.

Cloud
color
from vapor
and refracted
light.

Four
classes
make up clouds
Low, Middle and
High.

More
exist
as plasma
and gas far from
sight.

Two
classes
stratus and
cumulus are
they.

The
stratus
layered, the
cumulus, pile
shaped.

High
clouds reach
far above
wispy, icy
faint.

Low
Clouds live
close to ground
in a foggy
taint. 

In
between
the middle
clouds, say moisture
soon.

The
last clouds
vertical
up-current, and
cool.

Clouds
can go
fast or slow
thunderstorm clouds
set,

a
speed of
60...

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Silent mornings...bright crystal light
filtered lukewarm and pale 
through long white stratus veils
gliding through an ancient void of neon blue
To our naked eyes...its chemicals mix unseen
confined to our sight's simple color scheme

On an endless road far...

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It just goes to follow, that the sun can not rise
If the darkness has not conceded its demise
But the night is a part of the birth of the day
Displaying nature’s art in a magnificent way

As...

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It hangs in the  clouds
   peeking between the blue white and gray
   holding back the sun in its nimbo-stratus shroud.
The clusters trace a line, puffy, dark and ominous
  ...

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The Sound of Home

The rugged moor top
grew shapeless hiding
within the grey shroud,
invisible steps
to endure in lieu.

The dense stratus
manipulates
the morning sun
losing the day.

Distant call,
tower clock
chimes the way.

On track 
soon home.

Safe.

 © Harry J Horsman 2019





I never...

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