Short Morningtide Poems

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Alert we wake to a morningtide

Bright-eyed inside, when it rains noontide

We downed a few

All drunk we knew

We danced to wrong homes at eveningtide...

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cernuous sunflower

the monk bent over in prayer

his morningtide vigil, set eyes

until the bell straightens

his curvature, with breathless warmth


5/18/2019
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Entered in Brian Strand’s Contest

Cernuous - of a plant inclining or nodding...

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Morningtide reverberates, the songstress calls,
buoyant curlews play in oceans of copious grass,
wave after wave shattering against dry stone walls,
meadows dance the rhythm of the farmers weatherglass,
implementing the orchestration from moortop squalls.

 © Harry J Horsman 2020...

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deep in thoughts
are memories of you
lodestone of dreams
that waft on by
like a log in river
tossed about
spiraling
in and out
of current
wandering
through the deep
dark depths
of the a journey
unknown
only resting
in the consciousness 
of morningtide
awaiting
to be swept
away again
in the depths
of dreams

)9/03/2021...

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