Short Slipstream Poems

the fireplace
to see where life once reigned supreme,
the fireplace
reminds one of death, empty space,
a glance upon ash, one’s esteem
here one day within life’s slipstream
the fireplace.

© Harry J Horsman  2012...

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Thunder clouds retreat
    empty of tears
    devastation finally spent.
The bloody remains of your
forgery
slipstream down the gutters.
    So clean
    I thought was your heart.
Secrets held so close
    scatter like confetti
upon an angry wind.
Sewers scream with
    your arrival....

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She floats on an ebb-tide
in the slipstream of life
and all her ambitions
are but transient dreams
which mark the divide
between nature
and nurture
while downstream
the essence of summer
always just out of reach
lies waiting

At the turn of the tide
she will leave behind
the wistful sighs
the sorrowful eyes
to embrace once more
the adventure called Life
where, upstream
lie strength and beauty
and in the distance
Home...

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