Short Stratum Poems

Take your passion and make it happen
Music can take you to the highest stratum
Right from the start
Takes hold of your heart
Irene Cara in Flashdance, upper echelon

For SO...

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His child, living long enough to have learned this truth....
Its been no pleasure cruise nor was such her world, meant 
To be their traveler time's pilgrims; transfiguration's stretched tightly
Elijah, these frames the sojourner's acrobatic feats as another's, stratum ?
Critical acclaim crossing love's Niagara Falls; electrotherapy armada's high tides....

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Shaken like stars strewn                                                                                                                                                  the spreading of snow stratum                                                                                                                                          upon the this globe...

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The rugged moor top
grew shapeless,
eternal stratum
hiding
within the
greyish shroud,
that cloaked
every enduring
contour.

The dense stratus
began to manipulate
the daylight,
while encircling
shadows
cast reflective
illusions
on shallow
murky pools.

Obedient trees recoil
in stark awareness
while inspiring to honour
the insensitive violation,
bowing,
waving in verve respect
as if only
to appease
the impending tempest…

© Harry J Horsman  1991...

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Beauty of nature is in its dictum.
The world is being stratified,
here life and plants are as the guide,
charming consensus of the stratum.

Hushing tones of the swinging pines,
hikers often do approach,
how the flowers claim for touch -
miscellaneous layers, medley signs.

Transparent water of streams and ponds,
human nature making bonds,
entwined, enchanted – gazing.

From the distance looks the deer
on exhausted mountaineer –
sheep grassland biome are grazing....

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In deep specks, the sea flashlight sways.
sapphire flecks, and azure splashing.
Screes’ speckled satins.

Sadness fluid in the bowed beldam.
sprinkle its stretch into the shards
as her wings curled in dismay.

She had morphed into a mountainous waterfall.
a stratum full of opal swords clasped her down.
similar to a thumbprint

Gloved and cloaked in a conundrum
While roaming, she spoke a light
of transforming stone into a mist

Written: November 27, 2022...

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