Short Uproots Poems

canopy uproots
lies upon the undergrowth...
breeding rookery

 © Harry J Horsman 2022...

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Artificial heart
     not genuine

   Artificial intelligence
     uproots the divine...

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the derecho

    winds whipping cruelly
   beautiful old oak uproots
               ***
     calm after the storm...

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Her words like smoke,
Slithered like a phantom into my ears.
Forcing my eyes to close,
To the surroundings of a darkened melody.
Melodies which tempt me to kiss,
These Shattered glasses of toxic lips.
Lips which only uproots my soul,
Unto the violence of war and,
Unto the hands of which that is most toxic.
Ignorance...

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What the wind will uproots
from the window of the heart
if the moon light faded!  
 
What will scare the darkness
when the seasons announce 
their mourning in the fall! 
Or when insomnia dwells eyes of the night 
And when the absence turns me
to a winter that never die! 
 
What the wind will uproots from the emptiness?...

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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 life runs,
While my footsteps watching me
Lest to uproots me, the whirlwind'.

Necklace on my night's neck
But I don't know how,
To recline aches, on my dream!


Written by © Fatima Nusairat


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He peers into his mind
for the once planted, 
the once loved,
the still flowering, 
the motley,
the wilderness blooms.

Without this retrospection
his mind would be a ramshackle plot,
so he tends to it, 
even the briers and thorns.

Memory nourishes
flourishes from the seeding,
it also dead-heads and uproots.

There are many ways to garden....

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A dime of orbed light
Hangs in water from a limb
Winter cries for spring

She has grown white haired
And soft, melting in the sun
Love uproots our fear.

The wind chisels flesh
My canvas shivers with light
Stars have twinkling eyes.

Change is a new bud
Carousing on a warm sprig
Tongues panting to paint

The sky cloudless, soft
As flakes in the arms of leaves
Brown on barren ground....

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Like a strand of breath,
Caught on the lips of the wind
That can be had but not kept,
Like a dream in the night,
Wandering the wary paths of sleep,
True, but donned in illusion,
Are you, man in the wind.

Far away, from a far,
Your shadow weaves a storm
That leaves no reason standing.
From within me
Your presence ignites a furnace
That uproots resistance by the mile.
In my memory you sometimes sway,
But never fall, man in the wind....

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Like a strand of breath,
Caught on the lips of the wind
That can be had but not kept,
Like a dream in the night,
Wandering the wary paths of sleep,
True, but donned in illusion,
Are you, man in the wind.

Far away, from a far,
Your shadow weaves a storm
That leaves no reason standing.
From within me
Your presence ignites a furnace
That uproots resistance by the mile.
In my memory you sometimes sway,
But never fall, man in the wind....

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Love, an atom,
destroys our life.

Love, a poison,
carries our death.

Love, a storm,
uproots our peace.

Yet I am ready
to die for love.
What a tragedy,
I die for love!

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Spanish Version

Amor

Amor, un atomo,
Destruye nuestra vida.

Amor, un veneno,
nos conduce a la muerte.

Amor, una tormenta,
Desarraiga nuestra paz.

Sin embargo estoy listo
para morir por amor.
Que tragedia,
Morir por amor


Translator: Alma Lorena Lopez Velazquez...

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Lost in a maze of diversity,
Where answers often seem
Confused and complex.
As momentum has engulfed
The basics, creating layers
To confound any cortex.

The forgetfulness seldom goes
Perpetual, as genius eventually
Discovers the day.
When it strips away the waste
And the chaff, & simply discards
It to throw away.

Recalling that long-lost pleasure,
Easily uproots
Any unwanted pain.
As simplicity requires little 
Effort, and in general, is
Far less to explain....

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