Fire and Ice

Freezing cold
unbearable frost ridden cold
Finger numbing unforgiving cold
cold you could burn in
Cold that could bury you in ice
The kind of cold that bites
The kind of cold you fight
with weapons that most often fail
Cold that burn with a different flame
Freezing extremeties until they're lame
Killing cold the cold that maims
Everywhere the hell outside
Even the moments beacon hide
Yet fragile is the shelter inside
where cold creeps inwhen it decides
Snow has become the flames of fire
everywhere around us as it desires
And yet the oppisite of hells fires
but the same effect as God requires
This is a lesson about a place
while we have choices and our escapes
spring will come and winters erase
But what is there for this hellish race?
What is there when you can't escape?

Copyright © | Year Posted 2014



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Date: 5/26/2022 6:31:00 PM
“This is how the world will end not in fire but in ice!” So very nice, love this one, (looking to read more) always love the duality simplicity similarities in fire and ice. Good poem love the repetition. You can almost feel cold…
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Date: 3/2/2020 12:38:00 AM
Powerful poem. Love it
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Date: 8/14/2014 5:55:00 PM
This is a great poem. We will always have choices, we just have to know how to choose right. Thanks for sharing... Lucilla
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Date: 7/21/2014 8:19:00 PM
Love this poem, TS! It rocks with lots of fire and ice!
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Date: 2/14/2014 12:07:00 PM
A wonderful flow T S., I love hiding. LOL, I like this cold, but with different flare... You got it, hot & cold... Always... Thank you for being a friend. LINDA
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Date: 2/13/2014 8:11:00 AM
Very good rhythm and rhyme in this one about a great topic "While we have choices and escapes"..At some point we have no escape and no choice for our fate is sealed..Thanks for the visit to my page..Sara
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Date: 2/12/2014 9:20:00 PM
I would like to escape the cold right now. I'm currently bracing for the snow that is scheduled to hit us late Wednesday night. Reading your descriptive poem made me feel colder.
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Date: 2/12/2014 7:10:00 PM
This is great take on a harsh winter. I love this.....Tim
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Date: 2/12/2014 6:23:00 PM
I saw this and I just had to read it. i had thought of writing a poem of fire and ice, but mine would be very different. i understand where you are coming from. I lived up north for 38 years. We just have to accept whatever Nature brings. Thanks for sharing... Lucilla
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