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Frozen Shiver Shakes

Icebergs floated all around me – frozen is no place to safely flee. I fell down on an ice crystal, then I heard you whistle and felt myself turn towards bold so I could leave this place so cold. So many crevices and cracks. Frigid ice coated my back. A glacier's huge backhand flew our memories to slush land. As my shivers began to shake, I felt my knees tremble and quake. Love never knows its hold on tomorrow. Days are not warm laced against sorrow. Your repeat, sleety emotion will not ease glacial commotion. Frozen mist will not reinstall your flaming, toasty love recall. I bear your gift of numb fraught, that will thaw in icebergs not.

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Paige Hind

Date: 3/20/2025 8:44:00 PM

Deep poetry, and very beautiful

Daniel Henry Rodgers

Date: 3/17/2025 5:49:00 AM

Dear CayCay, I love how this one wraps itself around you like a cold wind, biting and relentless. I felt that there’s something so visceral in the way you capture not just the chill of loss, but the way it settles into the bones and how memory itself can turn to ice, refusing to thaw no matter how much warmth we try to summon. Very Lingering. Spring Blessings, My Dear Friend, Daniel

Victor Buhagiar

Date: 3/17/2025 3:58:00 AM

I used to love dancing...but not in a frozen mist. I prefer warmth.

David Crandall

Date: 3/16/2025 4:59:00 PM

Great phrases, I guess I'd agree with Love never knows its hold on tomorrow.

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 3/16/2025 4:52:00 PM

I really liked your effort with this difficult topic. Your mind is still so nimble, Caycay. I want to tell you something in soupmail. Hope you are getting my texts ??

Joe Dimino

Date: 3/16/2025 2:18:00 PM

Nothing more devastating than a heart grown cold. I hear ya, CayCay -- I've had my share. Well said.

CayCay Jennings
Date: 3/16/2025 2:32:00 PM

Thank you, Joe. If pain never put us on trial, we would never really appreciate our smiles (from one of my poems.) I think pain is God's way of making us call His name. Thank you, Joe. Blessings ... CayCay

Paula Goldsmith

Date: 3/16/2025 1:57:00 PM

What a write you have here. I enjoyed reading your "Frozen Shiver Shakes." "Good Luck" Have a blessed day writing away...........

CayCay Jennings
Date: 3/16/2025 2:07:00 PM

And what a message I have here! Thank you, Paula ... CayCay