Ghairo Daniels Poet Spoken Word

ICE !

ICE ! How you challenge humankind with beauty frozen in idyllic simplicity 
driving our boundaries towards 
agelessly created cracking glaciers, now 
                                                threatened         
testing humanity’s skill to reach molten glass
                                                              within
embalming iced mysteries where lie untold Time 
           ancient mammals ___with ichthyoids…

ICE ! Thin or thick, white you mirror freeze idle or ignoble unpredictabilities in underground
                            ice-blue crystal water serene
   taxing mortal endurance unnegotiated ~
 God’s slippery ice-caps immortal you convey           stilled, or in flickering flourishing patterns
          awed we gaze in speechless wonder at what -40 to -80 degrees manifest as 
                                          exquisite extremities 

Plunging icicle Arctic or Antarctic identities we           ogle astounding pristine vistas of ice falls  
fields sub-zero in salient sentience, blindingly pearly ideograms of origination, priceless ___
 
                          geometric formations iconic 
igniting visionary imaginations into polar bear, walrus, yak, Nenet and Inuit vaporous          
                                          iceblink echoes 

ICE ! From which primitive Ice Age has your    colossal sheets and cliffs travelled to forge     astounding wealth of oil and gas that Earthlings now negotiate about, when it belongs to none but YoU to regulate or offer
                 as icosahedrons imagos,       
                 if    you    p l e a s e …
 
How can Homo-sapiens  HoPe  to comprehend the stewardship of fragile ecosystems where you abide ~ polar deserts, tundras or Siberian vistas  spectacularly 
                 illustrious…?! 

we gawk as ice floats rip unwanted propellers across biting waters where insatiable tourists  
   gape at red reindeer bloody rectums                            
      embellishing hiemal floors ghostly 

ICE ! Your Ages will come and  c r o s s millenniums’ cycles illuminated as Gaia’s orbits reflect your light in borealis’ ~ forever will you challenge humanity to co-operate with your stupefying power of clear frozen artistry
              testing our frostbitten sanity
 titanically stretching civilization's limits 
                            to reach that of    

                   G O D S C A P E S 

I M M A N E N T L Y    I M M A C U L A T E L Y 
 
                        I  C  E  D  !

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Rachel Treacher March 10, 2026 at 11:13 PM So much imagery flowing through this! I just kept on reading and then re-reading. Ghairo Daniels March 11, 2026 at 2:29 AM ThkU for reading, Rachel. I liked this one too, but it didn’t place for the Contest I did it for. Sending light. X

Paige Hind December 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM Wow, Ghairo. So much imagery and it almost sounds like you're crying these words out for us to hear!! Good job ! I have been busy with Christmas so I am just now reading your work. <3 Ghairo Daniels December 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM ThkU for read Paige. I trust you had a joyful Christmas. I liked this Spoken Word too. Not sure why didn’t get a placing ~ must be system’s pre-arranged ranking. Enjoy last of challenging ‘25. Hoorah !