Poles Apart

Polar bear at the north pole, floating on a lone ice floe, thinks to himself, 'What happened to my world, where did all the ice go?' If to the south pole he did depart, penguins to compare, would he then be, a well-traveled bipolar bear?
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September 18, 2026 at 7:45 PM
A delightful four-line comic rhyme: the jaunty couplets and conversational voice make the climate-theme premise feel light on its feet, while “well-traveled bipolar bear” lands as a wonderfully playful, nonsense-poetry punchline. Congratulations on your contest placement
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