The Shape of Water- Glaciers Speak

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~11th Place~
Contest: The Shape Of Water
Sponsor: Craig Cornish
Judged: 06/25/2021

Revised from a former poem
posted 04/25/2016

For The Contest, "Retrospective 2024"
Sponsor, Brian Strand

Here they are before me, 
surreal in the dazzling morning sun.
Against clear skies of brilliant blue,
these tall glaciers of Alaskan ice,
stand heavenly before my eyes.

Their marbled, glistening whites- 
arcane crevices and jagged peaks,
stir visions of cold, ghost-like forms 
that glare at me in this mysterious bay 
of murmurous creaks and moans.

These huge shapes of water speak,
like eerie, moving forms, 
in corridors that shift and moan- 
and with their loud sonorous wails,
give birth- calving chunks that fall.

With an abrupt, roaring explosion, 
all at once, it starts- the large, 
calved segment plummets to the sea.
These exotic glaciers live and speak- 
more than the eye can see.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2021



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Date: 1/20/2025 4:52:00 AM
Congratulations on your winning work. Way to go. Sara K
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Date: 1/3/2025 5:49:00 PM
Dear Sandra, you capture the voice and the language of glaciers with dramatic poetic finesse. I enjoyed hearing their "murmurous creaks and moans" through the power of your imagery. Congratulations for your success in Brian's contest. Warmest wishes.. ~Susan
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Date: 12/31/2024 2:31:00 AM
Wow! Congrats. Thanks for sharing this. May God bless you with a prosperous New Year.
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Date: 6/13/2021 9:36:00 AM
exceptional imagery and i love your take on the shape of water, sadly many glaciers are being eroded away with climate change, it is such a worry: good luck in the contest:-) hugs Jan xxx
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