Snow Bear Poems

You come to me, palpable,
The way a candle flickers
When the air is stirred,
A vague mirage, a sense
Of metaphysical existence
But here, nevertheless,
A wondering sensation one never...

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Polar Bear

White on white, barely seen,
Its senses aroused and keen.
The legs move cautiously,
And paws touch snow softly;
The chionophile mills, then stills.

And breathes intermittently,
While its heart...

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The idea of Christmas snow in Michigan is replaced with fog
Hot breath exhaled to cold lollipop trees
My blurry life-sized polar bear salutes through the front...

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I have seen pictures of friends on Alaska cruise,
The Denali landscape looked so stark, no hues.
No frozen or floating icebergs, no polar bears catching the...

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In my dreams, sitting by the fire, listening
To the sigh of winter’s whispering
Just beyond the window, a mystery
Breathing laughter through the heavens
In stars, shimmering messily,...

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Brown bear moved to Alaska to play in the snow.
You will see him from time to time, said my cousin Moe.
He does not blend in...

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Glitter bear found something marvelous in the snow.
It was a find that few other bears would ever know.
It was a string of colored lights and...

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Pink blizzard bear is the one to watch for sure.
He is standing in the snowstorm with snowflakes pure.
We see him out there with his calm...

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She drops from the sky when the right clouds are formed.
There is no announcement, not a sound of an angel’s horn.
She arrives with her snow...

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The full moon and milky snow illuminate the nighttime landscape I found myself lost on the mountain. 

   I have to make a...

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Just before Christmas 2021
A historic wind storm
Setting a new norm
Swept across us all

Continental Divide sigh
I told you so

Tornadoes spun from Minnesota snow
Blew out a Kentucky...

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The leaves had fallen weeks ago, the trees were standing bare,
As I would sit and watch the snow drift gently through the air.

Just beyond the...

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Many years ago this very day
An angel celebrated her birth
She had come to see me once in a dream
But I knew not her existence on...

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t'was winter and the lively knights
did wither and quibble long the bow
because they had had frothy troughs
and they were  horses as you know
 
a...

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A menagerie of puppies
were way too polite
They knocked on the door
With nearly no delight.

Can we use your driveway
For our annual grizzly bear dance?
I said, “Most...

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