Best Chill Poems

Cleaning out my refrigerator, an ice cube slides to the floor
startling the cat, and interrupting a locomotive of thought
that often tracks me down in a beam of  light---
Today it streams through a  window, where everything seems marred,
by doubt, and dust, crusts of ice...

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Against the velvet canvas of night the downy snow falls all around me. 
Silence deafening,falling upon my ears in this winter wonderland I see. 

The chill of winters breath places it's kiss upon rose petal skin so light. 
Whilst I stand 'neath tiny flakes and...

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December brings the snow and ice
Early morning frosts; the trees are bare
Stay inside, keep warm heed my advice. 

If you venture out you'll pay the price
I'm so snug inside without a care
December brings the snow and ice. 

The snow is falling it looks so nice
I...

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He almost said it, that one sweet word, but a moment lost it would not stay.
He reached for her hand, she lost in thought, pulled it back and looked away.
Was she the beauty he had married young, or an illusion from a fairy's joke?
Would the...

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Oh! How I despise dawn’s blushing optimism
and dried hydrangea blooms sepia skinned and papery thin.
Humdrum hands beat doldrums drum.

Why won’t the summer solstice light this darkness?
A gnawing hollow where my heart should be.
Where cinder clouds float in negative space
memories collect like nesting sparrows beneath eaves.

I...

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A winter’s chill has taken hold -
a grip that cannot be controlled.
And with it, creeping, comes a dread
which, having settled in my head,
has brought me back to things foretold. . . . 

to things I’d learned before the cold.
Long time before my growing old,
I could...

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It was the first part of September
As the leaves were just starting to turn
The bonfire shrank to just one ember
A fearful forecast she would discern

Yes, the hurricane season lived on
Although the seas were starting to cool
Bounty of trees now plucked – pecan
As children made their...

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Death waited
Sat patiently in the hallway
We all sat there with him
Looking at 
and not seeing the paintings on the wall
We took turns 
waiting, visiting, waiting
The hallway
Where tears stung our eyes
We cried together in that hallway
Why didn’t we notice death?
Maybe because he brought no flowers
Maybe he...

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Winter's chill breath clouded my windowpanes
Snowdrifts covered Autumn's shades of umber
I listened to music, composed in wistful strains
My family were all abed, snuggled in slumber 
Nostalgic tears fell; far too many to number

My sad thoughts were replaced by a smile
as I staunched the swell that...

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Seventeen skiffs and boats tethered 
In twos and threes on the river Thames 
With their canvas winter shrouds 
And rows of seagulls perched on each,
Almost perfectly aligned,
Heads towards honeysuckle skies 
Where low winter's sun declines,
Reflected in cold silver flow.
Close by them a solitary heron stands...

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View
atop
a mountain –
ageless, timeless –
seductive mistress with frigid fingers 
crisp, cool, caressing, chilling, corrupting.
Winter’s beauty,
stealing each
gelid
breath.


12/31/2020...

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Winter has a deadly chill
Whereas just six months prior
The earth felt like a blazing fire
Unbearable heat didn’t seem that sweet until
Our toes no longer we could feel
Bitterly bundled up, with long desire
For sunshine, causing skin to perspire.
But now all bundled in bed, street are still
Except...

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A simple chill
A silent glow
A land held still
By shackles of snow

The flakes in swarms
Approach the drift
The raging storm
Begins to lift

Though winter's wrath
Is cloaked in charms
Shoveled paths
leave weary arms

Bellowed and poked
The home fires flare
giving life to the smoke
that danced in mid air

Time passes slow
and the world...

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In the chilly hours of the graying gloaming,
silent shivers rise from the estuary.
Just before the waves churn in frothy foaming,
Goddess Moon approaches Her adversary.
Sun slinks away at Her approaching homing,
slowly shedding His cloak as Luminary.
She reigns all through the darkened and leaden night
until stubborn Sun...

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Meet the friendly capybara
Rodent large without a care, a
Chill companion, friend to all, for
Clearing any gloomy pall

Sitting still or hanging out, with
Capybara social clout, a
Being present in the now, who
Effortlessly lives the Tao

Showing up and just to be, in
Any opportunity, a
Doing by no action seen,...

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