Best Frostbite Poems

some people are
  as cruel as a cold
 winter day

 — senryu



Berteena
Wild Orchid Haiku

13 February, 2019...

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I'm cursed by my own experience, 
A compendium of wisdom with its own consequence, 
Innocence non-existent if otherwise frail, 
A heart that went through the sea and stopped its sail

I've completed a certain journey, 
A journey only finished by my body, 
My heart and soul...

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I have lived way to long
this world has but a strong grip on me
I am a combination
of love and hate
stirred vigorously
the chain reaction left me 
unable to feel remorse for all my actions
as of late
I hate being numb
unable to empathize with your pain
it is but...

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Summer
Brutal, humid
Grilling, camping, hiking
Picnics, vacations, holidays, traditions
Sleighing, shivering, celebrating
Gentle, fresh
Winter


Contest: Spring or Summer Diamante Poem Poetry Contest
Form: Diamante
Sponsor: Caren Krutsinger
Written: April 25, 2021...

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A winter day 
you came to school
red faced and crying
your curly hair all ablow
wringing your red red hands
late
rode your bike
tears and frostbite

Forbidden to talk I saw
 teacher
scold you in the hallway
while your eyes dripped
over the pain in your face
your hands bent as if they would
forever...

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The snow crunches under my toes.
I feel like Frosty, wrapped up and poofy yet bitterly cold.
Cracking ice, frozen breath, my nose turns a painful pink.
I scoop up snow without gloves,
To examine each individuality...
My life-long curiousity with Wilson A. Bently's science.
My fingers tighten and prickle with...

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A delicate flower just broke
and no one would ever know
A day of celebration
is getting eaten by the cold

I gave out my trust
it has been returned
under double-lock-and-key
the day just gets colder

As night time falls
we will set
if she can survive the night
or forever suffer from frostbite...

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    frozen lake steaming
    winter in Chicagoland
    barren tees dreaming


     September 29, 2020
         8:45pm PST


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I SHUDDER
IN THIS FRIGID SKIN
I AM FROSTY
CRYSTAL TO THE MARROW
THIS PIERCING WINTER
I SPEND
WITHOUT YOU
I SHIVER
DRIFTING INTO
THE BLEAK WHITE
BITTER, RAW
STARVED FOR YOUR WARMTH
IN THE DEPTHS
OF THIS BINDING COLD....

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In the deep bowels of winter
coldness shocks the system
all fauna and floral devoid
of any warmth to survive
in deep freeze weather

Cold allows nothing to melt
throwing hot water in air
will turn it into air crystals 
before hitting the ground
In the deep bowels of winter.

Your breath becomes short
In...

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Have you ever watched the
snow falling;
when every flake is coming 
towards you in slow
motion?
It must be attracted
to the warmth of your
skin or maybe
the sound of your
laugh.
Unless that’s just me.

Crisp flakes with
real definition carved
from harshing cold
swindle around
the cold that cut me:
you there, standing there, smiling.

If you...

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Moonshine slips on ice
Silver stars glow despite snow
Frost bitten fingers...

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I am often intimidated by certain thoughts.
Whether or not I am to think the things I think.


Over by the nightstand where dust gathers against the shade.
It's been months since I opened my blinds.
Rather yet pretend that you'd still remember the last time it snowed.


The things...

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Queen Bess's Uniform

We didn’t want the frostbite
We didn’t want the burns
We didn’t want to leave our homes
And families far astern.
We didn’t like the future
As we grimly sailed away
But we wore Queen Bess’s Uniform
And did it anyway.

We didn’t want the battle
Or the bayonets at night
We didn’t...

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You may shoot a round of golf with your goofy neighbor Rolf,
or smack handballs 'round until your fingers bleed.
You may pump your mountain bike up the peak named after Pike,
and I'm sure we'll all applaud the mighty deed.

You may hunt the antlered moose, you may...

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