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Best Gelid Poems

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Premium Member December Magic
Frost crisped, the lawn remained
beneath the frozen dew.
Water dripped to ice as gutters drained.
The cardinal bids the day adieu;
the winter storm has left a gelid...

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Categories: gelid, nature,
Form: Quintain (English)



Premium Member Autumnal
In depth of woods how autumn dazzles, swirling beauty of ornate décor,
Waltzing with ochre hickory, birch; whirling flaxen moods of sycamore,
Gracing my view upon blazing...

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Categories: gelid, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Golden Leaves of Autumn Delight
Golden leaves of autumn delight
Where season flaunts hints of romance
Blazing passions of smitten sight
As themes chromatic swirl and dance.

Charming dreams of romantic eyes
Golden leaves of...

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Categories: gelid, autumn, imagery,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member Desperate Hope
While gelid breezes of winter, quiver emotions of decaying rays,
And arc of horizon cedes to dusk, evoking grimace of malaise,
Casting shadows tenebrous, shrouding glimmer of...

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Categories: gelid, hope, inspiration, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Winter Magic
Sculpting tinges periwinkle, eventide paints on arc of ruby skies,
Sunset dreams of freezing eve, longing warmth of moonrise;
As realms gelid waltz, where light-beams with shadows...

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Categories: gelid, imagery, winter,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Day Full of Snow
Oh, how I long, day full of snow
When dawns in gelid breezes moan
And nights anguish in frozen glow,
Now that autumn has left its throne.

As dull...

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Categories: gelid, autumn, snow, winter,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member Groundhog Day
This February will not usher spring,
wisteria like grapes hung on their roods;
more pewter shadows does the season bring.
Now I've misplaced all the beatitudes

to lambent grasses...

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Categories: gelid, nature, winter,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member I Know a Place
Between frosty cobalt-cliffs, cruise-ship hesitates to pause,
Amidst ice sculptures echoing cheers of spirited applause,
Mesmerizing enthralled sights evincing awe-struck trance,
Lauding vast gelid expanse, hypnotizing eyes of...

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Categories: gelid, beautiful, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Life Encounters Opaque Space
When gusty winds blow, riling my troubled dawn in gelid woes
Squall of my throes dissipates in scented whiffs of budding rose.

As brazen fog shrouds mind,...

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Categories: gelid, angst, endurance, feelings,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Dogwood
The blood and lapis daylight sets
in ether. How the mind resets
brutality of winter chill
with February's codicil;
what gossamer a dream begets.

I hear the crickets in the...

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Categories: gelid, dream, imagery, nature, tree,
Form: Quintilla
Melting Your Frozen Heart
Melting your frozen heart.


Why do you refuse to feel my love?

Why has your heart grown cold?

It´s so cold it is frozen solid, 

beating ever so...

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Categories: gelid, angst, devotion, emotions, fire,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Renewal
It was the feathered purple of a blossoming iris,
kissing the laden air
with trembling lips.
I was awakened by its fragrance,
the newness of its ancient story,
told yet...

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Categories: gelid, spring,
Form: Free verse
Holocaust's Nameless Victims
Bright yellow badges proclaimed their faith
Paraded like nameless cattle
Counted and cooped as poultry
Numb and gelid they lay
Only thing alive
Was A desire
For a smooth
Kiss of
Death

Written On:04/24/2017
Contest:'Form...

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Categories: gelid, holocaust,
Form: Nonet
Raptor Dance
The sky screams, 
air is thick. 
Seconds like days, 
years 'tween each tick. 

Tit for tat the raptors dance. 
Each step wounds, talons like bayonets.
Earth...

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Categories: gelid, emotions, home, metaphor, sad,
Form: Lyric
Est'Bel Strolls
Urges ushered Est’bel out of her abode –
a cottage cobbled together from cobwebs and clapboard – 
and she scuttled forth,
her nesty hair tousled
by a leaf-laced...

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Categories: gelid, magic, moon, night, woman,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs