Best Iceberg Poems

jagged meringue peaks
etched on steel blue frosted skies
perilous splendor


Liz Reilly...

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This is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
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Love,
Is that a word, 
Or the foundation of all mountains of speeches? 
Is love a whisper or an ejaculation? 
A prayer, or a plea? 
Why...

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They say it's impossible to count the water drops in the ocean - well I say I can when I look at you..
They say that...

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let me pause 
slow down a minute
and look inward
to adjust my lens

there’s more to life than
operating in react mode

let me pause to ask 
the real...

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On a fine April day, set out in the great cruise ship, Titanic,
Into the pelagic waters of Atlantic, with the weather alluringly sweet.
Plush it was...

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Yesterday.
My life was a constant puzzle, 
I never knew how to solve it.
My life faded and dimmed 
at the age of six, 
when abused sexually.
My...

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His:

He played softly on (Les Paul Strings) (The Day That He Returned Home) from the war. (One 
More Mile) to go, then he will be...

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I entered a room
and saw familiar strangers
and knew in an instant
they were me: past lives
made living flesh again.

I saw the fat baby, 38
pounds at one...

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Deep down below in the shadowy sea
a solitary mermaid hides herself from the human eye.
She spends her days swimming amongst the majestic whales,
and playing with...

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WHERE FROZEN EMBERS STILL BURN

When will periwinkle dreams entwine with my lifesong?
  deadly winter has blanket me? [Long, ah! so long...]
Has bloody ferns swirl...

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Part 1: FORE SIBERIAN FATE

silk wings wet -
angel on the lake.
starlight glitter
separates from

the golden wheat.
her docile hair,
prophecy of ice.

winter pink,
pinched cheeks.
ice skate scrapes -
flecks of...

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The Titanic played its music
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She leaves Southampton
This Titanic ship
Her maiden voyage
New York trip
 
Channel crossings to Cherbourg, France
To Queenstown in Ireland
Where passengers dance
To some, a new life awaits
The future...

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Jealous are my delusions; 
demons possessive and breathing 
with persistence personified — myself
in woes and throes of sorrow
seeing not so much as a sky-high tender...

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