Best Sleet Poems

I translated "sleet"

 in ten different languages

cold gets through my bones





7/28/2015...

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Little Birdie in the rain, 
will you hide ‘til it starts to wane?

Little Birdie in the snow,
do you have a warm place to go?

Little Birdie in the heat,
do you know of a cool retreat?

Little Birdie in the cloud,
do you forever stand up proud?

Little Birdie in the sleet,
will you hide underneath a sheet?

Little Birdie in the...

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A crack in the night’s deep silence
thundering and blinding!
I stop to listen and watch
the falling daggers of ice,
snapping limbs, and shivering snow
dumping in clumps from shaken trees.
I slog on in search of shelter,
a windbreak from the bursting gusts.

Freezing flurries bite my face
tingling and burning with the cold.
Sleet descends in sheets of ice
blanketing the earth while
wild...

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Each time might be the last,
The last I see your face, 
Sad and smiling eyes; the last
Your lips mouthing promises, 
Goodbyes, eager to go, 
Certain of return, sure of this place.

It's different when you're old. 
Blossoms treasured that may for you
Never come again, a song of birds,
A patterning of stars,
Each moment bursts on consciousness
And burns...

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Thunder growls in the distance herald storms;
Dark clouds sneaking across sky
They’re up to no good....

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 Bo-Peep Cannot  Sleep

Poor Little Bo-Peep can't drift off to sleep 
Being far too excited to even count sheep 
Can't wait can she, to wake up and see 
The prezzies that Santa's left under the tree. 

There's only a few more nights left to go
Till Santa arrives with a loud 'Ho! Ho! Ho! ...

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SLEET NOT RAIN 

not nice ice
flecks from sky
Winter wonderland sass
lords - a - leaping
hot to cold
way too fast

12/6/2017...

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Though rain in the spring might be sweet,
Something flowers and bushes all greet,
In the winter what falls
Is what hardly enthralls,
But instead is that stuff known as sleet.

It makes all the cars slip and slide
And for people who venture outside,
We get pelted with ice,
Which is not very nice
And we couldn’t walk fast if we tried.

Without all...

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February is a fascinating gateway to cool hand crispy, fooling us yearly. 
Appearing yearly overnight, when we are dreaming of warmer things.
Covering the earth with her glistening white beauty, knowing we will be mesmerized.
And we are enthralled by her crispy, clean looking white-sheet pureness.

We wake up googly-eyed, yelling for others to get up 
and see...

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Trying to steer a car on snow 
Is something I would rather not know
How to do, for it cannot be done
It is all kinds of weird, none of it fun.

If you have ever bowled in a lane,
Let me make this rather plain.
Your car is like a bowling ball.
Traveling into a gutter, down deep and all.

You...

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A light breeze falls soft
whispering a quiet faith
raining kindness breath
along the shadow's caress
dancing with hues of sweet grace





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May 29, 2021

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Winter Sleet
2/23/2022
Miracle Man

Buckshot pellets from the sky,
many thinking I’m the bulls-eye.
Frigid cold they sting my skin,
should I be out, or have stayed in.

Could be enjoying a burning log,
but I’m here feeding a poor stray dog.
I’ll get her inside where its warm,
It appears her bees soon will swarm.
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We have not had a full week at school for seven weeks.
Our students are pumped, not realizing maybe...

We will be going to school until the cows come home.
Yes, I know it is an Iowa expression, 
Being from Iowa, I feel I can use it.  Moo. Moo.

I am doing my mooing now, 
Because in the...

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falling snow tricks mind 
rain and snow become wet sleet 
rainstorm not snow storm...

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