Best Thaw Poems

Winter has cast its strangling hold inside and outside.
The joys I have known are gone.
Cold winds blow bleak and harsh.
The flowers in my garden have wilted and withered.
All things sweet have passed and flown away.
Flakes of snow, layer on layer, lie piled within,
And harden as...

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spring thaw
the ice breaks-
into song...

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THAW     AT    CROWSNEST     PASS  

Huge mountains massed and  cliffs  sheer.  It’s  March
And endless  blue  sky  cold is held back by the Chinook arch,
Snowy prairies rolling into...

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Detached from reality
He gazes haughtily
From the cold aloofness
Of his desolate pinnacle...
Far below
Dressed in vivid green and mauve
She patiently waits
Yearning to catch his wandering eye.

His face is stone cold, snow white
And yet he seems to notice me
A fledgling meadow
Needing sustenance to survive...
May passion's fire grow to...

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Detached from reality
He gazes haughtily
From the cold aloofness
Of his desolate pinnacle...
Far below
Dressed in vivid green and mauve
She patiently waits
Yearning to catch his wandering eye.

His face is stone cold, snow white
And yet he seems to notice me
A fledgling meadow
Needing sustenance to survive...
May passion's fire grow to...

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JANUARY THAW

the freeze is over
gods given up hot cocoa
all nature’s things weep

the freeze has ended
sun struck branches are dripping
nut hunt thaw is on

the freeze has ended
temperature 33
icicles crying

the freeze has ended
and foolish thoughts turn to spring
winter gods chuckle...

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tiny drops of water cut through
 folds of refuse
 laying dormant in the 
crest of spring 
where fissures of melting ice
retreat.

I lay sprawled against the top sheet 
Eyes fixed on the tempered glass 
before me 
drawing circles with the 
heat from my breath.

The yellow light,...

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The bright sun shines
  on the lawn, newly thawed.
By this beautiful day
  I am humbled and awed.

Spring is still several
  weeks from today.
The bite in the air says
 Winter's not gone away.

Birds are flittering
  through trees of green
and if this is...

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Drip...Drip...Drip

Slowly---Too Slowly

The melt begins

hour by hour...day by day

warmth knocking to come in

peeling off the ice...piece by piece

thawing...layer by layer

exposing a fertile ground

starting fresh...starting anew

planting the seeds

nurturing it with love

growing stronger and stronger

fresh spring feelings blossoming in full bloom 

creating a brand new world...

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skaters slide on ice

white mountains rise behind lake...

ducks long for spring thaw



Entry for Michael Falotico's "An Haiku from Your Window" contest
by Diane Locksley...

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SPRING THAW

what a sorry sight
the poor drowned grass muddied o’er
dirty snow with tracks
but the skies are thankful for
a chance to the earth restore

and the animals
seem to walk with quicker step
breathing earth’s freshness
are aware but not pensive
accepting nature’s goodness...

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Sometimes I slip 
slip to that world of numb smiles,
flavourless fruit,
damp emotion--
words so watered with the heart's blood
they weigh like anchors down my chest.

The food suddenly tasteless,
colour lacks its lustre,
and a frost 
crystalizes along my veins 
to the centre of my eyes.

Then the thaw is...

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I was cold,
callous, sometimes mean.
Keeping my feelings unseen
in the deep freeze of winter.
This shield of ice no one could splinter.

Why would a man show his heart,
something no one saw,
feelings nothing but a flaw.

In the middle of this life.
You appeared walking in the door,
lit up the...

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Permafrost upon the boughs,
in a glistening diamond wood;
where the water meets the Terra,
thin sheets in semi-melt
perform a slow ballet.
...

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