melting glaciers
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down the mountain side
glaciers calving in meltdown ~
sweltering planet...
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Categories:
calving, environment,
Form: Haiku
I Can Only Imagine How N'Ice E-Z Floe
...I can only imagine how n'ice e-z floe...
Tubby in the calving throes
breaking free and clear
shepherding, milking, and honing
rambunctious as bovine bris
versus being stymied courtesy
cow ...
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Categories:
calving, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To Alaska
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Of all the places I set forth to see,
Alaska is the one I love the best.
The pristine ambiance of white, for me,
presents a calmness of a vision blest.
Alaska, with its rugged landscape...
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Categories:
calving, appreciation, beautiful, tribute, vacation,
Form: Ode
Doctor Pol
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Doctor Pol is a vet on TV
who resolves calving plights easily!
With his hands, puller tool
and his knowledge to rule-
baby cows are born live- breezily!
April 1, 2022
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Categories:
calving, animal, birth, tribute,
Form: Limerick
The Shape of Water- Glaciers Speak
...Here they are before me,
surreal in the dazzling morning sun.
Against clear skies of brilliant blue,
these tall glaciers of Alaskan ice,
stand heavenly before my eyes.
Their marbled, glisteni...
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Categories:
calving, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse
A First of Spring
...Always unexpected, spring arrives.
Water and warm spring air raises grass
On hills before the sheep and llamas graze.
Rain falls and tries to glaze fields of yellow hay
Stippled by the husbande...
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Categories:
calving, image, nature, spring, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Mother Earth Speaks
...“Mother Earth Speaks”
From the east she awakens
Her nightly slumber aroused
Splashing her face
With thundering waves
Her eyes open to
Snow covered peaks
Valleys rich with green
Forests filled...
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Categories:
calving, earth day, nature,
Form: Free verse
Ice Krispies
...We approached the Hubbard Glacier,
More than seventy miles long,
And we watched it calve and listened
To its snap-pop-crackle song.
As chunks of ice broke free and fell
(That's calving) we cou...
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Categories:
calving, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Glacier Ice
...Frozen, crystallized, jagged
glacier ice travels
toward freedom
toward the sea
a thunderous crash
ice shelves splash
calving free
falling into the sea
tenacious waves
appease serrated ed...
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Categories:
calving, allegory, earth, journey, nature,
Form: Blank verse
Not So Merrily
...NOT SO MERRILY
in evening light, the tree not so merrily —
its shades shut tight, in revelry, lids beating
the coal cache — the portly man, delivering
tongues grab and stow curses repeatedly
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Categories:
calving, christmas, humor,
Form: Light Verse
The Mattus Barn
...A barn southwest of Central Butte
Could be seen for miles around
Upon a hill, and that was how
The Mattus place was found
A big and very well used barn
With lots of stock and feed
Pride of t...
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Categories:
calving, family, farm,
Form: Ballad
Exotic Glacier Bay - the Glaciers Speak
...Here they are before me,
surreal in the dazzling morning sun.
Against clear skies of blue, and
peaked snow-capped mountains-
these tall glaciers of Alaskan ice,
stand heavenly...
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Categories:
calving, beautiful, nature, sea,
Form: Imagism
Calving - As Told By Bessie Cow
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He comes so faithfully when called,
our veterinary doctor friend,
to our dear family of cows;
upon his help, we do depend.
The birthing of our calves amaze
him more than ever, a...
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Categories:
calving, animal, birth, farm,
Form: Personification
Vacation To Remember
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Of all the great vacations I've been on-
the ones abroad and those on land and sea,
the place to which my thoughts are always drawn,
'North to Alaska' was the best for me.
On Pr...
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Categories:
calving, memory, vacation,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
The Destruction of Planet Number Three
...The sun's savage fingers have penetrated
the calving sheets of ice, delving deeply
beneath the blankets of the frozen surface.
And the oceans, bruised mauve and swollen
like a pregnant whore,...
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Categories:
calving, betrayal, earth,
Form: Free verse
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