Poles Apart
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Polar bear at the north pole,
floating on a lone ice floe,
thinks to himself,
'What happened to my world,
where did all the ice go?'
If to the south pole he did depart,
penguins to ...
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Categories:
ice floe, animal, bird, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Time Machine
...Time Machine
I sometimes wonder about migration, is there a moment when doors are closed and the bus leaves the station
Sorry folks, the country is full.
One of the reasons people from Pakistan ...
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Categories:
ice floe, august, creation, england, flying,
Form: Blank verse
Alaska the Rarest Gem
...Alaska The Rarest Gem
Salmon imitates plunging dolphin movement
Bald eagles chase ptarmigan above escarpment
Under an ice floe a ...
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Categories:
ice floe, america, culture, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Cherry Blossom Offspring
...Amid the glare and glitter at this jolliest of seasons there lurks a deep rich human impulse born to halo moons.
Glowing cheek of cherry blossom offspring,
lovingly they tug at universal father fig...
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Categories:
ice floe, angel, art, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Narrative
Omen Or a Sign
...Mourning doves sigh on ice floe clouds
sand dune crickets pierce red dawn shrouds
bull’s-eye squall deluge from on high
on ice floe clouds mourning doves sigh
Vapour trails omen or a sign
gran...
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Categories:
ice floe, art, beautiful, birth, care,
Form: Quatrain
River Stones
...These are the stones
that ground nails and sharpened talons,
they have slid under mountains of ice and fire,
have been polished by the glacial dead.
The stones endure now in layers of motion an...
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Categories:
ice floe, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Foremost On My Bucket List
...Foremost On My Bucket List?
Yo yo ma...though your absence
doth suddenly cause me woe,
no matter parting with
many bittersweet sorrows
long since consciousness unstrung
more'n fourteen plus y...
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Categories:
ice floe, absence, anxiety, august, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Sole Soul Survivor
...Siddharta worked hard for the middle way to appear in silent meditation
Above him a lotus flower shone pure radiance from an indigo moon
Ebb and flow levitated cast in nothingness and droplets ...
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Categories:
ice floe, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Cartography of Love
...I.
ROMANCE begins
with a supernovae
as two
hearts decrease space between
walls and fears; the ice-floe
of painful life melts,
once powerful thoughts and
conviction now powerless,
aga...
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Categories:
ice floe, 4th grade, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse
Blind Spot
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I am afraid
of becoming someone
who has no fear
A robotic anomaly ...
given a self-awareness blind spot
Possessing a third eye,
which moves oblivious upon
the treacherous waves...
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Categories:
ice floe, allusion, identity, perspective, sad
Form: Free verse
Sir Ernest Shackleton
...Born in Ireland in eighteen seventy four
He was a remarkably brave explorer
Three times to Antartica he did go
To that barren wilderness of ice and snow.
Once with Captain Scott and twic...
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Categories:
ice floe, natural disasters,
Form: Narrative
A Swede, a Dane and Two Norwegians
...Everyone who has money
should drop it in a vat and
anyone who needs money
should take what they need
a Swede, a Dane and two
Norwegians tell Fred, also an
economist who flew in from Yale....
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Categories:
ice floe, money,
Form: Blank verse
Heart Wildfire
...Cold as an iceberg
For the whole life deceivings
Was the tender heart
Until an overwhelming
Wildfire melted the ice floe
3-15-2016...
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Categories:
ice floe, feelings,
Form: Tanka
A Fisherman's Tale
...A Fisherman’s Tale
Out o’gloom, her pale siege comes to menace our humble dwell
I look to celeste fix, yet no stark smile to traverse me
So I grip my girl, now graceful, as she slides in churn...
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Categories:
ice floe, dark, devotion, goodbye, grief,
Form: Terzanelle
Life On the Floe - 1
...I had lived on the ice-floe for about a year
My world had become absolutely geometric---
everything within my vision was linear.
And the whiteness had taken me past the point of madness.
Learning...
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Categories:
ice floe, allegory, introspection, lifeme, me,
Form: I do not know?
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