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Ice Floe Poems - Poems about Ice Floe

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



Premium MemberAlaska 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

Premium MemberCherry 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

Premium MemberOmen 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

Premium MemberSole 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

Premium MemberSir 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

Premium MemberHeart 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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