The “Last Great Race On Earth” takes place in Nome, Alaska
It's called the “Iditarod”, sled doggies race, now I ask ya
Why do these loonies do it
These are very strange twits
Eleven hundred miles! Rather watch it on my iPhone on my veranda
Love in Winter
A winterbed with ice cold feet is hot.
These snowy buds outshine the season’s gray.
Her shiver lasts - in travels she’s been caught.
The blanket’s frost - a wave on chilly days.
Her eyelashes, and icicles, so thick.
She’s tossed to and fro in the ice queen’s squall.
A glacial melt — he’s down — the sea moves...quick —
With thunderclaps his chest does rise and fall.
Relaxed, refreshed — like peppermint, this glove
that fits. Like soft new fallen snow - they glow.
Entangled legs in the leggings of love.
A wonderland of lips, their drift is slow.
This sleigh, a winterbed of midnight dates.
The iditarod sun of figure-eights.
7/6/2019
Best sonnet 2019 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: John Hamilton
howmanysyllables.com used to check syllable count
miscounted winterbed as 2 syllables; should be 3
*buds - buddies, companions, friends
**winterbed - combo of two words
The “Last Great Race On Earth” takes place in Nome, Alaska
Called the “Iditarod”, sled doggies race, now I ask ya
Why do these loonies do it
These are very strange twits
Eleven hundred miles! Rather watch it on my iPhone on my veranda
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