Long Ice storm Poems

I wrote a sad but true urban legend called “Dillen and the DMV” last week.
Here follows an update.

Background Review:

One of my health care employees, Dillen, has wicked ADD, borderline intelligence, not qualifying for disability supports,...

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A dream of a Rainbow coloured family

In the ocean there is a raging storm 
And a lot of boats 
With rudders that are shattered,
Compasses lost, sails that are torn.
And dreams that are faded or tattered
With...

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I remember one night last winter when we thought it was snow falling, but we were wrong. It was ice.

We went out that night and stayed out too late -- unusual for folks our age....

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Ecclesiastes 3:1 (KJV) "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:"

As haunting as autumn’s waltz,
When the maples and oaks charm,
Dancing in ambers, golds and hearts,
Risking the shadows...

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She started life as a gentle spring rain,
Innocence not yet slain.
So full of life with joy and happiness,
A soul truly blessed.
Parents who couldn’t figure it out,
Wrestling matches filled with screams and shouts.
Slowly the spring rain...

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this story told is twofold we begin                            ...

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December
knows the speech
to transcribe double-edged thoughts,
dried between cognitive spaces
of comets tattooed
with razor-sharp ink~
infused with cinnamon and clover,
emanating toxic perfume
of decadent desires~
as our love was an ice-storm~
beautiful, fleeting, destructive,
and promises we made are
like petulant paper-dolls,
misplaced in...

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November

Cool winds turn cold as the winds stir from the north
The sun, the life giving star, heats the tropics so far to the south
Its warmth a distant memory to the lands that it deserted
Long forgotten...

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It started with the freezing rain,
the curse of winter time,
turning all into slick black glass
on every road you find.

Then came on all the pelting sleet,
pins and needles outside,
you can hear it as it hits home,
adding...

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3am
i am up and out
a few days after an ice storm
a few days after my Mother's car was repossessed
walking the three hours to work
near the woods
i hear the rustling
i am being watched
a dead deer startles...

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The floor was carpeted with wonderful trees,
stomped and storm-clawed leaves
they arise again as specks of magic dust
fire starts from ash on the eyelashes
air-blazing amid the fall haze.
 
The flakes were light and shimmering
I delight on...

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Winter is slamming my lovely town with an ice storm,
giving it a resemblance of an alpine village
not nestled in pines, but with bigtooth aspens so tall; 
I should be at work today, not wallowing in...

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The eerie surreal countenance of the moon
Illuminates mysterious dune
The pupils of her eyes are the visage of that moon
In them there is wonder and fury of raging typhoon

In those eyes my soul will swim
With spirit...

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Flyin south to Dallas
in a cold November rain
with this continental climate
weather there may be the same.
There’s money from two countries
janglin in my purse
and stories from two families
caught up in this verse.

The airplane’s almost empty
and I’m...

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Afternoon Snowstorm in January 
David J Walker


What else would I dream about
 in January 
When the chill is enough to kill 
		All incentive 
And the north wind huffs its wicked breath
		In a cruel Laugh 

What...

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Valiant efforts to try to resist
Glistening white frost gloating to stay.
Outside movement stops a whiteness subsist.
Trees harden as soldiers, not any sway.
Laid naked, hold fast in the stark of day.
Cold current bristle clouds nondescript gray.

Mother...

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As the Robins dart across the grass
Ignoring the clouds of gray
Cold breeze and cold dry air
Every so often they bob their heads
Eating a bug or seed something to me unseen

The Redbuds that in the wild...

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Mammoth cold this morning.
There’s been an ice-storm.
Stiff-meat meets chilled ribs, 
I am creaking and walking
shovel in shrinking hand.

Robins pounce on frozen worms
Siberian tigers in a flying flurry;
if they stop for a moment
death and life falls...

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Fire and ice!
The former burns into smoke,
The latter melts into water!
You can stop a fire by water,
But never can you stop water from flowing.
She might turn into vapour if you boil her off by the...

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Calling across the serpentine path of the river,
Snaking under bridges to the lamp-lit town,
Her voice a silken purr with mournful quiver,
Drifting on the ice-storm sweeping down.
In the rocky coffin of the valley walls,
Calling from the...

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As the Robins dart across
Ignoring the clouds of gray
And cold breeze with the dry air
Bob their heads eating a bug

Something to me not there
The Redbuds that in the wild
Do grow begin to show their
True colors...

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polar vortex intensifies
as bitter arctic air
ushers in the new year

winter storm conditions
stir gusts of wind
scattering good wishes

prevailing disturbances
eventually converge
as high chance 
depression and instability
will soon dissipate

accumulation of good cheer
will undoubtedly release
barometric pressure

if you plan a...

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Im missing Christmas this year
Not by choice
But buy the voice of my employer
"Oh it will be easy, Carl
You will have no hard work at all,"
And like a trooper I answered the call
So two snowstorms 
And...

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Mid December and the temperature is soaring
The sky is cerulean, and it feels like early spring,
I expect the robins’ return, the meadow greening
And children again playing outside in the street.
Christmas morning is less than two...

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Passion Wave

My tongue dares to taste
Craving a cold purified ice storm,
Trapped under a mountain of heat,
Yearning waters to cure this excessive hot weather waste
Prolonged periods that moves like a Slave
Jobless and still my body resides...

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