Long Permafrost Poems

The Alaskan Oil Pipeline

Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide...

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Whatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?

Hobbit those characters who lived 
within the realm 
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squelched cusp of progressivism,
now most likely 
experience bitterness at the...

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Whatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?

Hobbit those characters who lived 
within the realm 
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squelched cusp of progressivism,
now most likely 
experience bitterness at the...

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Maybe this is a cliché, but it’s not you it’s me.
He was consistently reminding me how selfish I could be,
And saying the world steadily revolves around me.
I would normally disagree, but with his wisdom he...

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... stalactites hung like dystopian snot from a statue 

her brain was frozen and formed ice in her mind

a lacuna without inlet or outlet arrested in time

mind’s skates tied up in bundles of snowflakes

gloves off...

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Sitting on the frigid feeble symmetrical snow              *              ...

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Oh, in inspirations winter dreaming, I’ve dream't
Of a mystic valley of the Aurora Borealis,
A chambered realm of frozen colors,
Exploding within reflected light aglow,
In the hushed silence of ice and snow.
Here the pondering thoughts are set...

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Ice Ages Come With Colder Days
By February March moves on to centuries
Still the sky comes laden with atmospheric vapor
As light as ice, clouds abundance falls to the ground
As thaw fails to gather life’s potential 

If nature could take her pulse...

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Moon's midriff chequered with light blue letterboxes and legos 
Carbon-dating the museums of our miniature hands riding the nightingale jukeboxes, 
Contoured in concertos of glacier nightgowns and batmobiles...
A topcoat of my father's snickerdoodle smiles sowed...

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Bull eve me (Adam, whether existence
     fact or fiction),
     his immediate legion heirs whole
heartedly partook
     to regale no Joe king paternal prominence,
 ...

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She wanted to go back
to the place that expelled her-
Octopode ink on a birth certificate.
Black smoke, not blue,
Dark smatter hid from view
Pale pink sunrise
Baby blue skies...

It rained the day she cried,
newborn, still womb warm.
Instinct to...

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I've been waiting for someone to shed some light,
To take my hand and lead me back
Into the arms of the earth.
I've been ankle-deep in frost-kissed puddles,
Wishing for the welcome mat to sweep me
In out of...

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The leopard kills for love
sun burns for souls,
The moon moans for blood
stars frost the steppes,
The fire of your eyes
warms the wastelands,
Alone the horse rides
Tree of Life leans to the winds,
The arrow strikes deep
a wound becomes...

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The greatest threat to the world is climate change, 
driven by human emissions and resulting in shifting weather;
the Earth's temperature is rising and little hope remains.

The Arctic permafrost, glaciers, and sea ice wanes,
and rising ocean...

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Polar theology
Cold-hearted hate-based belief
Frigid permafrost principles of sub-zero greed
Rigid igloo authority
Ice fortress border policy
Snow mountain wall ain’t color passage easy

Refrigerator thought orthodoxy:
Sunflower faces were born to spit shine eternally
Void shoe box coffin space ... crypt...

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We did it ourselves with our waste and our greed
Warnings were given but no-one took heed
They said the sea level slowly would rise
as heat and pollution built up in the skies

They said that the ice...

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Phoenix Defrosted

Given by the Sun God the good of the moon and some lucky stars
he sits full of fortune love and still in miraculous amazement under 
the bright rays of southern soil soaking unbelievable kindness...

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The Tears Bequeathed

Of frozen droplets’ ice water in his veins swamped his heart
                      little...

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out of the blue you arrived

not just the usual winter blues

more like permafrost with icicles

piercing all colour out of me

until everything was black


the dogs on my shoulder

a pack of wild hounds

haunting me down 

growling chewing...

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Trapped beneath the surface of the ice again
Nothing I say will penetrate the thick crust of permafrost
That has surrounded and enveloped me.
Sympathies of my confidants have been exhausted
A well has been bled dry by slow...

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She thinks in exotic colours 
that drip off her tongue 
like sharp shining jewels
formed somewhere deep 
in the permafrost of her,
the grey matter thrives
in the lava somewhere
rising inside the 
lux velvet crimson 
pulsing at the...

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Gobble warming perpetuates climate change! No longer a theory; it's a fact. Scientists say we cannot do anything to prevent this; we waited too long. We will experience significant climate events that will lead to...

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A once dear friend, he now is gone,
But not into oblivion,
I search my heart, I scratch my head,
But it is clear that he’s not dead.

The silence is quite staggering,
The permafrost yet lingering,
Though months have past...

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Our beloved Planet lies in peril...
The Lords of Passion would decree.
The weather's getting warmer
As any fool can plainly see.

But I hate to burst your bubble
As Mother Nature takes her course.
We be but a temporary infestation
That...

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DISPOSSESSED 

Running,
Running…
We are always running, 
running again. 

I clutch my son’s small hand, 
his fingernails drive into my palm.
Running, Running again, 
and the cold is catching up to us.

Every step is slippery, against the
permafrost, and...

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