Long Permafrost Poems

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Premium Member Phoenix Defrosted

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 and
mutual compassion granted by soul searching and Higher Power

Love had been made before from a different fabric and the colours had 
quietly faded to screaming silence frozen into glaciers’ clefts of darkness
Chances lead the way and permafrost was not forever when the mask
came off with all its distortions mangled ice melting into novel beginnings

It took him searching of feeling thought desire and some meeting of minds
revisiting gently rigorously what had appeared to be the only prospect
one of soundless demise and shattering unfeasible stagnant arrest in the
prison of domination wilted marred marriage depression and torment

Agony struck and it however ignited a passion unknown a mating and union 
conjoined at hips and above for always and in all ways a heartfelt dance with 
the Universe high and below inside and within a mango grooved delta of 
Venus hot soothing lava engulfing new lovers’ poetic trees in poetry’s motion

Considering failure in cause and success in effect of landslides misfortune
bad luck and bad choices he is fortuitously graced now to thank destiny
constellation of karma kismet pure hard worked for chances where one thing 
leads to another when the ashes are reshuffled and second fire is sublime

06th September 2016


Premium Member Remembrance Forgotten

ashes to ground ashes

	dust to biting dust

		birth to surrender

no phoenix

	just crumbled trenches

		no cross on the grave

        blink of an eye

        	kissed amulet 

               		steel for the battle

                until last drop of blood

                	he held onto a prayer

		               clutched his weapon

when they broke his dog tag into two pieces

before snowfall covered his belligerent tracks

two halves conversed and confirmed the fact

that he should only live ‘until death do us part’


permafrost unforgiving

	cold wars heating up

		same message same fate

in the name of Father Son and Russian winter

an Unholy Spirit had taken charge of the battle


Stalingrad ... a footnote of history and tank chains

                    when spring came the steppe emerged unchanged

21st May 2020

Premium Member Blue Hole

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 digesting

before there was no more prey

to be sucked out of my life


one of them in particular

showed no mercy but wore

the face of my ex a terrier

and I was the rat in my nightmare


a silent movie paused on its reel

clockwork arrested in agony

but death refused the call for 

endless loops would not retreat


out of nowhere a petite woman arrived 

in an aquamarine dress with whistles

and bells on her outfit 

she led me to a cerulean sofa

took off my charcoal garments

undressed what was to become


she blew kisses and smiles 

onto my naked skin and painted

flowers of hope in magenta and crimson

with honeydew stems and forest green shoots


the hole changed to whole in split seconds

of passion kindness compassion and love

lust for life if you want and hollowed depression

out of the blue morphed from beneath our moans


a young soulmate with a dolphin earring

who also bore some tattoos on her skin

but she calls it cinnamon bark

now we howl with the wolves 

in tune with stellar composure

more than once in a blue moon


23th May 2020

A Guide On Being Cold

The chill in my bones is familiar
Like the icicles grasping my skin
I learned I was cold blooded at five
When the universe told me my sin

The first thing to gather is paint
To aurify your skin with each stroke
When gilded they'll think you're just metal
So they won't be surprised when you're cold

The second task is the boiling pot
Learn to cook yourself over the flame
(If you boil the chill our of your soul
Are you sure it is you that remains?)

When that doesn't work you need to scream
Loud enough to get Their attention
When They all tell you there is no curse
Consider your ice with clear tension

Your permafrost sealed your inner chill
Yet hardened against all sharp objects
I'm sorry you boiled bruised battered bones
But definement rallies through progress
© Some One  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Not today

You decided that today your weren’t returning
I find it very sad and concerning
This is not the way it should go
Although it’s something that must undergo
This isn’t the solution 
To find the resolution 
A process being demanded
And leaves hearts and minds further stranded
It’s disheartening to know
That the professionals don’t show
Kindness courtesy or compassion
In any chat or conversation 
It anger me to see your struggle 
Stress on your face has doubled
It hurts my heart to see your pain
Helpless and hard to contain 
Everyday that goes by
Could be another day closer to goodbye
Every moment wasted in there
Is another moment we don’t share
My heart breaks without you here
As every moment is filled with worry and fear
As a may never see you the same again
Everything changes in a day when
Those people don’t listen or care
Or treat you decent or fair
Completely helpless and alone
Life and thoughts are over thrown
A piece of my soul is lost
Locked in an icy chamber of permafrost
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Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Tundra of the Soul

I am the tundra barren cold and numb
A frozen wasteland where no light can reach
Between these poles, my insatiate self-succumbs.

In icy silence where no whimpers humb
My thoughts like glaciers grind, erode, and breach
I am the tundra, barren, cold, and numb.

The Amazon within once vital thrumb
Of life and hope now withers out of reach
Between these poles my insatiate self-succumbs.

Anxiety a howling blizzard's sumb
Entombs me deep a creature bleached of speech.
I am the tundra, barren, cold, and numb.

Depression creeps permafrost of my slumb
While echoes of lost joy my soul beseech
Between these poles, my insatiate self-succumbs.

Yet in this waste, where all seems overcome
A seed of strength cracks ice defies the leech
I am the tundra, barren, cold, and numb.
Between these poles, my insatiate self-succumbs.

Premium Member Blue Seclusion


The somber sky falls flustered,
wrecks the crown of bejeweled night.
The sickle moon slices its glow, 
dissolving at the brink of blue. 

In the depth of opaque onyx  
ground hears the footfall of stillness.
Glacial sense of chilled passion congeals
the exposure of lonesome secrecy.

The broken wings painfully curled,
can’t fly in the lacerating chill of winter,
enfold the frosted psyche,
fervent warmth freezes unfelt.

Frail emotive candle flame flickers,
the wind of cold abandon blows it out.
Morose mist enwraps the winter nights
within desolate distress innately framed.

The sky of longing falls frozen 
on the permafrost of arctic silence, 
with the icy torrent of the forlorn heart, 
buried deep in the gelid blue of seclusion.

Premium Member A Vine in Winter

The sky never complains about the storms,
but homes clusters of things we’ve lost~
    to form a canopy of comfort,
amidst electric threads, suffocating in silence.
When cold is the air ~ tender and crisp,
cradling the gold within jinxed jasmines,
aching for a rosier rise of the sun, 
as clouds sigh reveries, tinged with tears,
wreathed in memories,
of how love was once an orchid in summer,
now this heart trembles, frozen in numbness,
    like a vine breathing in winter,
seeking tendrils of truth from soils of promises~
a quiet verse in a permafrost sonnet, 
sealed with thistles ~ settling into nothingness,
but will the snow moon, 
ever taste the hope within solitude,
that rests upon my tongue?
Or am I to remain a paradox of petals,
floating through flurry lakes of space and time?

Togetherness

Togetherness 

Have you ever seen those beautiful sky paintings known as Fire rainbows?
You are one of them sparkling my life.

Have you ever seen those halos known as Ice crystal in the clouds?
You are one of them chilling my life.

Have you ever seen the spinning column of flames?
You are one of them when we often fight.

Have you ever seen those cute penitents?
You are one of them when I see you every day.

Have you ever seen Pele’s hair?
You are of them when we wake up together.

Have you ever seen the Blood Falls?
It is when we stop talking even for a minute.

Have you ever seen the desert roses?
You are one of them who blossomed my life.

Have you heard about giant permafrost explosions?
You are one of them when you get angry.

You are my rainbow eucalyptus and waterspouts.
You are clonal tree groves and eternal flame falls.
You are the spotted Lake and Nacreous Clouds.
You are my Green sand beach and starling murmuration of black sun.

Ice Ages Come

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 it would be cold
As it turns whiter in the depths of endless frost 
It moves much slower

Birds fall from trees, snow dusted cotton balls
Frozen, wrapped in winter gowns
Ice laden, as thermometers grow longer
To accommodate the permafrost engaged

Temperatures plunge next to zero
Stretched, bound to solid rocks
But why bother with the calculus
When the net effect is O
Where can barometers go but down 
Where zeros abound out numbered

Devices known to man stop time
Unwind realities effects on climate
Blizzards lay out the land with no regrets
With blinding wind and white theatricals

Lost directions and compasses offer no hope 
No protection in the endless snow

Where are the strawberries this year?
Why do blueberries not come to crop?
Dropped out of boundaries is Spring
Colored butterflies fly off the wing
Adopted by Winter it would seem

Frozen leaves hold on to cold
As on the trees they cling to memories
Fall spinning into muddied puddles
Turned to ice by dim moonlight
Reflecting lake’s late midnight

Sounds so quiet, so serene, as if not audible
Make their way to invisibility, silent in the air
Drift silky into mysteries of crystal ice
To nowhere special, collecting what air has to offer
Which is somewhere around but where

Words can not describe the inside outs of Winter
Ice ages are unforgiving, lasting for centuries on
For eons, music is unheard where it once abounded
Unearthed to be recovered in melodies un-listened to
Songs remain unsung however without the living
A world has yet to be discovered colder than our own
No one sings a song with no one there to sing along

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