Short Floes Poems

Destiny

Bobbing hopelessly
amid the melting ice floes
Polar destiny

John G. Lawless
6/8/2014...

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Ebb-less Floe


The ice floes will not return and he will never leave.


2/19/2016

submitted to – In one line (monoku #7) write what you see or feel – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Poet Destroyer A...

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She’s crowned with scattered clouds oblique
An iron wrought and sculpted queen
While holding court o’er lesser peaks
Within her kingdom sharp and keen
Chaste ice floes worship at her feet
Where the earth the sea and skyline meet...

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The bedroom hearthstone 
breathes black ice cream
into our shell.
I scuttle on the floes of insomnia
like a conch shell 
knocked into the jealous waters.
You sleep soundly.

Maybe we’ll crack open the mudroom door tomorrow
and comb the yard for your mittens.
My yellowed knee 
will crawl out of its cast in fourteen days.

The house mumbles something about abandonment....

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NORTH SEA WINTER


teasing dawn weeps winter fog
day's light prances swiftly by
ice floes in the blood of men
     prism nights shatter 
  



Victoria Anderson-Throop
12/01/2012
Natural Dodoitsu Contest




          THE SERENGETI

Zebra herds nudge babes along
Low slung sun burns shaded eyes
Water pools hide fish from hawks
          Peace of paradise

Victoria Anderson-Throop ©
12/1/2012
Natural Dodoitsu Contest...

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Winter clouds drift like arctic floes
On an atmospheric river;
wind herding, prodding them onward
to a repetitive future.
The clouds always enthralled my mind.
Their aesthetic varying shapes
captured my imagination.
As a child I would gaze at them;
letting their shapes form images
in my mind others couldn’t see.
I still watch them as an adult
change into phantom images
shown above by the first four lines....

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A prodigious flock of seagulls
float seemingly, effortlessly
on a winter frigid river
like miniature polar floes.
Their harsh wailing and squawking calls
are muffled by the roaring sound
of cascade from an old dam.
Their idiosyncratic moves
manifest aquatic prowess:
Their twirling, swirling, eddying
against the current as though fixed
to each molecule of water
until they rise from the surface
into winters late morning mist....

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We do not fit in with esteemed
Authority to ascertain
Beauty that their caste may deem
It to be--how shallow and vain
they are in our amateur eyes!
For us, magnificence finds us:
Virgin snowflakes fall from the sky
In myriad splendiferous
Silence; A flock of ring-billed gulls
Swooping wailing and squawking
In descending widen circles
amid the frozen flakes, settling
like miniature river floes.
This is beauty that’s apropos....

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HISTORY   IS   BUNK


Columbus discovering America?  Yeah, right !
Only after a  small  army of Vikings from overseas 
Traded and raided on the coasts for centuries; 
And Brendan had navigated from Ireland  to the Bronx;
Not to mention precolumbian wrecks of Chinese  junks 
Found in the sandy bottom of San Diego harbor;
And the Mongoloid  footsloggers who tiptoed south to Ann Arbor
Across the floes of the Bering Strait ten millennia before....

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           Alone by the brook,
           The ice floes happily took,
           Freedom's loving looks.


           Daily she walked, masked.
           Fear, no free speech, were her tasks.
           In agony, she basked.


           All values now burnt.
           Humor, cannot freedom return.
           Life~lived in an urn!


          
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HISTORY   IS   UNTRUE


Columbus discovering America?  Yeah? Who  says?
Only after a  small  army of Vikings  from overseas
Traded and raided on  the coasts for centuries; 
And Brendan had navigated from Ireland  to the Bronx;
Not to mention precolumbian wrecks of Chinese  junks 
Found in the sandy bottom of San Diego harbor;
And the Mongoloid  footsloggers who tiptoed south to Ann Arbor
Across the floes of the Bering Strait  a millennium before....

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choreography by de sade
lurid in glass cages
masturbating strobe lit neon
orbit decaying speed.

wholesale supplication
self abusing gratification
starving heroin chic
naked jazz gloss pages

clinical execution
seductive as scalpels
warm as polar ice floes
passionate as styrofoam

loveless bloodless corpses
cold animated fever
acid battery jerks
common denominator appeal

promises to be broken
dreams exsanguinated
lives to be killed
flesh...be...mine...

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