Short Icebergs Poems

melting permafrost
icebergs soon to disappear
canaries warn us...

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Winters freezing wilderness.
   Icebergs gliding silently.
   Mirror stately sailing ships.
   Frozen into ice.
  
 


   11/ 7/ 2015....

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I watch them melt
imagining the arctic
slowly melting into the sea
until there is nothing
left of ice worthiness.

I guess I'll suffer with hot coffee.

SKB
http://www.myspace.com/sheila_kathryn_barrera...

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A glassy sea of crystalline degrees 
sustain a mass of icebergs in its pews 
that lift their icy eyes in melting pleas 
to wrest the dying of their waning hues. 

  
A stanza from my poem, Obscure Land of Lights
Written on 5/21/2019...

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Two hungry little penguins
Both eager for their nosh,
One penguin’s name is Splish,
And the other one’s called Splosh.

Two hungry little penguins
Each holding out their dish,
I wonder what’s for dinner?
Surprise, surprise – it’s fish....

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Icebergs in the Antarctic and Arctic are menacingly melting,
Mud slides, freezing Winters, summers are sweltering,
Oceans are encroaching, drowning Earth, 
Rainfalls severe across its girth and dearth,
End of humanity, a dire situation globally threatening....

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GREENLAND


Land of white purity and grace.

Ice, sea, snow, and you brace

Yourself as  the  wind cuts your face.

Whales break the surface

And icebergs in their slow race chase

Each other from the island’s south face

In this barren arctic place....

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searching for scant food
wolves foxes hares and bears roam ---
snow owls taunt hungry harp seals 

northern cardinals 
dig icebergs and peep within 
ice fish swiftly hides in holes


10 January 2023
Winter Sedoka Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Charles Messina...

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We’ve just returned
from a cruise to the Bahamas
and were so fortunate
to observe penguins and polar bears
frolicking on the huge icebergs 


We’re looking forward to Alaska in December
for our sunshine summer holiday!

Pithy Pants Contest

2/19/19...

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Fire
                                Scorching, Danger
                              Blazes, Burns, Melts
                      Torch, Bonfire, Snowflakes, Icebergs
                        Crystallizes, Solidifies, Expands
                                 Frost, Freezing
                                        Snow...

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Tentativeness has become pure permanence.
Overindulgence turn true to life temperance... 
Boulders resemble icebergs of sturdy snow rocks,
Bonfire looks like lively long burning lava blocks...
Something seen; something hidden; everything subtle,
Living and dead, betwixt heaven and hell shuttle...


24 December 2021...

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She makes an early showing, 
her warm breath blowing;
an Eastern sunrise glowing, 
flowers up and growing.

Melted icebergs flowing, 
men on tractors sowing;
loose dirt clods throwing, 
barnyard roosters crowing.

Suddenly, it's snowing; 
frosty winds now mowing.
Wily smile, all-knowing; 
fleetingly, she's going.

Spring . . . such a tease...

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Simple words
  and deeper meanings

Softer thoughts
  and harder leanings

Letters line up
  straight and true

But often they bring
  something new

Simple words
  and deeper meanings

Icebergs melt,
  the flow still gleaming

Say it once,
  and say it plain

Your heart will roar
 —your soul to gain

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)...

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Glacial blue dawn;
Slender pink whiskers of warmth
touch frozen ruins

Icebergs sailing by
scatter rubble in their wake;
Sharp winds cleave hard rock

Jagged shards melting
slowly in shallow sunbeams;
Chill pebble strewn pools

Icy continents; 
Light glancing on still waters
mirrors frosted skies

Long days and short nights; 
Winter rules this citadel
in crisp white mantle...

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Fallen through the cracks
Hidden, half alive
Each of us
Pretending to survive

The lonely ones are out there
If you look deep inside
Behind each face, see a trace
Of longing, each belonging

Icebergs unseen below
A story left untold
Pieces to show
Their life to unfold

Everyone has a story
A side you cannot see
Look beyond, look inside
The lonely ones like me...

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I never thought this is a tale
I could ever tell
My heart was tossed and turned,
Printed on cards
Some played with it,
My feelings pawns 
On a chess board
Till you, my sailor
Said all aboard 

Sway, sway
Through icebergs
Till we reached 
Where we never thought 
We could reach 
The beach
You took off your sailor’s hat
Ready to hike
I guess we are amphibious like that...

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Statues rise and fall
  Empires stutter and stall
Genius streaks 'cross the sky
  Leaves in its wake more 'Whys?'

Mountains slowly erode
  Earth cracks, they implode
The seas advance then recede
  A hiss of steam from icebergs freed

The sun grows old, begins to expand
  Turns devil-red, scorches the land
A mighty blast proclaims its twilight
  The universe winks ~ goodnight...

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I DESIRE AND DREAM

AND EVERY  CORNER OF MY HEART

EXPLORES YOUR LONELY WORLD..

I SEE YOUR HIDDEN TEARS

TRANSCENDING MY EYES..

THEY MELT LIKE ICEBERGS.

THIS LIFE IS FUTILE

IF WORDS DON’T REACH ME

AND EVERY MOMENT IS ACCURSED

TIME IS ALWAYS CALLOUS

FOR THOSE WITH A GOLDEN HEART…

BUT MY ARMS WILL REACH YOU 

BEFORE THE SUNSET OF MY LIFE..

I HACK YOU IN MY DREAMS FOREVER…...

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We can build walls...
                 but they all fall...
                 Thaw seas of icebergs,
                 but they will freeze again...
                  but we can never
                 cut off the wings of the wind!
                 If man had such power,
                 there would be no wars...
                 because they would not exist    
                 humans anymore.... !...

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We can lift fortress walls ...
                 but they all will collapse ...
                 Undo seas of icebergs,
                 but they will freeze again ...
                  But we can never
                 cut the wings of the wind!
                 If man had such power,
                 there would be no wars ...
                 Because there would  not be 
                  more humans anymore.... !...

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Black like a rare diamond.
Perfectly sculpted.
White as a snowy peek .
Reflecting off the glistening waves.
Your beauty and grace challenge us.
Mostly free, we morn for your captured brothers.
Gliding and leaping through the blue.
Chasing your soul mates protecting your tribe.
Your song is herd for miles deep.
Echoing on the icebergs.
You are magnificent, alluring.
Teasing us with your glance.
Swim far Orca be free...

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we've seen
               signs of it.
           global warming
        is as real as it gets,
               no doubt.

              spring-like,
             the weather.
            in mid-winter;
      icebergs of Antarctica 
                melting.

                 oceans
              keep rising
           and permafrost
    of the North Pole thawing
                  yearly.


Date written: 07/05/2022...

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Water-lily,
Floating on the ice-blue sea,
Away from your homeland.
Leaving thin, red, trails as you go.
Steering among the foreign, black-seal-dotted icebergs.
Electric-white lightening flashing,
And the chill of the Arctic winds,
Bombarding from all directions.
As you long for,
The lily-pad life,
Its comfort and kinship,
Now, but a past possession.
I, do, too.
Let us stiffen our lips,
Tighten our collars,
And dream....

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the time-river-bank be
lined with account-trees branching...
so the dollar-leaves float

to where they be economically
kneaded as future debt for weaponry...
from an even-easier scrooge

who computer-eyes future
decades of payback that never end till...
the last dollar-plum-met

says those who profit from fighting
are nothing but existent school-yard gangs...
to be sent to fight on melting icebergs


stan sand




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Sailing upon the sunrise
To another enchanted dawn
There is more to summer
Than merely a lazy yawn

Onwards towards the north end trail
To the glaciers broken mane
Now, pieces to a puzzle 
while whales spout in vain

It is there we set our sails
through the icebergs strewn path
Nature tells the tale
Of its noonday wrath

Polar bears on the prowl
To feed their starving cubs
Soon they will be extinct
Before the sun goes down...

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