Short Iciness Poems

Luminous coloring
Mountainous pyramids of foliage
Impending iciness...

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Love means snow to me
Tightly iciness holds firm
Vision chills my mind.

(January 10, 2011  Wausau, Wisconsin)

(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved...

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and poetry succumbed
its tentacles loped off
lest they touch one
who came too near
their sting drained
vitriol and venom
adrift on a motionless sea
an oil slick calm of
“Hallmarkian” mediocrity
denying the rise of waves
the hollow roar of breakers
the depth of truth’s iciness
numbing the poets soul


John G. Lawless
©11/19/2018...

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I am the prisoner of the ice voices
That talk to me with a lashing air
About cold and dark lands
Where forever, I will find my grave.

Chilled by the cold speech,
I let myself be hurt by the iciness of their words,
While I stir in the extinguished embers of life
With a long bone from my leg.

With a strange black hat
And with an old rag as a suit,
Without companions to urge me on their way,
I remain a skeleton in a clay tomb....

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Thoughts like calligraphy 
Seemingly effortless
Natural flow and flair
The smell of autumn leaves
Visable laughter from your mouth
Wisps of calligraphy 
We both knew 
Did I turn you into this 
Or did you turn me
Not enough silence to let me forget
For years  
Bringing back the leaves
That crisp air
But the warmth between us
is it all gone
Or am I just to forget 
Maybe I just chose not to notice
The iciness 
The leaves were rotting after all...

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bathed in such splendor
in front of us blue water -
verdancy behind
how very cold it is though
like ice, it cuts to the bone
 
this frigid beauty
I let my eyes feast on it
ignoring the cold
the scent of pine is wafting
I breathe in tranquility
 
breathing in fragrance
I let the iciness go
my love shall warm me
the fresh trees and ocean air
can’t compare to his sweet warmth

July 14, 2017 for the Contest of John Anderson...

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