Short Sleds Poems

fresh snow on the hill
happy children with their sleds
     each waiting their turn...

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The wind chases dry snow
swirls, slips, and sleds, entranced
ghost dancing the pavement....

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Mushers
Haiku: by Tom
1/13/2022

They make things happen;
something all dog sleds must have,
and they're called mushers.
...

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two
sleds
me and
my brothers
rest against my wall
every night the same debate
blah, blah, blah.... lost youth ... or... blah, blah, blah... forever young...

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Surprise! six inches fell
Silently through the night,
Secretly, unforeseen.
School cancelled, sleds are launched
Salt brine is useless now.
Stay home, no shoveling,
Sunshine will seize the day.
...

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Winter gives us snow
So we can ride our sleds.
Spring makes the flowers grow
In their lovely beds.
Summertime is always hot
So we go to the lake.
Fall makes the leaves all drop
And then we have to rake....

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Christmas Dreams

children's heads
think of sleds
in their beds

faces glow
all below
mistletoe

Santa’s seen
Christmas dreams
evergreen


12/28/18


Charlieku 3-3-3 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Charles Messina  2nd place...

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It does not take much
All it takes is a hill
A descent layer of snow
And a big ol’ bunch of kids
Then the magic starts
Snowmen, forts, and sleds
Just hundreds of kids being kids
And not a sad face in sight
A true ‘unplanned’ winter wonderland

© Poem – XII/XXV/MMXXI...

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Flakes sparkle, a golden sun emerges;
shadows chase children 'round forts of snow.
The groundhog appears holding his scepter.
"Don't store away those sleds just yet";
warm jackets will reign for six more weeks.
Snow plays its card – spades high.


written February 11, 2013...

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Hurry up and go;
Slow down and wait;
Drink when your hungry;
and Fast when your thirsty?
~
Dream while your awaken;
Sleep while your body is dead;
Even blindmen read books;
Some even drive, toboggans and sleds;


12/15/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2022©...

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 Silent nights and silent days
Silver pines of yesterday
Still-celebrating reprise
of rosy cheeks and snowy heights
of treetop angels and brilliant lights

Glowing bulbs and flying sleds
Destiny in dreamy beds
for morrow’s Christmas
is presenting and unwrapping
Springtide memories are clapping...

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You asked me once
Simply stating 'why'?
The snow is so pretty
how can beauty make you cry?

I don't like sleds
won't catch me on skis;
don't like my nose cold
I prefer my skin with a sunny breeze

The touch of water
the sound of the waves
everything dissapears;
the Ocean saves

I can't indulge the sea
when I'm bundled in a coat
I sure can't swim
if my air is frozen...

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White sand cascades in a wee washed-up jelly jar.
Shiny on its side, stepwise tumbling as a child turns it.
Boy’s curious mind reveals a tiger’s eye, rhodonite,
Snowflake obsidian, red jasper and quartz midst sand.
In reverse play, stones look like sleds on a snowy slope.
Slow reveal of each prize mesmerizing and calming.

11/22/2021
Line Gauthier’s BITE SIZE POEM no27...

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cold, but
sun’s bright

season’s
grand sight

pure snow
gleaming

thrilled kids
screaming

snowballs
soaring

day’s not
boring

sleds are
gliding

grandma’s
riding!

snowmen
makers

cookie 
bakers

cocoa 
mixers

supper 
fixers

great day
near-gone

“Good night,”
all yawn


December 6, 2022
       placed 5th in a Brian Strand Contest...

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Winter fresh, crisp and clean,
God's dessert for mankind,
Delicious experentially,
The mountains you ski,
Toboggans and sleds,
A swift passage to tomorrow,
The snowman and snow forts,
A favorite passtime,
The days of maple syrup and pancakes,
The pioneers making us welcome,
With their traditional old-fashioned ways,
The blessings of our God.

Author: Gwen von Erlach...

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A cold wind blows 
snow flakes flutters
down from the heavens.
The great pines
covered in whiteness
as children sleds 
down the hills.

Another log onto the fire
as families reunite.
Christmas tree all bright
with gifts in site.
Laughter fill the night 
as we here the crackle
of the fire.

Songs of joy 
being sung with family.
Faces filled with joy
as we reunite
around family...

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Cold wet winter winds 
plenty of snow to play in 
snowmen to build ~ sleds. 
Hot chocolate to drink up, 
soft furry blanket ~ cuddle.  
 


Date Written: 12/2/2021 

4 Place 

Winter Wishes Poetry Contest 
Sponsored by: Chantelle Anne Cooke...

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Getting hard to hide here,
Wanting to fully disappear,
Anxiety has got a chokehold,
This demon has gotten bold,
Talon's buried deep into me,
Try to run but cannot flee,
Each struggle darkness embeds,
Pulling heavy burden sleds,
Ground has turned to tar,
Unable move forward far,
Strain becomes to heavy to bare,
Chokehold's now stopped my air,
Gotten to hard to hide here,
I'll never fully disappear....

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A poem, beautiful as snow,
She sparkles with a wintry glow.

Like falling frost upon each pine,
each word: complex and crystalline.

With magic sifted in each fractal,
The snow resembles every dactyl.

Hot chocolate, sleds, the fireplace-
Are comforts like the poems’ grace.

A novelty, a Christmas treat,
a lovely poem storms like sleet.

A winter’s day with snowing skies
Is poems in a white disguise....

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A poem, beautiful as snow,
She sparkles with a wintry glow.

Like falling frost upon each pine,
each word: complex and crystalline.

With magic sifted in each fractal,
The snow resembles every dactyl.

Hot chocolate, sleds, the fireplace-
Are comforts like the poems’ grace.

A novelty, a Christmas treat,
the perfect rhymes will storm like sleet.

A winter’s day with snowing skies
Is poems in a white disguise....

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In  Winter            

     Icicles hanging from slant eaves of roof.
     Heavy window curtains: perfect wind-proof.
     Outside, shiny snow sparkling as silver.
     Nice ice flakes floating on close-by river.
      
      Cheerful children playing sliding on sleds.
      Men removing ice, pulling pushing spades.
      Lending helping hand to shift drifts of frost.
      Being careless, peerless wedding ring got lost.
 
12/02/18...

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Trimeter

Winter of skates, snow, ice.
Cold chill in the air, coats,
muffins, scarfs , sleds, skies, nice.
Silver bells, music notes.

Slalom’s dangerous way
Hot chocolate, sweaters,
Boots for drifts, wind blown day.
Home by fire, writing letters.


Mistletoe, Santa Claus,
presents, ribbons, bows, strings,
wrappings children then toss.
Toy cars, dolls, Christmas brings.

All is time of great joy ,
Time made for both girl, boy....

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Like a blustering old man the 
storm spews snow epitaphs of disregard
for the minions of man.
A light froth falls from the north
dry and distant making
sideburns, muttonchops on the bark
of barren tree trunks.
The windward side of the trees
applying downward weight of snow
tilting with dismay.
Yet, the day calls to the young
and through slamming back doors they run
sleds, and saucers in their bundled arms
ah... for my ole flexible flyer!...

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Sunshine turned to cold sleet
Palm trees froze in place
Tourists walked down white streets.
to shop for hats and boots

Beach boys left the beaches;
 Surfboards were turned to sleds.
Rather than surfing waves
they slid down Diamond Head.

No more graceful hula;
grass skirts became passé.
Dressed in lederhosen,
slap-polka was the rage.

Don Ho found a new song
to thrill his many fans
 ‘Tiny toddies,’ every-
one, makes us all feel warm.


Suzanne Delaney...

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A one-time backpacking zebra with a rah rah rah
Went down the mountain sliding down a long seesaw
We yelled hey wait! Don’t you usually walk.
He gave us a rude hand gesture; and a little squawk.

I did not know that backpackers rode down sleds I yelled.
He mooned me good, which I thought was even ruder still.
I was glad when he ran into a picnic table at the bottom of the hill.
Which was not kind, but it was the way I felt said my brother Bill....

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