Short Snowshoes Poems

my sister turned light chartreuse

after hearing on the news

the end is quite near

a blizzard all year

so we recommend snowshoes.
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prints of our snowshoes

ending where the trail is crossed

by a cougar's tracks


Jan. 16, 2022
For Tania Kitchin's 
Winter Haiku Poetry Contest
checked by howmanysyllables.com...

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Here in Canada, we must wear snowshoes
Forever attached to our feet it's really big news
All over the world
Controversy swirls
Envisioning we never have summer and drink lotsa beer...

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A Springtime Weather Forecast

A springtime weather forecast.
Snowfall, blizzard, whiteout!
Snow drifting so deep,
Warrants snowshoes,
Sunglasses.
Don't go
Blind!


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I sensed eyes on me but saw nothing but Arctic white
The sun was high, and the frozen crystals were sparkly bright.
My snowshoes stopped in the middle of the ice, as I looked around
I finally spotted an Arctic wolf pack, sitting quietly next to solid ground....

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There is a sting to winter’s kiss
cold memory reignited
a vision through watery eyes
a mirage of moments blighted

weary tracks of empty snowshoes
thinning lines on crest of hill
swallowed by a cloudless sky
the stinging bite of winter’s chill

crystal tracks of hardened teardrops
frozen on love’s time numbed cheeks
wait in silence as they listen
as love’s windblown distance speaks


John G. Lawless
©1/18/2022...

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It is a Sasquatch said a child who has seen several I know.
It was hairy and tall, lumbering along in the deep snow.
Moving faster than most of us who are wearing snowshoes.
Is there ever a pair? Do we ever see them in two’s?

It’s an ape, probably has run off from the zoo, I bet.
Said my far-sighted neighbor, Mrs. Tootles McRett.
We did not know what it was but did not run after it either.
We are smarter than that said my cousin, Lordy McTeter....

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