Ice Snow Poems

The snow queen, white coat, white hair.
Her daughter, black top, black jeans
A wise queen an experienced mare
Guides her naïve, know-it-all teen
 
A diagnostic chart attached...

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Precipitate so white! 
What shivering delights!
Cool blankets ‘pon the brim, 
Though much more be quite grim, 
God moderates good gifts, 
    ...

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In the silence of snow
The great towers of silver
Dully reach skyward, glow

Languish on the darkening 
Horizon like winter storms 
Silent spires rise into a sky,...

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when I last looked
snow sprawled in
like an embrace from a foreign world
outdoor walk suspended
by squabbles of sleeted wet
unappealing chords
of ice pellets that stand hair on...

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From green to white to green
What a crazy mixed up scene

The weatherman's all confused
Methinks he's into the booze

If he starts a-guzzling gin
Most likely I'll be...

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Early morning    -     snow scattering
Landscape of white  -   sun reflecting
But not for long  -...

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Crossing the creek, thawing waters,
slide among the ice chips;
naked sentinels stretch to touch the 
heavens. Dressed in their translucent wraps.
Snowflakes crunch beneath our boots
as a...

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we did prepare for seasonal changes
flurries, fluttering flakes, melded snow, ice
but roads present unforeseen challenges
black ice sends vehicles across a slice
of pavement destroying the hidden...

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the snow was falling ...
         the wind blowing it in drifts ... here and there
  ...

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Sitting astride a frozen mountainside,
eighty others waiting their turn to go,
on the slope blue and red gates a path scribe,
a man says, “racer ready;” so...

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Where frosty flurries flourish
Sailing silver clouds stop,
Driving drips do nourish
Where would-be rains drop

Above a timbered tundra land
Laden lumber under showy snow,
Pretty piles of icy inches...

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No one predicted snow yesterday
but it came down heavy anyway.

Backyard birds sheltered
under any shelter they could.

Later that day
I put cleats on my boots
and duck-walked out
across...

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Snowy week ahead and I shall ski,

Kissing clouds, where lifts deposit me to vaulted heights.

Ice-capped peaks, snow drifts, and speckled trees,

I consume nature's eye candy,...

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Each naked tree embossed in hoar frost
Branches crisscrossed and snow tossed
Like glitter glossed in ice at nature's cost
Until I exhaust, here I'm happy to be...

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Sans seed - it’s not Spring now - green grass concealed.
Cute, cuddly happiness with floppy ears.
White rabbits leap, in the fluffy snow field,
when the zephyr...

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