A City Beautiful
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Ottawa, Ontario
once a desolate snowfield
now, a city of Gothic
and Victorian buildings downtown
with stunning glassed towers
a mingling of architecture's
copper-roofe...
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Categories:
snowfield, city,
Form: Name
My Confession and Ask
...My Confession and Request
to Someone
A sin is circulating over me, hanging our life, gallows
Someone needed love, only some dust of and from love
A touch from you is just a hoped kindness fro...
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Categories:
snowfield, fate, grave, i love
Form: Free verse
The Night Before Christmas
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'Twas the night before Christmas that was freezing cold,
my 5-year old granddaughter couldn't keep elation on hold,
for she knew, for her Santa would bring at night nice gift.
So, she wanted t...
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Categories:
snowfield, christmas, granddaughter,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas Night Story Poem
...The Christmas night a long time ago was freezing cold,
a six year old he couldn’t keep the excitement on hold,
for the lovely gifts for him Santa would bring,
wanted the night to fly away quickl...
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Categories:
snowfield, childhood, christmas, memory,
Form: Narrative
The Night Before Christmas
...Twas the night before Christmas that was freezing cold
As a seven year old I couldn’t keep excitement on the hold
For I knew for me all the lovely gifts Santa would bring
Wished the hours of nig...
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Categories:
snowfield, childhood, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Ekphrasis On Snow At Argenteuil
...footprints carved on a crystalline carpet
the winding traces of morning skaters
on teal and ivory rugged snowfield
lead me to his quiet hometown
the bare trees that surround me
are like dancin...
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Categories:
snowfield, appreciation, art, love,
Form: Ekphrasis
Christmas Memory
...The night of one Christmas a long time ago was icy cold,
as a seven year old I couldn’t keep excitement in hold,
for I knew all the lovely gifts for me Santa would bring,
wanted the hour...
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Categories:
snowfield, childhood, christmas, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Death's Less Than Nothing
...Death’s Less Than Nothing!
Death’s less than nothing, a frail, not one welcomes or offers a cold one /
a glass of fine wine. Death is nobody’s friend one might meet on thi...
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Categories:
snowfield, death,
Form: Rhyme
Her Night Before Christmas
...The night before last year’s Christmas was freezing cold,
my little granddaughter couldn’t keep excitement in hold,
for she knew all the lovely gifts for her Santa would bring,
wanted the nightl...
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Categories:
snowfield, christmas, granddaughter, joy, night,
Form: Rhyme
To Live and To Love
...White crystals glitter, a snowfield of light.
The silence fallen, a spirit's delight.
The pointing fingers, deep in delusion.
The ends, not the means, make the decision.
The challenge is known, t...
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Categories:
snowfield, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Snow White
...a snowfield yonder
retina stabbing brilliance
a million eyes gazed...
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Categories:
snowfield, light, snow,
Form: Free verse
The Night Before Christmas
...‘Twas the night before Christmas,
my small granddaughter, excited over the party gorgeous,
and for the gifts Santa would bring for her,
wanted the nightly hours of wait to be soon over.
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Categories:
snowfield, christmas, granddaughter,
Form: Rhyme
Winterlude
...Spokes of winter
freeze the soul
and wake the mind
Diamante snowfield
that the North Wind
hath designed
Smokes of cold breath
curl the sky
then dissipate
Air forged into steel
The outer d...
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Categories:
snowfield, winter,
Form: Rhyme
One Must Remain:
...Like a thunderbolt through the heart,
She was beauty, a work of art,
A snowfield on a summer's day,
She was an angel here to stay.
Such loving eyes to gaze upon,
How could I ever do he...
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Categories:
snowfield, angst, conflict, love,
Form: Sonnet