Climatic Chess Game
...Spring and winter are wrestling with March
One day it is seventy-two and almost balmy
By that evening we are in danger of getting frostbite
For two days we are running around in shorts.
The thi...
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Categories:
snowsuits, seasons,
Form: Blank verse
Walk Through Winter
...A walk in the winter
How I missed this
Evergreens with light fresh snow laced on all the branches
pine needles fall
Feel that blustery wind kiss
Arctic enchantment
There is nothing else like th...
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Categories:
snowsuits, death, life, nature, poems,
Form: Free verse
Winter Is Here
...Winter Is Here
Winter has come! (The season for fun)
Sing with cheer to those near,
“Bring out the boots and tuques,
Parkas and scarfs, mitts and snowsuits,
And long underwear,
And...
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Categories:
snowsuits, fun, snow, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Frozen Solid
...w I n d
swinging heavy with flakes
winter's underbelly chilling fingers and toes
on a Kyiv hill
in wounded wisps of snow
two small girls in boxy blue snowsuits
share the plastic...
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Categories:
snowsuits, allusion, angst, childhood, children,
Form: Free verse
October Weather In Missouri
...it will be twenty-nine degrees tonight
where are my snowsuits and mittens?
tearing off my outerwear now.
wanting to strip down to my knickers
high of 81 at three this afternoon
football cheers a...
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Categories:
snowsuits, weather,
Form: Free verse
Winter Comes Early In the Mountains
...Rugged mountain peaks are now snow-capped
Wintry weather creeps down with passing days,
The lips on the blossoms are faded and chapped.
Many of the larger critters are sadly trapped,...
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Categories:
snowsuits, animal, mountains, snow, weather,
Form: Villanelle
Frolic
...gravitating together,
children - puffy fat in snowsuits - grasp
one another's mittened hands,
in-line unison,
their fall backwards into a soft ridge of snow
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Categories:
snowsuits, childhood, cute, encouraging, joy,
Form: Free verse
Body: True Story
...I stood on a wheat-grassed hill,
It's crest a overpass.
Pine rows below overgrown.
Forming into forest behind.
My childhood grounds.
Three boys, friends in time
Winter of "78"
When clouds dr...
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Categories:
snowsuits, age,
Form: Free verse
Inviting
...
Lips puffy
like kids in snowsuits
Cellular layers of passion
Dramatic curves
like red apples
But soft
Moveable
Sensory organ
pulling me near
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Categories:
snowsuits, appreciation, beauty, desire, for
Form: Free verse
Best Christmas Day Ever
...Christmas snow began falling in earnest
Before the children awoke
And many were up by five
Squeals and delight filled homes
as they noted the fast snow from their
picture windows,
Presents...
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Categories:
snowsuits, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Winter In Canada
...Winter in Canada was once a joyous time
Back then, it signaled igloos and snowsuits divine
So cute and cuddly
Faces all ruddy
A joy to live in the north no matter the clime...
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Categories:
snowsuits, winter,
Form: Limerick
Winter Rhapsody
...Winter rhapsody, the snowflakes ascending slowly,.
Reaching the rooftops and houses.
Winter rhapsody, pedestrians in their winter clothes,
Warm caps snowsuits ,coats and boots,
Winter rhap...
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Categories:
snowsuits, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, god,
Form: Free verse
Christmas Magic For Ed
...Conflicted, dressed like a Santa Claus, Ed ponders the magical delight of Christmas time. Is it only for Christians, or can it be for him too? He likes this time of year, people are nice.
Bethleh...
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Categories:
snowsuits, christian, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Snowshoe Adventure
...It was supposed to be
A simple snowshoe expedition
Nothing glamorous or too exciting
But the day started out magnificent
Gloriously sunny and mild
Ideal for newbies and amateurs
It felt like a ...
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Categories:
snowsuits, adventure, fire, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
My Winter
...Gearing up to what should be magical
Special winter to be a first of firsts
Brand spanking new at the grand-parent thing
Marshmallow snowsuits, sleighs and Santa Claus
First fluffy snowflakes fal...
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Categories:
snowsuits, baby, christmas, confusion, fantasy,
Form: Verse
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