Winter Tidings
...Midwinter - means
transparent ice walls
pressed against shrinking skin.
Dead-eyed horses are revived
only by the steam of their nostrils.
No one predicts a beginning or an end,
'mid' is a f...
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Categories:
toboggan, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Stick Figures in Front of Oldsmobile
...Skinny kids
Wrinkled clothes
Crooked windows
Non-symmetrical
Snowman slightly off center
The “Olds”
Wrinkled fenders
A round-headed driver
A teetering toboggan
Hanging from its roof
The a...
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Categories:
toboggan, age, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Find Us on Plenty of Fish
...Desi DeRotten was not easily forgotten
She only wore cotton, and was easily besotten.
Missy Fit heard about her, and got sick a bit.
She has incredible wit, unless she senses a nitwit.
Swede Gl...
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Categories:
toboggan, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Buddha Meets Santa
...Santa sailed upon his sleigh
and came upon Buddha one day,
greeting him with a cry.
Saying, I'm bringing toys
to good girls and boys,
as on this toboggan I fly.
Yep, I'm a plump, jolly fair...
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Categories:
toboggan, christmas, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Ruby Red
...
Ruby Red, toboggan on her head,
Loved every creature God would send.
The first came, with a little wing lame,
For Ruby Red to nurse and tend.
This little white dove did Ruby love
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Categories:
toboggan, animal, best friend, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Crystalline Dreams
...Cold is the white crystalline night
As the snowflakes gently fall
A pristine sight by candlelight
Casting shadows on the wall
Snuggly in bed my weary head
Begins drifting off to sl...
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Categories:
toboggan, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Snow Day
...The snow is still coming down extremely hard
Snowmen are springing up almost in everyone's yard
Schools have decided to close giving the kids a snow day
My driveway will have to wait,the family in...
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Categories:
toboggan, family, snow,
Form: Rhyme
SNOW-RYUS
...the dog made angels
the cat gave me "that" look
...the shovel waited
the power lines sag
sparrows draped in white capes
...aw...
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Categories:
toboggan, family, fun, snow, winter,
Form: Senryu
Ice
...lively winter noon
kids push toboggan downhill ~
merriment on ice
Ice, Snow or Frost Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Tania Kitchin
Word chosen: Ice
Syllables ch...
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Categories:
toboggan, children, fun, imagery, nature,
Form: Haiku
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:
toboggan, allusion, angst, childhood, children,
Form: Free verse
Futile Escape Out Clutches of Penury Rattle Tin Can Twice
...Yours truly dug deep with bony strength
in tandem with fantasy notions know
king around in figurative heady
toboggan noggin like cranial carapace
to muster every ounce of strength
in an effo...
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Categories:
toboggan, absence, abuse, addiction, america,
Form: Free verse
Walking On a Frozen Lake
...February and its much-vaunted chill
comes down with vengeance, and does what it will,
this lake that in summer jams full with boats
is now frozen over, nothing can float.
Most people stay home ...
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Categories:
toboggan, appreciation, imagery, mountains, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
School Was Never Cancelled
...I remember plodding through the snow
From my grandma’s house to the bus stop,
Listening to the sounds of the tire chains
The school bus thumping along icy roads,
But school was never ...
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Categories:
toboggan, school, snow, weather, winter,
Form: Free verse
Toboggan
...TOBOGGAN
Freezing fingers, freezing toes,
Running eyes and bright red nose.
But he’s oblivious to the pain
As he clambers up again
Then hurtling down the hill he goes
15th De...
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Categories:
toboggan, snow,
Form: Quintain (English)
Days of My Youth
..."Dreams are a form of time travel
without the jet lag"... Poet.
On Christmas Eve, I dreamt of the days of my youth;
back to when I'd toboggan down snow-covered hills.
And ski, althoug...
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Categories:
toboggan, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
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