Snow Warming Poems

February 27th Lower Peninsula of Michigan
One week of true cold and snow is all
This year
Today is the warmest day ever recorded
For this entire month

An ancient...

Read More

it is snowing

slow
monotonous snow
with the patience of a lazy bear
it falls
across the church (now, an antique shop)
on the left, the abandoned house, tonight, wishes
may she...

Read More

Just before Christmas 2021
A historic wind storm
Setting a new norm
Swept across us all

Continental Divide sigh
I told you so

Tornadoes spun from Minnesota snow
Blew out a Kentucky...

Read More

My mind comes alive during the witching hour
Sensuous and sharp the lines begin to flow,
While themes and phrases like blooms flower

In the garden, now dark,...

Read More

I.

The Fish Crow is an outcast amongst the seagulls
Standing on the hot Miami sand
At the end
Of our rose-colored beach towel

Nodding and blabbing half-heartedly
Nuh-uh nuh-uh
To the...

Read More

White Hot Christmas
by Michael R. Burch

I’m back from my jog;
it felt like summer
on Christmas Eve.
What a bummer!
Forget the sleigh, Santa,
hire a Hummer....

Read More

Long ago upon the shore, the last remaining Stegosaur
A chill wind blew where ferns once used to sway
And this may not be topical, but dinosaurs...

Read More

Global warming is not here, they said, but it's been a weird winter 
Our winters are usually long, with tons of snow, cold and bitter
We...

Read More

Oceans become warmer causing winds to blow warmer.
Glaciers melt and subside making the oceans rise.
Less snow less rain drying up the rivers and planes.
Fires wild...

Read More

The Heat, and not the sports team
Has come here for a while
It's enough to set some records
And to kill the farmers smiles

Humidity and high temperatures
Add...

Read More

I walked out of my house today
and to my great surprise,
two feet of global warming lay
atop my car and drive.
I own no snow-blower see,
so out...

Read More

Global warming

Antartica ice
ruining homes for animals
global warming why...

Read More

#1
planetary caution
shards of ice slow river’s flow -
wet dreams in winter

#2 
pieces float seaward
season’s broken spirit weeps –
humpty dumpty earth

#3
glaciers slide downhill
seasonal creep advancing -
uncertain...

Read More

Global Warming
1:
planet’s yellow light
shards of ice slow river’s flow -
wet dreams in winter

2:
pieces float seaward
season’s broken spirit weeps –
humpty dumpty earth

3:
glaciers slide downhill
seasonal creep advancing...

Read More

As I wake up to the dawn of another day
I wrestle with myself and ask why bother
Just another day, without any warmth
There is a chill...

Read More