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Frozen-A collaboration with Shane Cooper


The frozen sap of mirthless trees,
The fractured flow of icy streams.

The howling wind that claws at life, 
The forest shrouded in endless white.

Skeletal ice hangs from warm lit homes,
....brittle fingers, glacial bones!

Gibbous moon with light unclean, 
Casting shadows barely seen.

Wide tongues of sleet lick hands and feet, 
Frost etched people on lacquered streets.

Witches Sabbat the darkest rite,
All doors are barred on Halloween night!

Children sleeping, tucked tight in bed,
While witches brooms fly overhead.

Cock’s crow sounds in the dark of night,
Putting the cabal to frenzied flight!

The children waken then start to yawn,
Their smiling faces greet the new dawn.

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Ovidiu Bocsa Date: 12/4/2016 7:46:00 AM With much admiration as always, today I rested with my nose flattened by looking through your magic window with white icy-flowers.
Gary Bateman Date: 11/15/2016 11:10:00 AM Hello Mikki!! I'm really glad that I caught this collaborated couplet write by you and Shane Cooper. What a real treat to read -- for sure. I've written my fair share couplets and heroic couplets, but this one is an insightful and exciting write for sure. The words, the pitch, and the tenor of this write are "Muy Excellente"!! SEVEN/FAV!! Cheers and Best, Gary
Carolyn Devonshire Date: 11/3/2016 1:18:00 PM Autumn must be very cold where you live, Michelle. You and Shane write well together and I could not figure out who wrote which verses. You have created some fine images of the cold weather, and especially vivid is that witch flying over children's home. Awesome!
daver austin Date: 10/26/2016 11:17:00 AM "Gibbous moon with light unclean...Casting shadows barely seen" I like this image for a Halloween night. And then the children sleeping neath all the spookiness. Love, daver
Ovidiu Bocsa Date: 10/20/2016 2:16:00 PM As I touch and see ”The frozen sap of mirthless trees,/The fractured flow of icy streams”...a feeling of kind of solitude and hope flows along of your verses, but not frozen is your soul ready to greet the new dawns of poetry.Best regards.
Shane Cooper Date: 10/14/2016 8:08:00 PM Hello there Mikki, Thank you so much for letting me walk down the yellow brick road a little way with you my friend. The world looks so much better "with tangerine trees and marmalade skies" !!!! :-)
Poet Destroyer A Date: 10/13/2016 11:24:00 AM Shane Cooper is one of my favorite poets. I love the 3rd couplet set. The imagery and flow are perfect no wonder why Jan&Tim gave the lovely collaboration two thumbs up. Make it three... a fav... Linda
JAN ALLISON Date: 10/13/2016 8:33:00 AM The imagery is fabulous Michelle and Shane - a wonderful collaboration:-) so glad to see you back on the site with Shane:-) a fave:-) hugs Jan xx
Tim Smith Date: 10/13/2016 8:15:00 AM This is terrific Michelle and Shane...the flow was spot on...really loved it...a fav