Short Snowdrift Poems

winter
arrives late
in the forest-
a stoat melts into the
snowdrift
...

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winter
arrives late
in the forest-
a stoat melts into the
snowdrift

May 10 2019

Writing Challenge 1, May 2019 - Cinqku- Poetry Contest

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UNDER THE EQUATOR

                  santa sweats
       tree lights swelter rainbows
                   snowdrift dreams

                    Winter's lost
               wanders serengetti  
                     heading North...

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The snowflakes drift and dance around
Melt on our bodies, make no sound
Only muffled breathing heard
We make love with not a word

We fall into a snowdrift deep
Our balance had no way to keep
Not a flake between us fell
As we collapsed into the dell

We know not what the future holds
Just filled with love, as life unfolds...

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Joyful Rudolph with a snickery snack snoop
Slid into the snowdrift his fluff tail in a droop.
We watched him slide in to the reindeer group
Hello! Yelped Dasher’s wife, Ms. Loop-de-loop.

Joyful Rudolph! Come over here! Sit by me!
This was a call from a Christmas elf near yonder tree.
Rudolph was in demand, his time was anything but free.
Go on! Yelped Ms. Loop-de-loop. You’re on my hoof, you see!...

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How dumb I was
when I danced into that 
countryside floral 
patched square of greenery 
and
an expectation that was no more than a rogue wave,
tilted and uncanny as the solar eclipse,
washed me up like a dead seal
to your shore of lure and promise,
hot and heavy as a snowdrift, 
then changed into
the finality of a shipwreck.
I was the aftermath of young parents,
who toured the ruins of Athens
before they hit thirty....

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IMAGE PHRASIS II
Seeds of summer grasses wait quietly
‘neath the snowdrift,osier shoots burst 
forth below a gossamer welt,on a 
hanging thread.Fine dry easterlies flurries
silent as a grave,sunlight flickers through 
tall lifeless trees and falters as shadowed
silhouettes recall sepia memories.A trail 
of nows which echo to a distant horizon. 
From my Twist&Slant 2005
Listen to me recite this part phrasis on youtube under my pen name ichthys chiro...

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You're a horse with an idiot paint job,
all zig-zaggy blacketty-white
you stand out when you're in a snowdrift
and can't even hide in the night.
Outrunning a Cheetah you canna
not graceful like any Gazelle
for living out on the Savanna
your life must be probably hell.
I once tried your flesh on Safari
at a camp where we had barbecue
so to add insult to injury
ugly Warthog tastes better than you.

For contest 'To a …... ' sponsored by David Lindsay...

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