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Ten Years from Now | Jim Bellamy

Cold, grey city
with cold, grey faces,
hands in pockets,
eyes expressionless and pale.

Queues of resigned people,
standing years apart,
each one thinking thoughts
that the other can’t impart.

Five foolish girls
share a forbidden fag,
glancing over their shoulders
with stilettos in a bag.

And in ten years time,
when they have been moulded
into mature, married women,
they will stand

In queues of resigned people,
standing years apart
in their own allotted spaces,
choking in the dark.

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Swimming in Antarctica | Ciarán Parkes

October 25, 2023 / Best Poetry / antarctica poems, cold poems, contemporary poetry, swimming poems, tragedy poems / 2 Comments

How she accepts it. How she enters willingly
into the cold. How her skin, almost immediately,
becomes cold as the water is, her body’s heat

pushed deep down under, to protect
her internal organs, that flush with blood, that float
like fish in some warm Mesozoic ocean

as her heartbeat thunders round them, as they move,
just for now, companionable, together.
She sees penguins on the dipping, rising shore

and people bundled up who look like penguins,
black against the snow. Her back up team
lean from their inflatables as she threshes water

up like bed sheets, speeding, swimming faster
than she ever swam before, to generate
more warmth, to stay alive, then something

shifting inside her as she starts to swim
straight out to sea, moving so fast they
can do nothing now but watch her slip away.

(First published in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily)

Nature’s Breath | Sandra Henry

June 1, 2023 / Best Poetry / breath poems, cold poems, contemporary poetry, nature poems, read a poem, winter poems / 2 Comments

Winter’s cold silence
coats the slumbering trees
in a grey stillness.
Nature’s breath lingers
like a dull haze
hanging in the chilly air.
Droplets of ice form
like crystal beads
hanging from the branches’ tips.
Not a sound is heard
nor is anything stirring
in the frozen calm.
Breathe in this icy peace
For soon it will melt and seep back
into the pulsing veins of life.

Winter Feelings | Julia Shaw

May 9, 2023 / Best Poetry / cold poems, original poetry, rain poems, read poetry, the seasons poems, winter poems / Leave a Comment

I dread the winter’s coming on
The trees without their dressings
I fear the winter’s dark, cold moan
Long shadows without blessings

Bare tree limbs are upward reaching
Where the sunlight seems to fail
I hear the sound of great owls screeching
Trees look like witch”s fingernails

I hate the cold that winter brings
Dark, dank weather for each day
It seems as if I’ll never sing
Or see again sun’s lovely rays

My body aches and hollow feels
Furnace and fireplace are roaring on
But to me they don’t seem real
No heat can reach into my bones

Oh, winter will you last so long
With dreary rain and colder mist
Oh, how I wish that you were gone
And Spring would put on me it’s kiss