Poems: 'Glaciers' and 'Glaciated Landscapes'

 

Glaciers

I am a glacier

Alone and solitary

Slowly fading

Dying…

 

My rugged terrain is stark in the snow

I’m pummelled by falling ice

The sky's the shade of ash

The wind bites at my sturdy peaks

My mounts scrape the heavens

 

I am a glacier

Alone and solitary

Slowly fading

Dying…

I feel guilt when I strand lone animals

I break slowly down

I feel remorse, alone

I break slowly down

I feel forgotten watching the seas of white

I break slowly down

 

I am a glacier

Alone and solitary

Slowly fading

Dying…

 If you don’t stop this madness

We will all die

There's no stopping us

It's your fault

Or your redemption

 Iris Haigh

Glaciated Landscapes

Ice as blue as a sparkling sapphire 

Crevasses as deep as despair 

Snow as white as fluffy clouds fluttering flamboyantly across the sky

Icebergs carving off the sharp dangerous edges

Extreme chilling winds stabbing you like daggers

 

Monty Palmer