Steel to snow
The antagonistic snow bank
An unsurpassable mound
Raised 8 feet high above the ground
Where burrowing children could be found
Drudging out the door;
Boots dragging on the floor
Pushing past the pinching wind
The coldness piercing cleansing the sinned
Blanketing the tree tops,
Refusing to match all spots
Icy layers grasping the frost
All progress made now lost
Further down the driveway
Prints trail off towards the road
Where the plough has dropped it’s load
Conveniently it plops at the end of the abode
Adding to my work again today;
The antagonistic snow bank
An unsurpassable mound
Raised 8 feet high above the ground
Where burrowing angry shovel’rs can be found!
Author notes
Written March 4th, 2005
In a list
A contest entry
- Christmas Poems (Family Oriented)Contest by misticmoonlite.
350 points, ended December 11, 2005, 12 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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this reminds me of my streets, shovel and here comes the plough and closed back up and here we go again, the steel sure knows how to do it's best to make a winter harder on the people who struggle to get out, great entry, thank you for entring and good luck in OUR contest..Linda
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this is cute, never fails to have the ploughs stuff more in the wrong place, and don't ya hate it when they cover your shovels and ya have to dig to find it by hand , good write here, thank you for entering and good luck in the contest..Andy
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thanks a bunch! I particularly liked the endings and how it just seems to plough through and drop right into place.
thought of this last year while I saw my dad shoveling, returning inside, took off his boots, tied them back up and went to flip off the plough driver
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Poetry written in lighthearted jest usually aren't my cup of tea, but I gave space for this one in my heart. It is funny and you brought some of my laughter back to prepare me for the cold winter nights up here in New England.
A cute and sappy, but lovely and gorgeous piece of poetry.
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this poem makes me feel really cold..and you use great words to great a visual of what you are writing about...i hope you do well in the comp :-)
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Beautifully written
Kryspin,
I liked this poem a lot. It made me smile. Your words, I could picture them. I'm just looking outside right now and there is a ton of snow out there. Just last night we got more snow! Sigh... when will it end? I always love the first snow fall, but after having it since November, I want a change! (4monts of this is enough) I hope that you won't have to shovel too much snow, it isn't fair, is it! I'm out in the country and my father plows out our driveway. Anyways, beautiful words. I thank you so very much for entering my contest and wish you all the best.
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Kalen
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