Shivering Shimmer
A Growing Poem
Shivers
Icicle droplets
Skyfall towards earth
Nurturing, seedlings reaching out
Waves shimmering across sheet ice
Crashing over rainbow rocks relentlessly scattered
Air gracefully glides around every surface rapidly
Goosebumps popping as snow geese fly over head
Raven coasts the breeze observing everything without fear
Beady eyes, loud cries, the flap of power, boundless
Shiver at the sheer audacity of life creating you, effortless
You are just water falling, shimmering, crashing, relentless, graceful and boundless
~
This was a little poetry prompt I tried out with a friend, where each line has another word added. Sometimes a poem can just keep going forever, but finding a way to tie it all back together is where it gets climactic I suppose.
If you'd like to read any of my other poems, feel free to check out the one below.
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Oneg In The Arctic
A queer storyteller and poet of arctic adventures, good food, identity, mental health, and more.
Co-founder of Queer Vocal Voices
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Kids skip cross clear ice Crackling below, listen Qalupalik comes ~ In Inuit folklore, the Qalupaliit are strange creatures that live below the ice and in bodies of water in the Arctic. They are a cautionary tale told to children who misbehave and don’t listen. The tale is told to also scare children from going too far out on the ice alone, for they can be snatched and never returned.
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"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
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Comments (9)
Using the italics makes it look like icicles , great words
Lyrical.
Such gorgeous language. I loved the format!
Amazing!! Last line of “you are just water falling” wow! ❤️❤️
This is fantastic. Love the format. Well done.
Beautiful!! Really love this 😍
Nice!!! Very Canadian!!! Excellent work.
Magnificent 💕😊💖
Stunning! ❄️💕