A snowflake is
an iceberg
fallen into a warming sea
an iceberg is
an ocean wave
melted on the plastic shore
an ocean wave is
a hazy sky
pressing the humidex high
a hazy sky
is a raindrop
running on smokey cars
a raindrop is
a river rough
washing an empty salmon bed
a river rough
is a thirsty cup
pulled from a recycled path
a thirsty cup
is life returned
from our overflowing world.

∞

Submitted as part of “National/Global Poetry Writing Month” (#NaPoWriMo #GloPoWriMo).
Today’s prompt: write a poem that uses repetition. You can repeat a word, or phrase. You can even repeat an image, perhaps slightly changing or enlarging it from stanza to stanza, to alter its meaning. There are (perhaps paradoxically) infinite possibilities in repetition.

30 Poems in 30 Days

All text and photography © Dale Schierbeck

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