Ice Aged

[ChristopherSea]

final version

Ice Aged

Water frozen
since the Pleistocene
flows unobtrusively.
Cro-Magnon dreams
and labors have eroded,
strewn as drumlin
burial mounds.

The glacier entombs
careless hominids,
disabled mastodons
and overzealous dire wolves,
who will serve as TV-dinners
for sociopathic sharks
yet to evolve.

Abraded bedrocks groan,
as advancing icy teeth
march over them
to chomp at the sea,
then calve into brine.

Illuminated on clear nights,
the ice glows pale blue
within obsidian waves.
Exhaling fog,
it deliquesces,
releasing ancient secrets
and new delicacies
to inhabitants of the abyss.

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Cider/Heslo/TrueE edit 4 Thanksmuch!

Ice Aged

Water frozen
since the Pleistocene
flows unobtrusively.
Cro-Magnon dreams
and labors have eroded,
strewn as drumlin
burial mounds.

The glacier entombs
careless hominids,
disabled mastodons
and overzealous dire wolves,
who will serve as TV-dinners
for sociopathic sharks
yet to evolve.

Abraded bedrocks groan,
as advancing icy teeth
march over them
to chomp at the sea,
then calve into brine.

Illuminated on clear nights,
the ice glows pale blue
within obsidian waves.
Exhaling fog,
it deliquesces,
releasing ancient secrets
and new delicacies
to inhabitants of the abyss.


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Cider/Heslo edit 3 Thanksmuch!

Ice Aged

Water frozen
since the Pleistocene
flows unobtrusively.
Cro-Magnon dreams
and labors have eroded,
strewn as drumlin burial mounds.

The ice bears careless hominids,
disabled mastodons
and overzealous dire-wolves,
now frozen TV-dinners
for sociopathic sharks
that have not yet evolved.

Abraded bedrocks groan,
as advancing icy teeth
march over them
to chomp at the sea,
then calve into brine.

Illuminated on clear nights,
the ice glows pale blue
within obsidian waves.
Exhaling fog,
it deliquesces,
releasing ancient secrets
and new delicacies
to inhabitants of the abyss.

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Cider/Heslo edit 1 (quick edit more to follow, thanks!)

Ice Aged

Water frozen
since the Pleistocene
flows unobtrusively.
Cro-Magnon dreams
and labors have eroded,
strewn as drumlin burial mounds.

The ice bears careless hominids,
disabled mastodons
and overzealous dire-wolves,
now frozen TV-dinners
for sociopathic sharks
that have not yet evolved.

Abraded bedrocks groan,
as advancing icy teeth
march over them
to chomp at the sea,
then calve into brine.

Illuminated on clear nights,
the ice glows pale blue
in the obsidian waves.

Exhaling fog,
it deliquesces,
releasing ancient secrets
and new delicacies
to inhabitants of the abyss.


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Defrost

Water frozen since the Pleistocene
appears to flow unobtrusively,
yet Cro-Magnon dreams
and Neanderthal labors have eroded,
strewn as glacial drumlin.

The ice bears careless Hominids,
disabled Mastodons
and overzealous Dire Wolves,
now frozen TV-dinners
for psychopathic sharks
that have not yet evolved.

Metamorphic bedrocks groan,
as advancing icy teeth
chomp at the sea,
then calve into brine.

Illuminated on clear nights,
the ice glows pale blue
in the obsidian waves.
Exhaling fog, it deliquesces,
releasing ancient secrets
and delicacies
to inhabitants of the abyss.