TIPS ABOUT ICEBERGS
By Debra Moolenaar
Want tips about icebergs?
you gotta understand, once melted
they’re useless as crystal broken,
deadly as shivering sands.
They drift in cashmere sierras,
slink against silk clouds,
sulk in velvet auras plunging, never
speaking aloud.
They ring in Ramadan and Christmas
two poles juxtaposed;
one a flipped cathedral and
the other a seismic hole.
Icebergs forge the future,
global crises, human hopes.
they pit the adventurer against his dream,
force star crossed lovers to work as a team.
Want tips about icebergs?
yes, of course, you yap. Everyone
desires to navigate the spires
of the polar ice caps.
Well, then, swim to the Gulf Stream, sail
where not a single flower grows. Stand
on the brink, frozen, empty,
anything goes.