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Ice Heart
by Eileen Clemens Granfors → (All Poetry by Eileen Clemens Granfors)
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No one wants to freeze out the world.


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Kafka wrote of our frozen seas, clashing upon our hearts,

Broken by the ice-axe of books and words.

Foreigner sang “She’s as cold as ice,”

Forgetting that there was fire inside her too.

Robert Frost commented that he knew enough of hate

To say that destruction by ice would suffice.

My question of poets, pundits, songsters is this,

"Who creates that ice?"

 

We are born with warm and open hearts,

Needing little but love and shelter.

Particle by particle of criticism and cynicism

Replaces the unblemished heart

With ice made of anger

And hunger

For more of what is good and free

Unchained to simply be

Me.

 

 

 

 


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 Reviews of "Ice Heart"
Reviewed by Jms Bell
Reviewed on February 9, 2012
LIGHT IS NEVER SHINES AS BRIGHT...AS WHEN IT SHINES IN DARKNESS. A FROZEN HEART THAT HAS BEEN 'MELTED' BY THE WARMTH OF THE SUN, HAS NEVER BEEN MORE BEAUTIFULLY 'REFINED' AND THUS COMES FORTH WITH 'TREASURES'...AS PURE GOLD. FOR EVERYTHING...THERE IS A SEASON. WELL DONE AND ENJOYED. THANKS FOR SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS

Reviewed by Barbara Henry
Reviewed on September 2, 2010
Eileen,
What a thought provoking,beautifully written poem!
It speaks volumes about the influences in and on our lives;I especially like the last verse.
To your continued success~
Barbara Henry

Reviewed on June 25, 2010
great verse to ponder and wonder about ones heart, cheers

Reviewed by Paul Judges
Reviewed on June 25, 2010
Well composed, Eileen

Reviewed by Michelle Mead
Reviewed on June 24, 2010
Great photo-I wanted to freeze the world out until recently, after the death of my brother and best friend. It was like I wanted to hibernate. So I can relate well to this, as eventually, if you want to live, you have to venture back out in the snow.

Reviewed by dan Rosenhagen
Reviewed on June 24, 2010
Who created the ice you ask?
One must think of an entire lake which is water.
Rather in the liquid state or frozen it is water nontheless.
Love is as the water and can be frozen or bear the fire of passion.
They are the same but only to be seen from the perspective of one who chooses not to see it as the whole but rather to only see one perspective of the entire thing,
leaving the one who sees it empty of the wisdom of what stands before him.
as the woman then still remains complete and the observer then becomes the coldness of which he can only see.

Reviewed on June 24, 2010
a deeply wonderful offering Eileen
which gives to me the renewing importance to
send out love to people-especially those
with hearts of stone & ice glaciers & the "Ice Heart"(s)
they are sorely stuck inside a very impoverishing prison
Love returns to us even greater joy when given away
Love's Bounty & Melting Embrace
Vickie

Reviewed by J'nia Fowler
Reviewed on June 24, 2010
Little by little, criticism, cynicism, and crocodile tears threaten to overtake our sensibilities. Do we erect wall to keep them out or to keep them in? Much to ponder here. Thank you, J'nia

Reviewed by Patrick Granfors
Reviewed on June 23, 2010
Does this mean I'm back in the dog house again??? One little critical comment.......:-)p

Reviewed by D Johnson
Reviewed on June 23, 2010
Echoing what others have said, your writing is clear, clean and totally pure.

Cheers,
Dan

Reviewed by Dayvid Graybill
Reviewed on June 23, 2010
Well written and very true!

Peace,
Dayvid

Reviewed by Nicole Weaver
Reviewed on June 23, 2010
Eileen,
My goodness, you are such a good writer! This poem is so very well expressed, Bravo!
Nicole

Reviewed by Felix Perry
Reviewed on June 23, 2010
Round of applause so much truth in these lines and expressed so well...
fee


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