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The glacial Lake Louise looks spectacular in winter as it freezes,

Banff National Park overwhelms as ice scattered in a deluge to enchant the penguins.

Mesmerised with the stupefied southernmost continent ,

Antartica is covered with ice in a diverse surreal blue glaciers to rejoice.

While ice - hockey is a splendid game of ice among six players in a team ,

To propel a volcanized rubber disk , the puck past a goal line into a net guarded by a goalee.

The players wear ice scates and helmets and compete on an ice rink,

Winter skiing and ice hockey in Canada;

Is excellent for winter sports to render joy and enjoy in a paradise.

Covered with vast sheet of ice in an archipelago,

Antartica is world's highest , driest , windiest, coldest and iciest continent so divine.

Around the coast , shelves, glaciers and ice sheets continually calve icebergs into the seas,

Reminiscences of the much acclaimed English film TITANIC, Was shot at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, in Mexico in a superb charismatic fervour.

Sharing a passionate kiss as Rose and Jack returned ,

To the top deck in the backseat of a car in the ship's cargo hold.

Frederick Fleet warned the crew of an iceberg right ahead,

A dark object looming in the mist;

Indicated a peril which was significant to generate terror in each passenger in the deck.

Mount Rainer triggers an astonishment with the dormant volcano whose glacier ice cover exceeds further,

It comprises of 26 glaciers mounting to five times of the glacier area of all other Cascade volcanoes.

Beating the ice slabs into pieces to arrange a comfortable drink or wine ,

Soothes our soul when we deliberately seek an ice candy from a vendor usually in summers in the streets or malls.

When there is a scar or deep injury ,

A piece of ice acts like a quick medication or a first aid so remarkably.

Rubbing ice cubes over the face for beauty signatures ,

We are all dependent on this transparent piece to sustain us life.

During the cases of prolong wait over anyone's death ,

The morgues are a relief when human corpses are preserved with bountiful ice slabs to gather.

To help in reducing body temperature during high fever ,

The doctors often advise to keep the body over the ice sheets to comfort the patient.

Snowman built of ice and snow in cold regions,

Cheers us all to enjoy winter and celebrate Christmas.

Santa brings joy over his sledge at par excellence ,

While he rides on his sledge the reindeers passes the snowfilled paths in a beautitude.

The igloo is built with compressed snow while building blocks ,

Then stack the blocks around a circular terraced hole in the snowy ground with much labour .

Solid ice is not a very good insular compared to compressed snow,

As the inuits built igloo on their hunting trips to protect them from cold.

Glaciers in various mountain ranges have shown intermittent readvances ,

Deglaciation or glacial shrinkage has lead to global warming at large which is so alarming.

Ice is a drug which stimulates the brain and the nervous system,

To me it is a crystal that soothes the skin whenever I'm emotionally emboldened towards its utility to humans.

SOMDATTA MITRA