White WildernessI recall the yelling but silent voice of winter
that broken December when the lights from
lanterns shot up from their wicks with the
fading strength of departing glows abroad.
Twilights hastened through the spine of
receding days, halting the approach of a
wayward Christmas.
The wilderness around us yielded froths from a
puking snowstorm,
fastening laces of Hell with strings of abundant
sleet....
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Categories:
christmas, life, winter,
Form: Free verse
Late Winter SurpriseHeart-shaped box of chocolates, late Winter surprise.
See sailor, in a dark uniform, hiding his eyes.
She knows him now, all too well, every inch of him.
This sailor, in a dark uniform, hiding his eyes.
A straight and narrow arrow flew from Cupid’s bowstring.
Struck sailor, in a dark uniform, hiding his eyes.
He had to open them then -...
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Categories:
winter, love, valentines day,
Form: Ghazal
Your LoveYour love is as welcome as a gentle summer breeze,
Feeling its depth brings me to my knees.
It's as soothing as a massage at the end of a long day,
Yet intriguing and exciting in its own way.
For lasting an eternity is that for which I pray,
...
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Categories:
winter, joy, love, seasons, soulmate,
Form: Rhyme
PareidoliaIt was all about a grim,
Foggy, smoggy, old Thursday night
In Hithergreen,
London’s belching south,
Below Europe’s icy, dark trees and
In the silence of grieving mornings . . .
Bulbous clouds bleeding with strained oomph
Would stir the ingravescence of patented ills.
The trains always come railing!
Railing loud and silly
Like heathen bandits with no shame.
But before such mornings,
A half-distilled liquored, low-brewed
Evening...
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Categories:
psychological, winter,
Form: Free verse
Summer PassingImpossible beauty, summer in swell,
Fragrance aflowing and fluttering around;
Though now, I admit, I don’t see it well,
I know – my ears! – all the birds by their sound.
Heaven surrounds me, but only for now;
Howling the winds that shall crash on my head;
Ripping the flowers that live on the bough,
Never see summer return in its stead.
Perhaps...
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Categories:
winter, age, beauty, death, howl,
Form: Sonnet
ChristmasChristmas is a long song sung in winter,
An epic poem written with white quill feather pen and
Gold ink, and on clouds of paper,
Beginning from a sneezing December to a
Dizzying twelfth-calendar month,
When snow drizzles gently into the souls of
Those who hearken to the tinkling sound of
The church bell which rings gently with the weight of
The slow-passing...
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Categories:
christmas, winter,
Form: Free verse
Winter Horse
Again the dreams, each dark cold night,
of a white horse, oh sweet delight;
he turns to me, waiting it seems,
each dark cold night, again the dreams.
The snow falls, each flake filigree,
waiting it seems, he turns to me;
a small bird sings, with sad birdcalls,
each flake filigree, the snow falls.
Oh ... be still, I ask my heartstrings,
with...
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Categories:
winter, dream, fantasy,
Form: Quatrain
Winter ViolinTime seems to be picking up speed
a freight train without engineer
Hendrix electric guitar on amphetamines.
Time is picking up speed
children born yesterday
wobbling off to college the next.
Time used to be gentle
like bike bells singing harmony
with a summer breeze.
somewhere. once upon a nursery rhyme
time became an indifferent brute.
A trickster taker-a mass grave maker
playing the shell game
whisking...
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Categories:
winter, time,
Form: Rhyme
Faded RoseMid-winter down south,
Climbing roses need pruning.
Blooms faded like youth..........
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Categories:
winter, appreciation, beauty, environment, flower,
Form: Haiku
Confronting Shadows
in the spring, when petals praise
within the song of grace who’ll amaze
beneath the silence of a gentle bud
there is a power, power in the blood
in the summer, when stories reveal
hope so sacred, sacred enough to heal
beyond the sun grows a life of wonder
singing exultation in the raging thunder
in the autumn, when leaves begin to weep
there...
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Categories:
winter, autumn, gospel, heaven, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Welsh Winter : englyn
weathering Wales in bleak winter is hard
though starred sheep remain sleek
taverns roaring fires a feat
making Celtic maidens sweet
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Categories:
winter, allusion, england, fire, how
Form: Englyn
Loneliness
Looking over my northern shoulder
at the changing shades of day
a weak winter sun turning twilight grey
teardrops of rain on the window
the gentle sigh of the wind
storm clouds in the evening sky
bring it all back again
poring over unwritten letters
in the solitude of night
a dim lit candle shining star white light
telephone silent unanswered
candlelight quietly dimmed
unwritten letters to...
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Categories:
winter, night, rain, romantic, romantic
Form: Rhyme
Winter's WishI reached a hand
Into the snow
The chilly ice
Once vibrant glow
It's Winter's wish
A painful spree
The absent warmth
Of no degree
Although I try
To stay alive
Your touch confirms
No love could thrive
Until the crystals
Of your heart
Can beat a path
Back to the start
I'll leave a message
By transient hand
No passer by
Shall understand
A heart-shaped sign
To melt...
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Categories:
winter,
Form: Rhyme
Summer's End
Burning like fever in the spring
our love affair was on the wing
then drifted away on the summer wind
now I'm thinking of you
how good it used to be
holding on to precious memories
and every teardrop has a tale to tell
every teardrop fills a wishing well
changing like autumn leaves that fall
your love it comes and goes
then melts away...
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Categories:
winter, autumn, lost love, romantic
Form: Rhyme
Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Winter 2Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about winter, cold, rain, rains, frost, frosts, snow, snowflakes, wind, children, childhood, hail, hail stones, winter life.
Mushroom-gathering,
rushing to beat
cold evening rains.
—Matsuo Basho, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Ceremonious
hailstones
assail my hinoki hat.
—Matsuo Basho, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Caught hatless
in a winter shower?
So it goes.
—Matsuo Basho, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
How...
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Categories:
winter, childhood, children, life, rain,
Form: Haiku
Specific Types of Winter Poems
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