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Best Winter Poems

Below are the all-time best Winter poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of winter poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member A Winter Rose - a Sonnet
I walk through the glistening virgin snow
That covers the sorrow of autumn’s death 
Where I find on a bush a frozen rose  
Its beauty...

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Categories: rose, winter,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Winter Blues - I Cry For Color
I shiver tears.
My joie de vivre;
summer esprit’s lemon zest,
lilac flirts and coral whispers 
have escaped me ~
grievous gray 
now flows through my veins.

I shiver melancholia,
entombed...

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Categories: winter, depression, loneliness, longing, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter
thick blanket of snow
snuggling the flowerbeds 
with a winter wrap

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Categories: snow, winter,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Winter Wonderland
~  My favorite Thanksgiving memory was, quite simply, a walk at my grandparents house - I'll never forget how nature spoke to me that...

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Categories: appreciation, beauty, nature, winter,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Daughter of the North Wind Sings In Soprano
In riming realms 
of crystal contemplations -
frozen water-vapor meditations
and chilled flutes 
filled with zodiacal-light musings 
of ancient cosmic dust 
dancing in the arms of Sol..

windswept...

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Categories: passion, snow, winter, woman,
Form: Imagism



Premium Member Like Ice --- the Waltz
"Black Ice"

Sorrow flows from the first sunrise 
Eyes deeper than winter and rainfall
A painful combination never felt before 
At core death awaits
   -...

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Categories: winter, absence, allusion, color, dance,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member I'Ve Never Heard Snow
I've never heard the sound of snow
nor dawning's oboes crooning light,
yet witnessed angels' trumpets blow

and chimings of the flurries grow
as alabastrine wings take flight.
I've never...

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Categories: imagery, seasons, winter,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member My Winter's Wishes
In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed  
swaddled...

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Categories: winter, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Stone
The tale below was carved one night
upon the stone, by candlelight
...most won’t believe, but some just might
.........most won’t believe, but some just might



  ...

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Categories: winter, body, death, fantasy, kiss,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Haiku - Celestial Seduction
lights weave through snowflakes 
teasing and twirling about 
distant stars dancing

a brilliant display
wearing only hand-me-downs
the moon steals the show

~FJ Thomas
01/01/2020...

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Categories: winter, moon, night, snow, stars,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Forest
"What happens in the forest stays in the forest"

The trees are trimmed, 
The leaves on the ground 
Proposing passion, sweet mist
Naked with nothing to bare...

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Categories: winter, art, imagination, passion, seasons,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Dove In Your Eyes
How fast to wiles I fell my damask rose,
awake from slumber slept untold ages.
To gaze so deep in ocean eyes repose,
and print whispered prayer on...

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Categories: winter, imagery, lonely, love, perspective,
Form: Sonnet
A Concrete Snowman
THE BLACK
                       ...

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Categories: children, fun, snow, winter,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Scintillating Snowflakes
Wintry white wisps wondrously whirl
Soft sparkling snowflakes silently swirl
Coolly carpeting countrysides carefully
Dazzling diamonds dancing delightfully 


Submitted Contest forms A contest
Sponsored by Broken Wings
28th December 2014...

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Categories: winter,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Strawman and the Moon
A straw man stood fixed upon timber firm, 
gazing at Autumn's gilded, moonlit prize.
He, the king of Earth and the winding worm,
she, the pale darling...

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Categories: winter, autumn, imagery, inspirational, romance,
Form: Sonnet

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