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Best Wintertime Poems

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Premium Member Wintertime
Set to the tune of 'Edelweiss'  from The Sound of Music

Wintertime, wintertime
Evergreens don festive wardrobes

Ivory
Christmas Eves
Swirl in peppermint snowglobes

Magical mirrors of lakes to skate
Taste...

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Categories: wintertime, holiday, nature, snow, song,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member A Song For Autumn
Intoxicate me, Autumn, I implore
you! Fall upon me amber as in times
your splendor greeted me outside my door,
enthralling me, inspiring me with rhymes.

Annoint me, Autumn,...

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Categories: wintertime, autumn,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Dead of Winter
Here under the cold winter sun,
Beneath the old, lifeless tree,
My winter mourning has begun,
When no one comes to visit me.

Left out here on the edge...

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Categories: wintertime, dark, death, lonely, winter,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Signs of Spring For Me
I’m looking forward as I always do
to springtime -when the robin’s trills I hear
which come from trees which years ago we grew.
They bloom in early...

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Categories: wintertime, spring,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Odyssey

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so...

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Categories: wintertime, appreciation, seasons, winter,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member An Ancient Oak
An oak tree stood beside a narrow stream
All bent and twisted like an agéd man
So gently flowed the stream through ancient roots
While laughing with the...

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Categories: wintertime, nature, seasons, tree, water,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Ice Breaker
The limbs of the tree are now cold and barren
as they reach up into the sky above
searching for what was lost,
as the playful, fallen leaves...

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Categories: wintertime, change, heart, love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Whispering Winds of Springtime
Listen to the whispering's of the unhushed winds gently echoing,
Ever so softly swaying, as through a tender exhaled breath of warmth,
Delicately reawakening mother earth from...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wintertime, beauty, fantasy, flower, future,
Form: Free verse
Lost In the Season
Breathing the day as the sun wanders by
Claiming a slice of its glow
Walking a path neath this wintertime sky
Chilly the breezes a' flow

Evergreen melodies bring...

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Categories: wintertime, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Awaiting Loveliness - Acrostic
Awaiting Loveliness - Acrostic


L  Longing for the warmth of springtime days
O  over frigid gloom of wintertime,
V  varied memories come sweetly forth.
E ...

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Categories: wintertime, birth, spring,
Form: Acrostic
Blessings
Reaching a new year with a gleeful mood
Under a lucky star and a bright moon.
Guardian angels showing path of grace
Flowing and enlightening is my Faith.
An...

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Categories: wintertime, beauty, blessing, december, faith,
Form: Couplet
The Green Whisper
Ice has melted and wintertime is gone
Green is the evening and greener the dawn

It is the festival of green sounds my dear
It is now spring...

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Categories: wintertime, allusion, bird, cool, green,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Each Year
They are buried in the cities oldest cemetery,
     it is a large cemetery stretching for many blocks;
and one of the most...

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Categories: wintertime, sad,
Form: Verse
The Snow Queen
The Snow Queen

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The Snow Queen waved her magic wand,
the skies they grew so dark
Clouds moved in without a sound
as shadows did embark

Two happy lovers walked...

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Categories: wintertime, good night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Middle
In youth, vacations lent my Summers wings
and Christmas gilded wintertime in gold.
I've aged (a bit) and love my Falls and Springs
for landing in between too...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wintertime, age,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs