Winter Introspection Poems

Nature's flower runs through my fears,
Her old seasons there interceding
On the silver gray blunt of the shears,
Where the stem—sharpened by night—is keeping
For the day's rain...

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When I was
       just four years old
           our house
...

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In the dreaming domain 
of dainty dawn 
gentle zephyr flows,
ripples the radiant facade 
of the placid pond,
where
on the lilting lap 
of a silken lotus leaf,...

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the whip-poor-will calls only briefly
I know that he is back and alive
he sounds so weak and sickly
I wonder if he will survive

I long to hear...

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It's partial to Winter's bark gloom and weed bite—
Then comes Spring with his light massaging through stone,
In cold spots along her dark towering spine—
That lovers...

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Winter with thoughtful wings slips upon
When her voice is too frail to hold life—
Everywhere green, this light she's from;
In gentleness back the forest bites,
As feathery...

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should I fear my autumn
when Juniper wilts with me
and the sagging stars above
edge closer to the sea

should I fear my autumn
with winter still to show
my...

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Confusion hangs in the air like lanterns not yet lit
I look around in a daze, as if I have gone astray 
memories somber, like watercolors...

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As the door's brass knob aches—
Where winter season holders twist;
A new bloom in her child's frame—
Outside in my heart throb away.

Where winter season holders twist,
By...

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Birds scrubbing the winter's time,
Traded in the cold for so long,
As the first rhythm of spring makes the rain—
They sing in as they drop ostracizing...

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woodland willows, icy white
winter weather waves its wand
wand'ring with the winds of time
wassail warms my weary walk.
weighted down with wrath and woe
wondering of worlds beyond...
wisdom...

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To figure you out holistically, 
I need to wade the waters cautiously
A snap of a band on my wrist 
Every time I think of this...

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winter’s calling wind
blown messages least most falls
torn tween autumn fall

winter’s lull at last
approximate two half months 
left to receive cold

and influx of snow
winter’s alarming burst...

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Meandering
through
the
winter pine forest
at dawn
is
the
soul
of
the
icy blue river...

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a
snowflake
while
falling
twirling  
spinning around
thus
parachuting
unto
the
sacred 
ground
thus
uplifting 
the 
call of winter
found
unto
the 
sacred ground
from
the 
icy clouds
...

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