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In the Bleak Midwinter

In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.

- Excerpt from A Christmas Carol by Christina Rossetti

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My mirror-face is pinched pallid as, colourlessly, I go over and over his last journey, and shudder like a

Categories: midwinter, grief, lost love,
Form: Haibun

Discombobulation In Midwinter

Listen, shhh!! Quiet, there it is 
          A songbird of spring, here in January
                I am not experiencing discombobulation

Categories: midwinter, confusion,
Form: Free verse

a midwinter sign

a midwinter sign

In the dead of night
Freezing and so quiet
It began to snow

Categories: midwinter, snow, winter,
Form: Haiku

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

In the Bleak Midwinter

after Christina Rosetti


Pour leaves into a gossamer bag, the kettle boils
in the bleak midwinter

the  orange-brown water  steams your mug and glasses
watching snow fall in the bleak midwinter

the cinnamon scent of your mothers touch
fills  your nose in the bleak midwinter

the teardrop shed at her absence joins your mug—
your mother passed this bleak midwinter

one

Categories: midwinter, loss,
Form: Ghazal

Midwinter Solstice Con

As the Earth’s Southern Pole is pushed farthest 
Away from sun, Winter Solstice arrives.
The sleepy sun's up-time is, the shortest
It's been all this year, shortchanging our lives.

Sol has its sway and makes the shortest day.
Daylight dwindles to a feeble short glow,
The sun, embarrassed, hides its face away.
Knowing it's failed to deliver its show.

Though darkness still

Categories: midwinter, earth, spring, summer, sun,
Form: Rhyme

Midwinter Night's Dream

Midst sullen storm and winter's grip,
Secure and warm I toddies sip.
By fireside glow my thoughts take wing.
While watching snow, I dream of spring.

Spring's swimming pools, azalea shrubs,
And garden tools and hiking clubs.
It's daffodils and meadows green, 
Beguiling hills and robins seen.

Spring's sandals, shorts, and twilight strolls
And outdoor sports and fishing holes.
It's parks and plows and

Categories: midwinter, april, beauty, dream, happiness,
Form: Quatrain

Midwinter Stillness

 In the patient stillness 
of a mid-winter’s night,
whispers from nature 
ride the drifting winds;
trees whisper secrets 
into the moonlight’s rays
and my spirit revels within the din,
of Gaia’s soul sounds.

Paw pads impress the diamond snow
that shimmering upon the air,
casts itself upon fir and oak
to rest upon both hill and bough.

Within her arteries,
soft down and fur
of

Categories: midwinter, earth, environment, nature, poems,
Form: Free verse

Midwinter Morn

In frosted field the shrouded horses stand

As statues still and frozen in quiescence 

No wish to raise their heads their faces bland

‘Til tepid sun should hint at incandescence


Verse taken from poem: Winter Morning Star
Submitted ~ December 2018
For contest: Arbitrium Divisa 2
24 June 2019

Categories: midwinter, winter,
Form: Rhyme

Midwinter Night Haiku Chain Verse

The snow, lit, sparkles
Each flake reflects the moon’s light
Revealing the night

Revealing the night
In its blanketed beauty
Enriching the heart

Enriching the heart
With a sense of adventure
Magic in the air

Magic in the air
Stirs my imagination
Excitement rising

Excitement rising
I feel the day approaching
What adventure comes

What adventure comes
Beneath the moon, I wonder
As it shines above

As it shines above
The moon turns nighttime

Categories: midwinter, appreciation, beauty, hope, nature,
Form: Haiku

In the Bleak Midwinter

The picture this carol conveys
real thoughts of frost biting hard
with snow fallen all around
just like a festive Christmas card

Paints a picture God’s great
far larger than earth so majestic
but humbled came to a stable
became man proving it all prophetic

This is God who cherubim’s worship
incessantly they do with no interruption
but this Lord willingly lowered Himself
not seeking man’s

Categories: midwinter, christmas, poetess, winter,
Form: Rhyme

Midwinter Night's Grasp

Caught in midwinter night’s grasp
My windfilled eyes brim with tears

But what are tears in the dark

When the snow

fills my heart

with the light

of dying

stars

Categories: midwinter, beauty, snow, stars, winter,
Form: Free verse

A Midwinter Pause

Trees fingering the bone-
white of winter are stripped bare
under the chilled blue sky.

Categories: midwinter, february, nature,
Form: Haiku

Midwinter

Oh, the grey of the heavens is greyer
Than the faces of the eternal dead,
As they crease and splinter decaying
With a texture of chapel roof lead.
The ice that sails in on the howling
Of winds that descend from the hills,
Burns through the cloth and the flesh
With a fury of ravening chills.
Oh, the black of the river is

Categories: midwinter, imagination, life, seasons,
Form: Verse