Winter Sedoka Poems

Will you leave me now?
Your spring dovetails my winter
Our seasons are getting short

Spring cannot exist
without her winter's embrace
We'll always come full circle....

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City hub on wings
apogee of ultra bright
fire within urban comet
tangerine signpost
to future halcyon spot
amidst buoyant step onrush

Bouncy castle perk
spurs avid market stall pitch
bargain in a...

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from warm lungs come white
clouds, humble gift of myself
simply heaven bound--beauty 
of cold wintry days
winter shows what I would not
otherwise ever witness
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Winter’s silent soul
Kisses away the darkness
With trembling flakes, snow feathers
Cardinals whisper
Blessing the breathless prayers
From hearts who feel love’s inklings

Soundless as snowdrifts
On the edge of a...

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A blast of winter
         Another storm brings beauty
    Now brightness, sunshine and snow
 ...

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London collapses
trains, planes, and automobiles
trapped and flash-frozen emplace 

Christmas lights still bright
If one ventured through the night
ghost carolers in the mews...

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Huddled together 
Around fire place we draw nigh
To combat coldness attacks...
Singing joyous hymns
Grateful to God* for love’s warmth
Exempting us from Winter**.

*1Thessalonians 5:18 In every thing...

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Husband says, “Look! Snow!”
I see it splash on windshield -
Two flakes peak and then they split.

Warm hearts in the car
So excited; in the cold
Scintillating snow

1/13/2023
Bite...

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Another branch falls
from the once glorious tree.
Can it be the ice has won?

Beneath frigid earth
the last frostbitten root curls.
Another winter trophy.

01/13/2023...

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January dawn
Snowfall's promised purity 
Gleams under a silver sun

Robin's flash of red 
Birdsong delicately fills
The quiet white interlude 

1/13/23

Winter Sedoka contest 
Sponsor: Charles Messina

Syllable count...

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I watched the snow fall
As it grasped the tree branches
It left a wonderland here

I watched the rain fall
As it washed tree branches bare
The slush on...

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the air acquires
the crisp, cool, dry sensation
and my lungs rejoice at breath
-
the flakes falls lightly
then get packed down underfoot
and my eyes rejoice at snow...

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Gelid winter winds
are creating drifts of snow
The perfect time for sledding

Trying to keep warm
I bundled up in woolens
And... played for hours in the cold



January 13,...

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Christmas comes and goes.
Winter weather waves its wand,
a Savior warms the weary.

Seque to Easter.
"Christ is risen," welcome words  
weighing forth on winds of time.


January...

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In sunless dark dusk
winter blizzard blows across
the road I walk chilled back home.

Cupful hot coffee
my wife gives me at fireplace,
we’re on cloud nine together.

_________________

January 13,...

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