Winter's WishI reached a hand
Into the snow
The chilly ice
Once vibrant glow
It's Winter's wish
A painful spree
The absent warmth
Of no degree
Although I try
To stay alive
Your touch confirms
No love could thrive
Until the crystals
Of your heart
Can beat a path
Back to the start
I'll leave a message
By transient hand
No passer by
Shall understand
A heart-shaped sign
To melt...
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Categories:
snow, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Winter 2Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about winter, cold, rain, rains, frost, frosts, snow, snowflakes, wind, children, childhood, hail, hail stones, winter life.
Mushroom-gathering,
rushing to beat
cold evening rains.
—Matsuo Basho, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Ceremonious
hailstones
assail my hinoki hat.
—Matsuo Basho, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Caught hatless
in a winter shower?
So it goes.
—Matsuo Basho, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
How...
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Categories:
snow, childhood, children, life, rain,
Form: Haiku
Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about Winter 1Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about winter, snow, snowball, home, fire, children, fun, frost, hail, fish, ice fishing.
The year’s first snowfall;
such happiness to be
at home in my hut.
—Matsuo Basho, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Fire-making friend,
let me show you something grand:
a huge snowball!
—Matsuo Basho, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Written for Basho’s dear friend Sora, who...
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Categories:
snow, children, fire, fish, fun,
Form: Haiku
Mini PoppadomsMini Poppadoms
Intensive
can you hear the intensity
Mr freeze step aside
I have flies and they are my new friends
The crackle of the snow,whip and blow
The cackle of the crow,the man taking the dough
The crackle of the soap
Left until your laundries done
The night of a moon And a cow
The red rooster cocks
And the people come
Forgetting their...
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Categories:
drug, flying, humanity, snow,
Form: Free verse
A Poet Born in Snow
"Thoughts must not be stifled; they need tears, an outlet, a sigh, words."
...
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Categories:
snow, how i feel, i
Form: Other
ThawI have a heart too warm
for a body of snow.
My torso went out first—
The buttons before my chest
dropped into the soil.
One by one, they stripped me tenderly.
—I feel exposed.
My limbs were the next to leave—
Technically I only had
arms that once traced words in frost.
The damp branches—they landed right beside me.
I couldn’t reach them, of...
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Categories:
art, fate, memory, snow,
Form: Free verse
Shining Snow
G-lacier
A-lways
Y-ields
Z-enith's
E-legant
L-ight
C-asting
A-ll
L-uminescent
A-ura,
G-limmering
O-n
S-now
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Monocrostic (Birthday of Gayzel Calagos)...
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Categories:
snow, birthday,
Form: Other
Cold Deathwinter came early
it was freezing in the mountains
no shelter meant death
...
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Categories:
death, nature, snow, storm,
Form: Senryu
hiku - shadows of snowflakes
Categories:
snow, beautiful, imagery, moon, poetry,
Form: Haiku
Nameless BloodBlood drips on the ground beneath my feet
But not from my eyes you gouged out
Or from the tongue you cut off
Nor my eyes you left to listen
And not my insides where it crawls.
Unkown makes me afraid
More than my blood pooling on the snow
I knew it always bleeds
But I don't know where the...
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Categories:
snow, absence, abuse, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
In stars aboveIn the fireflies in the sky above,
Gases collide with grace—no gaslighting~
They weave star-carpets that shimmer and wink,
God’s lanterns flaring to soften our darkness.
A fusion of hydrogen and helium nuclei~
Forms a premium spirit that sparkles,
Like a naked flame through a bright hole in the dark,
Yet forming galaxies remains their thrill.
With self-gravity, bound as twinkling gems,
Blind to...
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Categories:
fire, rainbow, snow, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Fire in the snowYou were there when I needed you the most,
just for you to disappear into the night like a vengeful ghost.
The texts you sent broke my heart,
cause deep down I never wanted us to part.
My biggest Fear,
was for you to disappear,
and for you to pass from sight like fire in the snow.
I...
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Categories:
snow, 8th grade, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Salad Days
I don't know
where iceberg lettuce
winter squash
or snow peas grow
but it seems to me
it's not down there
in Antarctica
where and when it's freezing below
which only goes to show
pointing out if not advising
there's bait and switch in the pitch
and no truth to their advertising
...
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Categories:
snow, food, fun, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Issa Translations IIThese are English translations of Issa haiku about the seasons: spring, summer, autumn, winter.
Autumn wind ...
She always wanted to pluck
the reddest roses
?Kobayashi Issa translation by Michael R. Burch
Issa wrote the haiku above after the death of his daughter Sato with the note: “Sato, girl, 35th day, at the grave.”
In this world where I was born
every...
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Categories:
snow, autumn, rose, spring, stars,
Form: Haiku
SnowThe untimed snow rushed insulted against the glassed shoulders on the poster,
and they were made of paper, they were bare…
It cried, scalded, on the painted, colorful faces,
and they were made of paper, they were bare…
Its outraged tears transformed into tears of joy,
and through them they were still smiling,
not caring for the bitter cold,
in defiance of...
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Categories:
snow, allegory, allusion,
Form: Blank verse
Specific Types of Snow Poems
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