My first steps, a shock,
bare feet on the cold white ground.
Soft powder covers
the world, a blanket of quiet.
My breath, a small cloud,
hovers in the frosty air.
I hear my sister's gasp,
my brother's shout of joy.
The cold stings my soles,
a thousand small needles.
I feel the small sting
and I want to run back,
back to the warm place.
But my mother smiles,
her hand warm in the cold air,
and my father laughs,
his voice a low rumble.
I keep on walking,
brave in the strange new cold.
My toes turn a pale blue,
a small person in a great world.
And the snow, a white whisper,
surrounds us all in silence,
a memory, a feeling, a dream.
I will never forget this
my first walk in the snow,
a white world I found
with my family, with love,
and my little blue toes.
Categories:
snow, adventure, blue, child, memory,
Form: Choka
snow fallling hot tea a warm fire
a christmas song with words that inspire
Categories:
christmas, family, jesus, snow,
Form: Crystalline
Flakes escape the heavens,
intrude upon the silent night.
The world wakes to painted canvas.
Tires spin, no traction,
shovels groan 'neath a burden to
free weary souls from it’s grasp.
Categories:
memory, snow, winter,
Form: Free verse
Snow.
The rifts and ledges.
Flakes just like to flake.
And eventually stay.
Snow covers cars a bit.
Then we uncover them.
We like to pretend that the snow is not melting down our spine, and destroying us.
Shaking.
Then we shake it off.
Gloved hands, taking them off.
If a stranger walked by, he wouldn’t help at all.
Snow covers my eyelashes a bit too.
Snow.
Towers over us in our sleep.
When it’s cold and our car won’t start this morning.
So it shuts us down.
Snow.
The snow plow did come through.
Eventually.
Then it came through the same street once more and it was crazy.
Then the snow stopped.
Gloved hands, throwing the gloves to the ground.
Breaking down because.
Snow.
Snow on a Sunday morning.
Doesn’t feel as bad, crazy, or unbearable.
I’m shaking, yet I’m on my cozy chair.
Snow towers in our sleep.
If it snows overnight?
I might have a problem.
Categories:
snow, angst, depression,
Form: Free verse
Snow prevails in the realms of Otherworlds,
And moonlit mortals imagine light flight.
Bright pink faery orbs float and dance upward,
Spirals in song producing bright delights.
At times, thought considers the other side.
Dreaming in the moment bestows lessons.
A flame amplifies the insightful mind,
And we learn to breathe in our own heavens.
The depth of the forest brings us fresh breath
While we try to fly the stellar Cosmos,
Doing all that we can to keep our health
While sparkling moonlight plays its song and glows.
Venerable Oaks and Hazels reach high,
Grounded on Earth, yet, bound to Raven's eye!
Categories:
snow, angst, appreciation, death, deep,
Form: Sonnet
striking f l a k e s of
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p i e r c e through bitter cold darkness ~
stunningly
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Categories:
snow, beautiful, dark, gothic, imagery,
Form: Haiku
Foundation.
Does your Summer miss the snow?
A poem reflecting the persistent, almost seemingly never-ending, haunting nature of loss.
Exploring how bereavement can follow you—turning every place into a somewhere filled with old memories of someone special, whose absence still lingers.
Like Irish Sea Moss
The imagery of Summer missing snow represents grief in an eternal, kaleidoscope.
Relaying the sentiment that heartbreak can be an up and down internal season all oñ its own, discounting external context.
As life continues to spin as sadness slowly creeps in.
Title.
Bereavement.
(A lone voice whispers)
Stranded forever
Everywhere I seem to go
I now know heartbreak
Like Summer misses the snow
(C)
John Duffy
Categories:
snow, grief,
Form: Rhyme
snow softly falls white
shimmering dust that coats all
glints in early moon
altering our perception
of our familiar landscapes
young tree limbs soon bend
under the weight they carry
as midnight passes
slow softening the edges
of disappearing landscapes
blanket now complete
undulating white vista
as the dawn reveals
memories we need to see
our now forgotten landscapes
Categories:
memory, snow,
Form: Tanka
jade firs stood on grass-grown scene
her slope swathed in verdant sheen
white frost came, a friend so dear
the woods remain, ever green
Categories:
nature, snow, strength, tree,
Form: Jueju
snow d
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hilltops
d a z z l i n g wintertime display ~
moonlit wander/
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Categories:
snow, imagery, mountains, night, poetry,
Form: Haiku
There are those who think the masses
are like a legion of lemmings
doing a death march into the sea
(actually a river)
but suicidal lemmings are a myth
created by none other than Walt Disney
in Alberta, Canada where
(no lemmings live)
the 1958 film 'White Wilderness' was made
and the sordid scandalous scene
by the filmmakers was staged
spinning turntables were constructed
all covered in snow
to jostle and send them tumbling
then off a cliff the poor lemmings
the crew proceeded to throw
Categories:
abuse, animal, death, snow,
Form: Rhyme
A gaslit street
of cobblestone
The horse-drawn carriage
faintly moans
A snowstorm quickens
the traveler groans
The road ahead
no longer shown
His way home
no longer known
The road ahead
no longer shown
A white tombstone
whistles ~ all alone
Categories:
snow, fear, home, journey, nostalgia,
Form: Couplet
winter’s snow
is pillow-soft eiderdown . . . .
fields pristinely gleam
Categories:
snow,
Form: Haiku
I watch
colors distort into
dots tiptoeing on the white wall
Black target expands—engulfs—
flitting between rear and front sight
Blood drums in my ears—
tides I ride with breath held
shallow. It hums, the shadow—
taunts with broken birdsongs
It knows.
All it takes is
a skipped heartbeat
for a sniper to fall
Countdown.
Lens focusing into center
breaths narrow into blade, inhale—
The world refined to
a single shot resting in the barrel—
Exhale.
A light tap on the trigger—
a sparrow’s footprint on fresh snow—
silent, sudden,
the sound catches up after
the recoil sends a shock to spinal cords
That’s when chirps falter into echo
Categories:
analogy, bird, music, snow,
Form: Free verse
I 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 away
Perhaps to write
Another day..
Categories:
snow, winter,
Form: Rhyme
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