Snow Poems | Examples of Snow Poetry

Does your Summer miss the snow

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

snowfall

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

Evergreen

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

snow dusted

snow d
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The Answer's A lemming

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

The Road Ahead

     A gaslit street
       of cobblestone

     The horse-drawn carriage
       faintly moans

     A snowstorm quickens
       the traveler groans

     The road ahead
 

snow hiku

winter’s snow
is pillow-soft eiderdown . . . . 
fields pristinely gleam

Footsteps of a Sparrow

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

Winter's Wish

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

Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Winter 2

Matsuo 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

Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about Winter 1

Matsuo 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

Mini Poppadoms

Mini 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

A Poet Born in Snow

 

"Thoughts must not be stifled; they need tears, an outlet, a sigh, words."

                                         

Thaw

I 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

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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