Snow Poems | Examples of Snow Poetry

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 ...

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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...

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A gaslit street of cobblestone The horse-drawn carriage faintly moans A snowstorm quickens the traveler groans The road ahead ...

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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

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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...

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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 ©bfa060425 Monocrostic (Birthday of Gayzel Calagos)...

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winter came early it was freezing in the mountains no shelter meant death ...

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shadows of s n o w f l a k e s d i s s o l ...

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Blood 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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