Ice Snow Poems

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...

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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...

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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...

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These 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...

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Rare and stark is the isolated island
   In its heart - its bipolar mood
And it stokes within the imagination
   A fire...

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Trees of powder,
Delicate and firm.
They conceal my feathers of frost.
I perch myself by all that glitters
All that warms, and all that flickers.
I perch myself by...

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In the frostbitten belly of Russia’s spine,
Where the stars are mute and the sun won’t shine,
A man with chains and a shattered past,
Counts the heartbeats...

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Blanket Of Snow 
Blanket of snow 
Your so beautiful 
Bundled up in the cold 
The sun melts the stars 
Your shyness is revealed 
Break the...

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While hearths glow warm with ember’s light,  
I dance beneath the pale moon’s gleam,  
Where frosted breath curls in the night,  
And...

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Mayst tell them, though they leave a sacred land,
Where every inch with rich conception spanned,
With diligence, in Hades mayst they find
A path that to Elysian...

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Cold is the tittering of befitted feet
Cold is the meagre meanders of falling fractals 
Cold is the twinge of bitter blues upon reeling retreats
Cold is...

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the sky was cold and grey
when
yesterday
you told me where the Secret Penguin lay
in bygone years
they say he was a sight 
the avian conundrum
in black and...

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An Ice Fishing House, Abandoned, in Need of Repair

That same shed waits
by the trees.
Waits on its skids
for the lake to freeze,
and the for the creaking...

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Plantar Ice

The snow, deliciously stabbing.
This treat for bare feet, astounding.
Tap-tap, my attention grabbing.
Lost mind, all reason confounding.

This treat for bare feet, astounding,
as by leaps, a...

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