Solstice Poems - Poems about Solstice

... In the unquiet chamber of a kitchen, where brittle leaves of thyme and sage sway in unison, to the hot hum of convection crooning softly from a stove of iron. The guests hang waiting, by ......Read More

...A sunny corner Dandelions, hair gone gray In a spiked farewell A howling wind An ogre trimming its beard A solstice shadow N......Read More

...Winter Sonata 11-29-23 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Winter Sonata In grave allegro solo grey gathers, Strings of winter fantasias Brewing staccatos of frozen fall remnants,......Read More

...The winter solstice time is no longer celebrated as it once was, with the understanding that this is a period of descent and rest, of going within our homes, within ourselves and taking in all that w......Read More

...Soon Winter Clouds Rounded mounds piled Ever higher and thicker Heavy, hang deep gray low — Threatening snow — If not tonight, then tomorrow — Over all here, upon this gurgling, burbling ......Read More

...It’s cold beneath the fallen leaves the worms slow wriggle falls to sleep the tartan now a yellowed sash consumed by winter’s icy creep the rustle in the leaves just wind as squirrels wrap the......Read More

...Still smarting from stupid scamming fraudsters... five months ago to the day Twas the cusp of tooth thousand twenty three summer solstice, when yours truly (a fool and his money went separate ......Read More

...YULETIDE ORIGINS On the first day of Yuletide The winter solstice ends Twelve days until A new solar year A feast to the sun Odin as the god Pagan origins Hauled heavy log Chance to repent......Read More

...Death of a Virgin I lost my virginity...to another woman, like myself. I am a Lesbian. I cracked my knuckles as the prosecutor began to beam away from me. I am a virgin whore. Those thoughts co......Read More

...Echoed in the embrace of autumn’s wind, Gentling whispers, sighing Breathing prayers who consume guarded Flames from yesterday’s shadows Considered by the trembling branches, Tugging against ......Read More

...“forgive us for what we do” Hallowmas masked as All Saint’s Day and a Solstice as Christmas for man and god’s sake there never were any snakes living in Ireland......Read More

...In snow-swept realms of yearly melting soft tips of grass rise peeking through frost-covered earth where temperatures rise and fall inconstant changes before the celestial heavens slowly mov......Read More

...He’s left me as Fall fell He’s taken Spring and Summer I'm stuck here in Winter Arctic wolves hunt my mind The dark vices come for me Here seasons circle every week Such is the igloo split ......Read More

...In the winter of my years, stands my barren tree Its leaves stripped by autumnal winds Against hope, it had one life left to give I blew a warm breath into a lone branch Hoping against hope, I st......Read More

...Sandcastles Time through the hourglass falls at a rate of grains, These subtle morsels of molecular stones that lay on the foundation of earthly stains. Minute signatures of the past pressurize......Read More