Winter Verse Poems

	is indigo the color of the monsoon
	in the fiery chill of winter that burns 
	melting your resolve
	in viole(n)t lightning
	surging like veins in a cloud

		bleeding the...

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Single Bed

I’m an admiral of 
my bed I sit on 
now! 
My rank of 
sitting and lying in 
the winter of 
1995 in 
Australia is...

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Being different struggling with allergies anxiety asthma runs in my family outbreaks can occur anytime anywhere like with my grandsons right during football practice hives...

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I remember the end of one November
When my urge 
To see the forest trees
Was unbreakable.
The leaves and the trees
Were still lively and red
But still and...

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I watched the snow
when winter fell,
admiring its patterns.
I wrote a line, a verse, then built
a poem.
And as the thawing earth
grew soft, I marked
a final word,
capped...

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charcoal gray horizon~
on the rusty cast iron bench 
my old self sits in pensive mood
beside the lake beneath December sky
the wayward wind as it teases...

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I woke up morning late,
oh, forsake I hope I’m not late. 
Black Friday! 
It’s that time of year. 
The official season for shoppers is here....

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As threads of pale winter moonlight shine upon rippling puddles,
broken reflections stare back,
setting the scene
in lonesome streets of solitude.
A bitter, harsh wind blows in from...

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Cold wins blow across
My weary bones
Feathered icicles 
Hanging high above home
Downey woodpecker
Eating a suet mix
Nature’s inadequacy 
For a protein fix
Cats watch behind 
Glass doors
Phantasms erupt
On...

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Is He crowded out of Christmas
By the commerce and the cry
Of a thousand advertisers
Urging everyone to buy?

Do the cards and coloured candles
And the clustered fairy-lights
Keep...

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Snow Angels, Snowpeople, and Evergreen Trees

When winter comes, children know how to have fun.
Laughing and catching snowflakes with their tongues
Or lying flat on their backs...

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You never said those words 
They never left your lips
Until now

I thought it, hoped it
Longingly
Then the truth escaped

Like the steamy breath
Of an icy day
In Winter

This...

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If you come back now
You will make my day
Dear Father
Because I am always
Worrying too much about me
My Father
I also worry about my health
Constantly
I want to...

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We like to think of kings
And crowding animals
And angels,
Of shepherds on a hill,
A star,
And lambs and gentleness.

But when it comes to Calvary
That’s much too sharp
And...

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These are modern English translations of poems by the German poets  Ingeborg Bachmann, H. Distler and Johann Georg Jacobi.



“Song”
by Johann Georg Jacobi
translation by Michael...

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