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Winter Poems | Examples of Winter Poetry

Loneliness
Looking over my northern shoulder at the changing shades of day a weak winter sun turning twilight grey teardrops of rain on the window the gentle sigh of the wind storm clouds in the evening sky bring it all back again poring over unwritten letters in the solitude of night a dim lit candle shining star white light telephone silent unanswered candlelight quietly dimmed unwritten letters to...

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Categories: winter, night, rain, romantic, romantic
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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...

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Categories: winter,
Form: Rhyme



Summer's End
Burning like fever in the spring our love affair was on the wing then drifted away on the summer wind now I'm thinking of you how good it used to be holding on to precious memories and every teardrop has a tale to tell every teardrop fills a wishing well changing like autumn leaves that fall your love it comes and goes then melts away...

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Categories: winter, autumn, lost love, romantic
Form: Rhyme
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...

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Categories: winter, childhood, children, life, rain,
Form: Haiku
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...

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Categories: winter, children, fire, fish, fun,
Form: Haiku



Winter Withers
Winter withers …… its way into the woods and waits….and wonders….and watches until…. No-one is looking. Suddenly, an ally boorishly introduces itself, an iced-sliced wind to quiver-shiver the woods’ most tender saplings; to shudder the aged evergreens with sharpened, encrusted crystals sandpapering the toughest, roughest bark. Weather warning complete, Winter then crunches forward, cold shouldering its way through the night to finally rest against a solitary,...

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Categories: depression, nature, winter,
Form: Free verse
Listening To Silence
Looking out the window I didn't see a sound Nothing out there moving The world on solid ground No birds were out there singing No rustling of the leaves Is the river flowing But silent as a breeze? Was I really seeing The absence of all sound? Or was I only hearing The silence all around?...

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Categories: december, peace, weather, winter,
Form: Rhyme
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...

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Categories: winter, art, fate, memory, snow,
Form: Free verse
7 B's Of Summer
Spring is sprawling out there somewhere in a Bikini on a Beach drinking Beer toes in the sand glass in hand while snowflakes are falling and winter's still here then when good old sunny summer comes (and swallows do too) oh to go Barefoot in a Boat on the sea Barbecue in the garden play Ball in the park fun in the sun 'til evening twilight lowers the night a curtain...

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Categories: winter, boat, humorous, sea, spring,
Form: Rhyme
A Christmas Wish
May your annual commemoration of the winter solstice with one of the Earth's poles at its maximum tilt from the sun be abundant with innumerable manifestations of felicity friends good food and fun and may the next full circuit of the ecliptic engender a propensity toward bestowing plenteousness too and may unparalleled prosperity be forthcoming and settle like snowflakes gently upon you ...

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Categories: winter, christmas, fun, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cold Death
winter came early it was freezing in the mountains no shelter meant death ...

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Categories: winter, death, nature, snow, storm,
Form: Senryu
Winter Blues
There's a hint of winter in the evening air as the autumn days dwindle down to a golden few but I'm looking forward to spring and all it will bring when the whole wide world is reborn anew and then with summer just around the corner to see me through I'm thinking of early mornings with you to meet the sun and how a daydream or two for now will...

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Categories: fun, summer, weather, winter,
Form: Rhyme
the winter blues
the winter blues has a grip on me, all so tight Its icy tentacles wrap around me and squeezes freezing my fingers and toes with its nasty frostbite staving off the cold is a battle, an endless fight it brings forth an assortment of nasty...

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Categories: winter,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Lakeside Chill on Winter Morn
The dank cold chill stills the dawn to forlorn quietude, as the day hopes in vain for summer rays to lift eyelids awake to a warm break of day. Shorebirds huddle out of the shadows to catch the glimmer of weak light rays that trickle onto the sand flats. Syrupy waves ripple the lake's surface trying their best to make the best of the frigid situation, with the scene blanketed...

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Categories: winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Seasonal Affair
A frigid spell of arctic air adorns the tranquil western scene; a stunning glimpse of fall’s affair with spring’s vivacious flower queen. When autumn’s cooling wind combines with April's warming playful breeze, a whirling tempest paints designs on grounds of winter’s icy freeze. On sculptured hills of milky snows October's tepid finger strolls, and May's...

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Categories: winter, autumn, beauty, change, nature,
Form: Rhyme

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