Solstice Winter Poems

Winter is when life put on hold.
  Winter is when not hot but cold.

Winter is snow falling on hills.
  Winter is reservoir refills.

Winter...

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Sliced pineapple chills in ice cubed glass;              
    ...

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A Winter Rose 2-1-24
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A Winter Rose

A pale rose blooms through winter’s breath,
Perfume born from a mystic place,
Shivering blossom shines through grey
Enfolded in the Spirit’s grace.

Touched...

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Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice

Rather than be a day late
and dollar short, I opted   
to post poem...

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Winter's Magic 1-8-24
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Winter’s Magic

Winter wizard casts cold spells with gusto
As torrents of snowstorms dance flamencos
Champagne confetti drifts in bits of snow
Clear technicolor snowflakes spin aglow
As...

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masked the winters wind
 torrid blows covering the...
naked skins of them
~
 humanity cold
 frozen speechless versions of 
winter solstice frost

2/3/24
Written words by James Edward Lee...

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("Winter's Edge", 2018, original encaustic)

Darkness

Darkness darkness be the pillow 
That pulls me in and holds me down
When all around the light had faded 
And nowhere...

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lamented winter's 
solstice midwinter shortest
 day longest night Sun 
~
directly over
 tropic of Capricorn marks
the beginning of
~
 lengthy days and short,
shorten nights solstice @ 
10:...

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When all begin their meditation
In the cold and chill of night
No one knows better than Nature
The regrowth of strength and might
Even the frigid Fall winds
Render...

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10:27 Post Meridiem 
Eastern Standard Time,
Thursday December 21
Location: 2 Highland Manor Drive
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
40.2562° N, 75.4638° W
Sunrise time: 7:31 am?(121°) 
Sunset time: 4:46 pm ?(239°)
Day length:...

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To the dark surrender the light, 
balance is perfect understanding;
Solstice painting’s ebony highlight 
a blanket of velvet and diamonds;
Festive eyes shine so bright 
enjoy the...

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Give yourself to slumber
under ink black clouds.
Moon below the horizon,
light for when it’s dark.
Lie in peaceful presence.
Silhouette of the trees
mythologies reverberate
of songs, put us to...

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Winter Sonata 11-29-23
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Winter Sonata

In grave allegro solo grey gathers,
Strings of winter fantasias
Brewing staccatos of frozen fall remnants,
Downbeats for the first movement
As shivering sleet wipes away...

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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...

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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...

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