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Winter Poems | Examples of Winter Poetry

Winter Poems - Examples of all types of winter poetry to share and read. This list of winter poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of winter poetry. This list of works about winter is an excellent resource for examples on how to write winter poems.
Premium Member The Season of Truth
A cold wind. Whatever was here has fled inside or has curled up in a corner somewhere out of sight and gone to sleep. Footpaths are tiled in the wet, skeletal remains of leaves and tree trunks have begun...Read the rest...
Categories: seasons, self, truth, winter,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Haiku 21
harsh winter is near sailing boats vanish in port - umbrellas unfurled. ...Read the rest...
Categories: winter,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Winter Magic
Cold, Freezing, Choclate, Winter is magical, yes, Icicles and frost....Read the rest...
Categories: winter,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Earth
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. Rachel Carson Earth shows off it's evergreen trees, a home to the yellow bumble bees. In the winter...Read the rest...
Categories: winter, beauty, green, river, tree,
Form: Rhyme
On The Verge
On The Verge Beady eye, horse riding dictator Replacing peace with violence Using conventional weapons against A sovereign, democratic nation His wanderlust and ideologic hatred Remain unabated Now beginning to see non-edible mushrooms Rising in the sky On the verge of world war Inevitable...Read the rest...
Categories: death, fire, war, winter,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Fall from Grace
From grace fall A ...Read the rest...
Categories: winter, autumn, green, history, weather,
Form: Couplet
The Elegy
Collaboration of poems I have looked away books to read then I realized I can't utter a word All of them told I can't read Then I chose to write I smiled and smiled and I wrote Come again to me...Read the rest...
Categories: winter, anxiety, war, water, western,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member winter is blue and sparkly
winter is not white she is blue and sparkly, a reflection of gorgeousness with dazzling crystals all over her frozen carpet she is pristine, virginal, fresh, a delight every year...Read the rest...
Categories: winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sanctuary in the Storm
The flame dances in the candle's final hours, In the heart of a snow-laden cabin, Winter's breath whispers through the shingles, The wind sings a song of the cold night. We gather by the dwindling light, Each flicker a spark...Read the rest...
Categories: winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member snowman takes a loose ride
Snowman takes a truly loose ride on a Canadian moose Christmas tree on his ankles, moose looks like a goose. We saw them in the forest with snow falling all around. Some landed on my head, but there...Read the rest...
Categories: winter,
Form: Couplet
A Poet For All Seasons
I am not the perfect poet, you and I both know it, though surely we could share, our time with rhyme and reason, springtime, snowdrop, couplets, summer days of sunshine sonnets, autumnal skies of falling paper leaves, winters filled with warming...Read the rest...
Categories: winter, autumn, poetry, romance, seasons,
Form: Alliteration
Insurgents
The day has just dawn and the infidels are all over the lawn, they are setting up tents in the field and continue to ignore the written deal, the widows and single women are at...Read the rest...
Categories: winter, absence, abuse, character, earth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member ICICLES
Celsius is minus three icicles now we see growing on winter tree amid frosty display aloft shrouded by grey leaden clouds set to...Read the rest...
Categories: color, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Winter Is Undone
See Winter dripping off the trees. It, finally, is past. And here we are, down on our knees. Thank God it didn’t last! The morning sun creeps o’er the hill. There’s not a cloud in sight. Of snow, we’ve had more...Read the rest...
Categories: hope, seasons, spring, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member ice age in the midwest
snow ice frost icicle January teeth are chattering February also March has been called off this year a new ice age in the Midwest we will not be planting until June...Read the rest...
Categories: winter,
Form: Nonet

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Book: Shattered Sighs