Winter Poems
#winter
Winter poems about the coldest season of the year, December to February in the northern hemisphere and June to August in the southern hemisphere. Winter brings short dark days and stillness, as nature sleeps. Here you'll find poems about the beauty of the winter months, and also poems about dealing with cold and challenging weather.
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Anthony R
Anthony R
Poem Published
19th Oct 2021 3:16pm
19th Oct 2021 3:16pm
The Grass Grows White
You can see your breath in the air
The morning is cold
It is only 50 degrees
An interesting temperature
Nothing has frozen yet
But it might as well all have;
I extend my eye and hand to the sky and land
They have fallen asleep
Even the sun
It hangs in the air
Dozing
The light is bright but it has no intent
Like a lamp left on by accident.
I have to put my hands in my pockets now, and I wish I brought a hat;
I use the hot water when doing the dishes now,
We had French onion soup yesterday for dinner, ...
The morning is cold
It is only 50 degrees
An interesting temperature
Nothing has frozen yet
But it might as well all have;
I extend my eye and hand to the sky and land
They have fallen asleep
Even the sun
It hangs in the air
Dozing
The light is bright but it has no intent
Like a lamp left on by accident.
I have to put my hands in my pockets now, and I wish I brought a hat;
I use the hot water when doing the dishes now,
We had French onion soup yesterday for dinner, ...
#sun
#winter
#fall
18 reads
1 Comment
TimWombles
Poem Published
18th Oct 2021 1:20am
18th Oct 2021 1:20am
Autumn's Demise
Is it all just a coincidence
That autumn's leaves are the color of the sun?
Don't you find it strange?
Or am I the only one?
All those reds, oranges, and yellows
That brighten up the day
Eventually become a dingy brown
And quietly fade away
And all that you see
Will finally be erased
By a sheet of snowfall
Like whiteout on a page
That autumn's leaves are the color of the sun?
Don't you find it strange?
Or am I the only one?
All those reds, oranges, and yellows
That brighten up the day
Eventually become a dingy brown
And quietly fade away
And all that you see
Will finally be erased
By a sheet of snowfall
Like whiteout on a page
#winter
#fall
#nature
31 reads
12 Comments
Scarlett_Midwinter
Poem Published
13th Oct 2021 9:24pm
13th Oct 2021 9:24pm
Seasonal Dreamings
Spring comes dressed in "Pseudo Silk Kimono"
Wearing florals and lilac, her very best
Simultaneously frost-bit and sun-kissed
She wants to make the "best dressed" list
Open chrysalis heart spilling out
April Wine of pink and purple butterflies
Beckoning music of wood sprites
Where yellow water lilies nestle like pendants
In the hollow of the fairy pond's neck
Summer: emollient, fragrant, even-keeled
Reaping what she sows in "Strawberry Fields"
Birthing bodacious gifts of pea green dells
Silver bells, cockle shells
And...
Wearing florals and lilac, her very best
Simultaneously frost-bit and sun-kissed
She wants to make the "best dressed" list
Open chrysalis heart spilling out
April Wine of pink and purple butterflies
Beckoning music of wood sprites
Where yellow water lilies nestle like pendants
In the hollow of the fairy pond's neck
Summer: emollient, fragrant, even-keeled
Reaping what she sows in "Strawberry Fields"
Birthing bodacious gifts of pea green dells
Silver bells, cockle shells
And...
#beauty
#summer
#winter
#fall
#spring
29 reads
1 Comment
BeginningPoet
Poem Published
8th Oct 2021 11:06pm
8th Oct 2021 11:06pm
a new winter's day
i watched from frosted windows
at the early winter dawn
as the sun began to appear,
showing like a flowering rose
lifting itself toward the heavens,
blooming over creation,
the colors of the horizon
laid out like a scarf had been
placed on the shoulders
of the departing night,
the day advanced
as shadowed figures emerge
from fading darkness
to take shape,
the last remaining ice
shone like dying prisms,
while the new morning
birthed a new winter's day.
at the early winter dawn
as the sun began to appear,
showing like a flowering rose
lifting itself toward the heavens,
blooming over creation,
the colors of the horizon
laid out like a scarf had been
placed on the shoulders
of the departing night,
the day advanced
as shadowed figures emerge
from fading darkness
to take shape,
the last remaining ice
shone like dying prisms,
while the new morning
birthed a new winter's day.
#sky
#winter
#morning
#nature
#snow
30 reads
10 Comments
bcpoet
Lawrence
Lawrence
Poem Published
8th Oct 2021 8:50pm
8th Oct 2021 8:50pm
Jasmine
jasmine flowers in the spring
then flowers again as we begin
autumn's shrinking daytime's glow
threatening a winter's snow
first on mountains way up high
then creeping down from looming sky
to this place down by the sea
where heather blooms constantly
through the darkness and the light
often grey clouds , still a sight
of flowers blooming in the rain
falling from the sky again
BC westcoast palm trees sway
when winter's winds come here to play
a teasing brush of frosty nights
snowdrops dress in...
then flowers again as we begin
autumn's shrinking daytime's glow
threatening a winter's snow
first on mountains way up high
then creeping down from looming sky
to this place down by the sea
where heather blooms constantly
through the darkness and the light
often grey clouds , still a sight
of flowers blooming in the rain
falling from the sky again
BC westcoast palm trees sway
when winter's winds come here to play
a teasing brush of frosty nights
snowdrops dress in...
#flowers
#winter
#nature
42 reads
3 Comments
MartenHoyle
Poem Published
4th Oct 2021 3:49pm
4th Oct 2021 3:49pm
(...)
(…)
In towering oceans of the autumn skies
The hues of twilight in your eyes—
Below these stars that kiss the trees,
Where will you sleep—among the leaves?
I am not yet known to be born,
Save that I have grown old…
And my heart was alive when I saw you
Dream upon a pearl—so like the dew:
Little tears that shine in a sun of glass
In the memory of frost upon the grass.
I cannot see, I cannot dream
Only in the hues of the snow…
There was mist among the stars,
And the ghosts all were ours,
On...
In towering oceans of the autumn skies
The hues of twilight in your eyes—
Below these stars that kiss the trees,
Where will you sleep—among the leaves?
I am not yet known to be born,
Save that I have grown old…
And my heart was alive when I saw you
Dream upon a pearl—so like the dew:
Little tears that shine in a sun of glass
In the memory of frost upon the grass.
I cannot see, I cannot dream
Only in the hues of the snow…
There was mist among the stars,
And the ghosts all were ours,
On...
#love
#winter
#fall
31 reads
2 Comments
BeginningPoet
Poem Published
4th Oct 2021 11:36am
4th Oct 2021 11:36am
to a close
the seeping sun
draping the walls
momentarily
retracing their steps,
the air like lace,
tender looks
changes come
to eyes
conceived,
arranged
green leaf,
trading for gold,
the whisper
of parting blooms,
finding
a second fitting,
pastel blues
stranded,
turn down
your views,
the wind
a little bolder,
a little colder,
go to sleep
now,
under gray wraps,
bringing
your season
to a close. ...
draping the walls
momentarily
retracing their steps,
the air like lace,
tender looks
changes come
to eyes
conceived,
arranged
green leaf,
trading for gold,
the whisper
of parting blooms,
finding
a second fitting,
pastel blues
stranded,
turn down
your views,
the wind
a little bolder,
a little colder,
go to sleep
now,
under gray wraps,
bringing
your season
to a close. ...
#trees
#flowers
#sky
#summer
#winter
39 reads
14 Comments
Scarlett_Midwinter
Poem Published
2nd Oct 2021 5:11am
2nd Oct 2021 5:11am
The Skier
Snow falls gently
In icy fractals and curlicues
Chinese symbols of frozen water
Transluscent hieroglyphics
Floating down from above
In soft and blinding sprinklings
A white backdrop for a lone figure
A skier on a mountain
Gliding along like a single dot
In winter's Pointilism
While the world is still
Lit only by floodlights
With their melancholic glow
And a few distant stars
Freckles on the night sky's
Chilly ebony face
...
In icy fractals and curlicues
Chinese symbols of frozen water
Transluscent hieroglyphics
Floating down from above
In soft and blinding sprinklings
A white backdrop for a lone figure
A skier on a mountain
Gliding along like a single dot
In winter's Pointilism
While the world is still
Lit only by floodlights
With their melancholic glow
And a few distant stars
Freckles on the night sky's
Chilly ebony face
...
#winter
#mountains
#snow #sports
#snow #sports
18 reads
0 Comments
dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
29th Sep 2021 00:10am
29th Sep 2021 00:10am
damn it, it’s freezing, he said
a morning as cold as unlived in linen, for god’s sake stay in bed
#winter
30 reads
2 Comments
Scarlett_Midwinter
Poem Published
22nd Sep 2021 4:37pm
22nd Sep 2021 4:37pm
Sugar on Snow
Ladled maple sunshine
Onto stacks of buttermilk timber
With maple candy on our minds
In the aftermath of a blizzard
That gifted us a polar bear rug of snow
Scent of immortal pine
And boiling April rain
Tongues with popsicle sticks entwined
Sending sugar to our brains
And there's nowhere else to go
Save a cabin in the woods
With a proud pot belly stove
Like a fat cast iron gnome
With a heart so fiery red and good
...
Onto stacks of buttermilk timber
With maple candy on our minds
In the aftermath of a blizzard
That gifted us a polar bear rug of snow
Scent of immortal pine
And boiling April rain
Tongues with popsicle sticks entwined
Sending sugar to our brains
And there's nowhere else to go
Save a cabin in the woods
With a proud pot belly stove
Like a fat cast iron gnome
With a heart so fiery red and good
...
#childhood
#forest
#trees
#winter
#spring
26 reads
2 Comments
PoeticInjustice
Poem Published
21st Sep 2021 7:20pm
21st Sep 2021 7:20pm
On the Eve of Autumn
On the Eve of Autumn
I've been riding the Sun for so long now.
Hearing Cicadas sing their summer song.
I wonder,
How much longer
Till they are gone?
Autumn lulls them to sleep
And winter brings silence.
For the cycle of life
So uncompromising,
Is bound by its laws
And demands full compliance.
Tonight the moon rises
On the eve of autumn
And colors will soon shift
To the beauty of aurum.
As summer retires
Enjoy fading light.
Enjoy fading warmth,
For in creeps the night. ...
I've been riding the Sun for so long now.
Hearing Cicadas sing their summer song.
I wonder,
How much longer
Till they are gone?
Autumn lulls them to sleep
And winter brings silence.
For the cycle of life
So uncompromising,
Is bound by its laws
And demands full compliance.
Tonight the moon rises
On the eve of autumn
And colors will soon shift
To the beauty of aurum.
As summer retires
Enjoy fading light.
Enjoy fading warmth,
For in creeps the night. ...
#summer
#winter
#fall
28 reads
2 Comments
Scarlett_Midwinter
Poem Published
17th Sep 2021 00:04am
17th Sep 2021 00:04am
Winter Forest
Dark emerald pagodas
Of evergreen trees
Fragrant bones within
The perfumed skeleton
Of the wintry forest
Trembling skinny maples
Naked under snow like
Lashings of custard cream
Within the beating heart
Of the silent wood
Are sleeping raccoons and
Red squirrels curled up like
Rusty pinwheels full of
Nutty sweet dreams
The heart of the wood beats on
Churning out frosty gusts
Like cold invisible blood
To greet...
Of evergreen trees
Fragrant bones within
The perfumed skeleton
Of the wintry forest
Trembling skinny maples
Naked under snow like
Lashings of custard cream
Within the beating heart
Of the silent wood
Are sleeping raccoons and
Red squirrels curled up like
Rusty pinwheels full of
Nutty sweet dreams
The heart of the wood beats on
Churning out frosty gusts
Like cold invisible blood
To greet...
#forest
#animals
#winter #nature
#winter #nature
31 reads
5 Comments
DU Poetry : Winter Poems
