Winter Poems

Popular Winter Poems
January
by John Updike

The days are short,
The sun a spark,
Hung thin between
The dark and dark.

Fat snowy footsteps
Track the floor.
Milk bottles burst
Outside the door.


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Her Voice
by Oscar Wilde

THE wild bee reels from bough to bough
With his furry coat and his gauzy wing.
Now in a lily-cup, and now
Setting a jacinth bell a-swing,
In his wandering;
Sit closer love: it was here I trow
I made that vow,

Swore that two lives should be like one
As long as the sea-gull loved the sea,

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Birches
by Robert Frost

When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay.
Ice-storms do that. Often you must have seen them
Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning
After a rain. They click upon themselves
As the breeze rises, and turn many-coloured
As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel.
Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells

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Between the Two
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

The smell of incense was heavy
And guarded the dingy room well.
Time passed slowly like the stifling breath of Yuletide
They were hiding from — the two lovers of Venice —
A woman with dark, luxuriant hair
And a man with a running nose.
Scent-leaf from Africa
Roasted over the fireplace with a tangible fragrance.
A lone candle burned and crackled,
Its tallow dripping profusely with crusts of romance —

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Fear No More
by William Shakespeare

Fear no more the heat o' the sun;
Nor the furious winter's rages,
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages;
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney sweepers come to dust.

Fear no more the frown of the great,
Thou art past the tyrant's stroke:
Care no more to clothe and eat;

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Recent Winter Poems
observance
by Rikske Kessner

In the heart of winter, I stand,
Surrounded by a landscape of white silence.
The snow blankets the earth,
Each flake a delicate touch,
Soft, yet unyielding in its cold embrace.

The trees are skeletal fingers,
Reaching up to a sky of muted gray,
Their limbs bare, stripped of life,
Yet beautiful in their stark simplicity.

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Winters Embrace.
by Laurence Argyll Simon Noond

Winter wraps us in her cold embrace,
Icy chills whipping across our face.
Leafless bough; a muddy place,
Winter is showing us; her harsh face.

Looing out from atop Pinnacle Hill,
Church Spires wrapped in a misty chill,
Bredon in the distance; cold and still,
Winter is settling down on every hill.


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Winter storm
by Mario Marcou

A winter footprint in prime
I wasn't looking for the love of crime.
A well meaning will, mended
by spoken cloth.
Reluctant snow bought
pressure for me to bow
weathered eyes beneath my brow.
Sheltered but warns a busy storm
an unlikely norm.
Soon delightful words to corn.

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Yayu's AI Winter Moon
by Yayu Uppsurya

In winter's shroud, the moon arises, a sage,
Clad in robes of frost, her visage grave and pale.
She wanders 'mongst the sleeping, barren age,
A silent sentry in the velvet veil.

Her gaze, a shepherd's crook, guides weary souls,
Through nights of ice and desolation's hold.
Beneath her lantern, fields of snow unroll,
Where silence whispers tales of ancient scrolls.


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A Winter Sonnet
by Everleigh Blackburn

Upon the earth, a soft and silent shroud,
The first snowfall whispers secrets untold,
Each flake a dream, in silver light endowed,
As nature dons her gown of purest gold.

In quiet awe, the world begins to pause,
The air, a crisp embrace, so fresh and bright,
While laughter dances, children's joyful cause,
Their footprints weave a tale in gleaming white.


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Popular Famous Poets about Winter
  • John Clare
    John Clare (14 poems about Winter)
    13 July 1793 – 20 May 1864 / Northamptonshire / England
  • James Arlington Wright
    James Arlington Wright (6 poems about Winter)
    13 December 1927 – 25 March 1980 / Ohio
  • Wallace Stevens
    Wallace Stevens (6 poems about Winter)
    October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955 / Pennsylvania / United States
  • Edward Thomas
    Edward Thomas (6 poems about Winter)
    3 March 1878 - 9 April 1917 / London / England
  • Matsuo Basho
    Matsuo Basho (5 poems about Winter)
    1644 - 1694 / Iga Province / Japan
  • Henry David Thoreau
    Henry David Thoreau (5 poems about Winter)
    12 July 1817 – 6 May 1862 / Concord, Massachusetts
  • Robert Francis
    Robert Francis (4 poems about Winter)
    August 12, 1901 - July 13, 1987 / Pennsylvania / United States
  • Anthony Evan Hecht
    Anthony Evan Hecht (4 poems about Winter)
    16 January 1923 - 20 October 2004 / New York
  • John Arthur Phillips
    John Arthur Phillips (4 poems about Winter)
    1842-1907 / Canada
  • Reginald Shepherd
    Reginald Shepherd (4 poems about Winter)
    April 10, 1963 – September 10, 2008 / New York City
Popular Poets about Winter From Members
  • Barbara Maxwell Deraoui
    Barbara Maxwell Deraoui (3 poems about Winter)
    October 30, 1953- Wisconsin
  • Hannah Woerner
    Hannah Woerner (2 poems about Winter)
    02/28- Marshalltown
  • Sonia Ahmed
    Sonia Ahmed (1 poem about Winter)
    I was born on October 27th in Connecticut. Ever since then, I’ve moved to new places every three years of my life, so I’ve had many diverse experiences and such.
  • Lord Antony
    Lord Antony (1 poems about Winter)
    Poet, at least I think so
  • Brice Bauer
    Brice Bauer (1 poems about Winter)
    October 17, 2000 - Missouri
  • Barry Howarth
    Barry Howarth (1 poems about Winter)
    L.A. 13th
  • Joe Machetto
    Joe Machetto (1 poems about Winter)
    August 29 1951. New Jersey
  • D G
    D G (1 poems about Winter)
    Scotland
  • Adam Bowman
    Adam Bowman (1 poems about Winter)
    03/22/1996, Cincinnati Ohio
  • Joakim Balu
    Joakim Balu (1 poem about Winter)
    March 11, 2005-Montreal