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January Poems | Examples of January Poetry

January Flower
JANUARY 2023 You keep checking the date, Like the days can pass in hours. And you know you'll be bitter if you miss it. Just keep checking the time you fool. But the days can pass in hours, And you keep...Read the rest...
Categories: january, love,
Form: Blank verse
Christmas Is Five Days Dead
Evergreen corpses strewn on sidewalks like victims of plague, still adorned with specks of tinsel abandoned and forlorn once welcome houseguests now in the street never to greet another New Year all the presents unwrapped put in proper place beside last...Read the rest...
Categories: january, bereavement, christmas, december, depression,
Form: Free verse



Freyja put to shame
pale blue Polar vortex/ pre-dawn light, puce, gold glow/ no match, She trades Her mere myth for the Depth...Read the rest...
Categories: beauty, faith, growth, january,
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member Woodsmoke in the Wind
My long-lost winter is here Even if it has not snowed, For by and by, woodsmoke is near Drifting slow across the road A most distinctive scent It carries to the nose, Up, up a chimney vent Where a fireplace glows Quite pleasant,...Read the rest...
Categories: january, appreciation, december, february, fire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My January Fix Brought February's Kick
8x8x8x8 Poetry Contest Charles Messina So here we are in the new year Throw confetti wishes and cheer January opened its doors nicely Merry old me entered modestly Shook the monkey off my back Took his banana in place of a snack How...Read the rest...
Categories: january, celebration, desire, health,
Form: Rhyme



Gifts of the Winter Witch
A venetian red yearling’s head Pops up From behind a fallen log Licks rouge from its lips And the syrup sipped from dark maple bark Ears tweaking To the snow-crunch creak Of my dog and me approaching From down the trail Forest Tamed by these...Read the rest...
Categories: angel, animal, earth, january,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member January 1973
January 27, 1973 I was sitting in the barracks yelling and screaming echoed through the halls sirens blaring, horns blowing, fireworks popping; the war was over ...Read the rest...
Categories: january, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Never Abandon Stellar Ambitions
Whoosh. Whoosh. A fire beneath steel, The engines burn, the heavens kneel. Thrum. The pulse of courage, the beating heart, Each mission a daring work of art. Seven names on Challenger’s sky, They rose with dreams, they dared to fly. Crack. Pop. Boom. The...Read the rest...
Categories: january, appreciation, death, february, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member January
In whispered hushes, the year awakes, A canvas fresh, where dreams will take. January’s breath, crisp and clear, A brushstroke bold in time’s frontier. Fireworks bloom in velvet skies, Dreams ignited, hopes aimed high. Resolutions inked in hearts anew, Paths imagined, leading...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, beauty, celebration, january,
Form: Rhyme
Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite
Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite (any relationship between the following poem and living persons - namely the writer of these words ranks as purely coincidental and fictitious). nevertheless he suffers existential blight covered head to toe in black and blue bruises linkedin...Read the rest...
Categories: january, adventure, allegory, animal, atheist,
Form: Free verse
My music adventure
May 2024, when I decided to stay away, To help keep my feelings at bay. I found a piano at this place. Started practicing, thinking of impressing someone. Now, the friendship has long gone. I continue to play the piano...Read the rest...
Categories: feelings, happy, january, money,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member As Children Watch the Florida Sky: 38 Years Gone By
Tick-tick. The countdown starts, Dreams ignite in hopeful hearts. Eyes so wide, they cannot stray, The Florida sky calls them to stay. Whoosh. Whoosh. A rocket’s flame, A silver arrow carves its name. Thirty-eight years, yet echoes ring, Of seven souls who chased the...Read the rest...
Categories: january, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Winter Jasmine
Sweetness is a Jasmine January Seeds its scent along the inkberry Starflowers streaming a...Read the rest...
Categories: january,
Form: Rhyme
My first posted poem
Thursday, 2025.1.16 Happy birthday to my sister. She turns a mile stone at the new corner. Now she earns the title of being a senior. Congratulations to you, my sister. Congratulations to me too. Today, I was introduced the Poetry's world. I...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, birthday, january, poems,
Form: Free verse
Metallic and ancient it slept
Found the abandoned misused tomb Metallic and ancient it slept Airstream trailer, silver bullet I wandered the forest and wept Found a rusted knife in the ash Metallic and ancient it slept A kitchen tool, left in the rain It was just...Read the rest...
Categories: 11th grade, january,
Form: Rhyme

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