Winter Sonnet Poems

Winter has gone and summer’s getting near.           
Ladybird eggs warm up in the sunlight ...

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Can anything be colder than a day

When clouds of winter make the sun’s embrace

Become a shadow of its former grace

And summer’s verdure gives in to...

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Harbinger of Spring

A perfect beauty, lover of sunshine
Casting her brilliance, a warm golden glow
Pride of my patch Winter Jasmine sublime
Drawing the eye with her fantastic...

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shorts,white socks
sandals and panama-
winter-white legs

no wind,blue skies
dozing in a deckchair-
my afternoon tea stews

hottest day of summer
flying ants on high-
a swallows' drive by

summer-days ever-lasting
memories so tender-tasting...

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Frost bites through Kildare's darkness as I trace
Memories of home in hamon's sweet steam
San Fernando's parols paint sacred space
While Dublin's tinsel scorns my distant dream

Mama's...

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I love the winter, the way it whirls my breath
Away; reminds me I am alive, there's hope.
I love the ferns bejeweled in snow, the heath
As...

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Love is the splendour that mystifies me
A rainbow in the sky colours my mind
Rapture bosom in high-spirited glee
Blind by passion, beloved we enshrined

Romance,...

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Beneath the pallid moon’s cool grace
Icy boughs in silence bow
Where frost veils the earth in lace
Winter whispers through them now.

The wind, a cello’s mournful cry
Its...

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The springtime of our distant youth was when
 we made sweet love beneath a silver moon.
 The whole of life stretched out before us then....

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Morning thoughts of you roses full of dew 
gardens full of summer love, sweet romance  
here inside your arms we rebirth brand-new 
like the...

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How dark the air that winter brings to bear
Its dampness crawls into my very soul
A sickly moon attempts some light to share
As through the mist...

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I hear the honking of geese overhead;
there is a chill lingering in the air.
And I see scarlet and crimson flames spread
across canopies of green everywhere.

Nights...

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The leaves of autumn blush in crimson hue,
A farewell whispered soft to summer's grace,
As golden light descends to take its place,
And forests don their robes...

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Tiny! Chocolate grain! Medicine for the mind and heart!
In nature's senses of flavours, doesn't this play a part?
Didn't it look granule-like when you the Trinity...

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