Metaphor Winter Poems

The whirlpool stars of the Milky Way appeared when she was feeling grey.
Mother-of-pearl constellations shimmered across her skin in the candlelight.
Saturn’s red rings spiraled wildly...

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Trees’ leaves were ripped off,
leaving nakedness behind
with teasing winter:-

Nude trees not ashamed
as winter winds teased them;
their hope barked in spring:-

Through thrusting winter,
naked trees never gave...

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Tonight, the dark sky again
only slept a short while;
no longer eager to cheat
its sun’s awakening joy
over the horizon’s realm;

Bulky white yawning clouds
hovered over the night-shaded
ground...

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Awakened naturally—no need to go
to the bathroom—I peeked  through
the blinds of the bedroom window and
there it was; had I been dreaming or was
this all...

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The winter of our discontent is over,
the Merciful God of the oppressed
has seen to the de-icing of our hued souls;
and the blossoming essence of our...

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The winter stared at me, hollow-eyed and grim,
flakes of snow draped the earth in silence.
My lips quivered, teeth rattling their cold refrain,
and they danced—not with...

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“Winter is coming”
I looked at my other, shaking my head
“Darling, it’s Spring”
She just looked at me blankly
“Winter is coming”
I opened my eyes and roll over...

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Passionflowers winter-wilted and passionless,
twining around the treillage of a wintry world,
winter-weakened, flower-frail in the ice-vice of cold's hold.

Ice-ivy creeping and strangling; a crunching and grinding...

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Vines in the spring of my life
were sturdy and spry. Utterly dependable,
they ran along the many parts of my body.
Able to cling to ligaments, tendons...

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A STILLED POND

Once a wet playground,
A ducks' and frogs' Disneyland!
Now quiet and stilled:-
Winter is no friend to ponds;
freezing out their livelihoods:-
...

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A bright sunny day...
Naked tree branches glowing...
Ground-snow reflecting...
What a deceiving cold day
Juxtaposed nature canvassed!...

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HELL'S WINTER

Palisade fires
canvassing hell here on earth;
hot flames rioting!...

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I drive alone down misty roads
where the morning’s frost still lingers
on the earth, grass, leaves unreached
by the feeble winter sun 
whose fingers slowly withdraw
into the...

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Love is a kaleidoscope of colours
Dawn of spring after each winter season
A glass of champagne to uplift my spirit
Hand in hand
Love came to me like...

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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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