Solstice Winter Poems

A Vine in Winter – 2-18-25
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A Vine in Winter

January wakes
Whispers with kisses of snow
In floating bits of crystals
Catching weak beams of sunlight
Glinting on Lovestones of...

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Fridged temperatures bite at exposed skin,
Icy cold winds pull and tug on coats, looking for a way in.

Naked trees expose their frozen bark,
It has arrived...

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A Solar trims the Earth's waistline,
while Polars bare all the segments,
Springing up those northern steppes leans sublime,
the Vernal Equinox presents,
then, on March 20th, it will...

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The winter solstice
Is as big as the year
A small reunion
May you have 
The warmest love
On the longest night
The days after this
Are like cold light
Meets the...

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It’s cold
It snowed
I shivered
I shoveled
A Solstice sun
Silently smirked
Iridescent icicles
Licked their lips
A crunch of crusted snow
Battled the scritch of shovels
Headless snowmen
Wandered in wonder
I shoveled
I shivered
It snowed
It’s...

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Winter Is here,
Fear washed away my sorrow with desperation and opportunism,
Now I wait for winter,
For I will meet the woman of my dreams in winter,
Torrid...

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Unable to sleep or pray, I stand  
by the window looking out—  
at moonstruck trees a December storm  
has bowed with ice.

White...

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Radiant crystals illuminate thee, nocturnal mistress
in the wan dawn light where darkness drapes skies
Requiem aeternam bright halo, lies heaven’s portal 
Winters wispy cirrus refracting ring...

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winter solstice arriving...
shortest day and longest night...
silent trees gather forces
for returning light

lighter, longer, brighter days
saunter through the winter gloom...
light triumphs over darkness
renewal awaits...

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As
Winter
Approaches
The sun ascends
From the left of east, 
And sets due left of west. 
During daylight hours sits low, 
After winter solstice, gains height. 
Peaking when...

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Sapphic Poetry 10-22-24 
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Winter

Winter breathes a fantasy into morning.
Wreaths of icy crystalline drift through gardens.
Snowflakes dance a rhapsody over meadows
	Wonderland divine...

Flurries chant their signatures at...

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Autumn morning wakes to the winter solstice.
Shadows lengthen, hiding in lonely forests.
Naked tree limbs reach for the cold moon's brilliance.
   Heavenly silence...

Season's mother...

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Freezer door open early winter crystals emerge...

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I am sunk deep
in the dark of this day,
peer out of a hollow
that holds the tribe's history
drawn in ochre on a rock wall.

Outside is a...

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Winter is when life put on hold.
  Winter is when not hot but cold.

Winter is snow falling on hills.
  Winter is reservoir refills.

Winter...

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