when love melted snow….#1

Snow fell gently outside
Inside, your eyes on me
Melted me, warmed me
made the ice dream drip

in the dark of winter

We look out across the field
covered with snow from the night before
I gaze into your eyes and never want to see spring
and lose this warm winter feeling

let winter be

Take the summer sun as you leave
And all the falling autumn leaves
But don’t take away my December
When at last it is winter

a walk in the snow

Come he said
And I followed
Putting my heart
In his hands
Take the path
Down south
And I said, yes
I will follow

a tiny snowflake in a city by the lake

I walked into the city one cold windy day and saw a man in gray
He had an umbrella made of steel with fine lines on display
I had seen that kind of umbrella once before
Described in a story I read while sitting on the floor

Wintertime tangents

Off at a tangent
at this time of year
When it’s still wintertime
but the spring is quite near
It’s getting lighter each day
and at evening time too
And though trees are still bare
there are signs of the new

Skidding Past A Woods On A Snowy Evening

Whose tracks those are I think I know
His auto’s by trees yonder, though;
He cannot see me skidding past
(His windows buried deep in snow.) 

My Subaru must think it queer
To try to stop in any gear
Trapped ‘tween ditch and looming truck
Whee! First ice storm in this crappy year!

Safety brakes cause wheels to shake
Miss the truck? ‘Tis a grim sweepstake
The only other sound the squeals
Of a useless scream and semi’s brakes.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
And I now wish I’d picked the Jeep,
But tears’ll freeze if now I weep,
But tears’ll freeze if now I weep.

*With apologies to Robert Frost

Winter – sedoka

As winter takes hold
Autumn fades to memory
with a tinge of sadness there

Yet with the winter
Crystalline treasures return
and we are richer for that

Shivering – #DailyHaikuChallenge

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Spark of Morning Blaze

Rhapsody in frozen Song

Shivering Wonder

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Four Seasons

Living in this part of town,

Didn’t realize autumn is here.

Outside the window I’ve seen

Maple tree is still green.

Winter’s Embrace

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Snow-laden branches

Snow Surprise

A gasp of winter’s white covered the ground last night.

Crystalline Tears

 

Spilling from the Whispering Wind,

Delicate Upon the Frozen Breeze,

Into the Storm

In the distance far behind me
A tree stands faintly showing
Wrapped within a cape of white
Amid the sharp winds blowing

Four colours

 

White for the winter
Spring gets the green
Yellow for summer
Autumn gold we have seen

Snowflake

See her Dance upon the Shifting Breeze,

Serenade Falling through barren trees,

The evening of the year

 

Beauty wears a frown
as Autumn colours fade and die
The Summer’s warmth now distant
as the year it hurries by

December looms. Finality
Twenty-fifteen almost done
Now in the throws of Winter
the Spring has far to come

Snow Cover

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Quiet solitude as the snow gently falls
Frost forms on the window, nature’s art
Cold fingers tracing patterns on the glass
Using memories to help warm the heart.

No snow

It rarely snows in Sussex
Down here by the sea
And although it tried this morning
It petered out quickly

shovelling

@ teandpaper

 

force my dear hubby

free me of the heavy snow

i need to go out

squish

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Winter afternoon

Walking on a white path

Boots making squish squish

Sunshine washing my face

Serenity all over my body

Northern bound

 

Left Shoreham on a crystal day
Northern bound am I
Heading up to Newcastle
Where snows awaiting lie

whiteness

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outside all whiteness

eyes are burning from the bright

much stillness out there

The Year 2015…!!

From wince the end starts the beginning.
A fresh – blanketed in new found white.

Sledding in Winter

A country road is all a-glow.
Snow piles on parallel rows.

The day after Christmas

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The day after Christmas

Blue Sky

Frozen – Ice Hotel Poetry Challenge

Poetry challenge: Ice hotel poem.

The air stirs crisp and cold

It cuts like your wounding words

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Winter wonderland
Of pain and
Beauty,
Meat slab cold
Skin,
Desiring no more