Collection

Winter Poems

Perfect for snowy days and long nights by the fire.

BY The Editors

River Loisach entering Lake Kochel in Winter
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Winter Love
  •        Just over the horizon a great machine of death is roaring and rearing
           We can hear it always. Earthquake, starvation, the ever-renewing sun of corpse-flesh.

  •        The snow is deep on the ground.
           Always the light falls
           Softly down on the hair of my belovèd.
  •        How like a winter hath my absence been
           From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
  •        I would like to decorate this silence,
           but my house grows only cleaner
Snowy Wonder
  •        In winter
           all the singing is in
           the tops of the trees

  •        All the complicated details
           of the attiring and
           the disattiring are completed!

  •        Squinting through eye-slits in our balaclavas,
           we lurch across Washington Square Park
  •        The cold earth slept below;
           Above the cold sky shone;

  •        Suddenly, in every tree,
           an unseen nest
           where a mountain
           would be.

  •        Lips touching lips,
           did that break my horizon
           as much as those horses broke my belief?

  •        I leant upon a coppice gate
           When Frost was spectre-grey

The Blizzard Of The Self
Winter Is Coming
The Shortest Month