Winter Journal: Threshed Blue, Cardings, Dim TonsilsBy Emily Wilsonstripped batting of cloud glimpsed ligaments dusk coming up under lithographic, nib-hatchings instruments...NatureWinterLandscapes & PastoralsTrees & Flowers
To a Wreath of SnowBy Emily BrontëO transient voyager of heaven! O silent sign of winter skies! What adverse wind thy sail has driven...NatureWinterLandscapes & PastoralsWeatherSocial CommentariesCrime & PunishmentReligionThe SpiritualLivingTime & BrevityStanza FormsQuatrainMetersFree VerseTechniquesImageryMetaphorTypes/ModesOdeGratitude + 13 more
PreludesBy T. S. EliotI The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o’clock. The burnt-out ends...NatureWinterSocial CommentariesCities & Urban LifeReligionFaith & DoubtLivingStanza FormsMixed + 2 more
Growing SeasonBy Angela Voras-HillsOn the bike path, a bunny's body and blood where the head should be. Something has torn off its foot...NatureWinterTrees & FlowersGrief
The Snow Arrives After Long SilenceBy Nancy WillardThe snow arrives after long silence from its high home where nothing leaves tracks or strains or keeps...NatureWinter
Winter MorningBy James CrewsWhen I can no longer say thank you for this new day and the waking into it, for the cold scrape of the...NatureWinterLiving
p1Wind ShearBy Janice N. HarringtonUnder the magnolia, a winter-starved hare stills and pretends it is not there, and wanting less of fearfulness...NatureWinterLivingMelancholy & Despair
p1The BurningBy Liz BerryIt was the hard winter she came, frozen larks plummeting through the gloam like falling stars, each ...NatureWinter
First SnowBy Arthur SzeA rabbit has stopped on the gravel driveway: imbibing the silence, you stare at spruce needles: there...NatureWinterAnimalsLivingTime & Brevity
p1When It ArrivedBy C.L. O’DellIt was delivered to me in the snow. The kids were all sleeping in separate corners of the house like...NatureWinterThe MindDoubt & ContemplationRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsHome LifeAnxiety & Insecurity
p1February & my love is in another stateBy José Olivarezso when i walk down the street, i hold hands with the wind. there’s a chimney coughing up ahead & a ...LoveNatureWinterRelationshipsActivitiesSports & Outdoor ActivitiesAnxiety & InsecurityJoy & Contentment
p1Battery Park in WinterBy Chase BerggrunNear noon in the city in the park in the salted air in the cold cringe cringing two hands glued red ...NatureWinterSocial CommentariesCities & Urban LifeActivitiesSports & Outdoor Activities
p1Might Have Been July, Might Have Been DecemberBy Robert WrigleyMore oblique the eagle’s angle than the osprey’s precipitous fall, but rose up both and under them dangled...NatureSummerWinterAnimalsSeas, Rivers, & StreamsThe MindDoubt & ContemplationStanza FormsQuatrainJoy & Contentment + 3 more
p1MuzzleBy Julia SalemIn a bleary part of town, I traverse the blackboard silence of snow. Through the slats of the cypresses...NatureWinterRelationshipsDisappointmentJoy & Contentment
White LieBy Austin SmithChristmas Eves our dad would bring Home from the farm real hay For the reindeer that didn't exist And...NatureWinterLivingYouth
Sugar Water in WinterBy Christie TowersA bowl of rose water dreams itself empty on the radiator: It's December and we can hardly afford the...NatureWinterSocial CommentariesMoney & Economics
p1The Years of Water & LightBy Ruth AwadIn the rowboat I tied her shoes. And the river cussed and spat. Our feet swelled and our bellies begged...NatureWinterLivingSorrow & GrievingThe MindMemory & NostalgiaTime & BrevityRelationshipsGrief + 2 more
p1Jagged Winter Trail DesignsBy Sy Hoahwah The wagon and mule, Time and Eternity, stop to change places. Their lean and slope-back shadow, my ...NatureWinterLandscapes & PastoralsSocial CommentariesHistory & PoliticsLivingTime & Brevity
A poem from From a Winter NotebookBy Matvei YankelevichAs winter went on, every morning’s spoon of buckwheat honey resembled more the taste of that isosceles...LoveDesire & PassionRomantic LoveNatureWinterLivingGrowing OldMidlifeThe BodyThe MindMemory & NostalgiaTime & BrevityRelationshipsMen & WomenActivitiesEating & DrinkingIndoor ActivitiesDisappointment + 11 more
[Today, running along the river]By Jimmy Santiago Baca2. Today, running along the river, dead leaves cling to cathedral cottonwood branches, snap in the gusty...LoveNatureWinterAnimalsLandscapes & PastoralsRelationshipsActivitiesSports & Outdoor ActivitiesMetersFree Verse + 3 more