Icicles on the railings of the old iron bridge,
Glisten like jewels;
A fitting winter’s crown
Over hardened river ice.
Trees wrapped in blankets of snow
Slumbering thru the season,
Offer little refuge on a cold winter day
Except for silent reason
To reflect, on the beauty along the way.
Images of the white breath of solstice,
Like snowy footprints in the mind,
Will remain till [...]

It starts to grow in the morning dew
The beauty it shines through and through
Until one-day it is fully grown
Being grateful its seeds were sown
The flower has blossomed and it stands tall
But sadly it knows it soon will fall
For right now, it is so proud
And in the shade, it does not shrowd
For something that was once [...]

As soon as I awoke
I knew
there’d be no work
for me today
after all I’d been waiting
the entire winter
for a decent snowfall
and here it was
swirling
out of the sky
brilliant flakes
flashing
falling
without end—
infinity
to touch
taste
smell
see
hear
yet
everyone at
Spinoza High School
thought this need childish
and those teachers
who drove in
from Long Island
or Westchester
positively detested
even an inch
on the ground
but I said, “I was born in winter”
the only [...]

A precious little child
Fashioned by God’s own hand,
Sweetness that goes unequaled
by the handiwork of man.
A winter baby sleeping calmly
As mountains beneath a robe of white
And winter winds breathe softly
Of God’s gift this wondrous little life.
This poem was written/submitted by Beate E. Verterano.

God
Please
Return
To
Paradise
Before
Winter
Is
Here
This poem was written/submitted by Aldo Kraas.

Winter is Dis
For the Safeway girl
Winter is discontent
Winter is unrequited love
Winter is in my heart forever
Winter is goes into spring
Winter is
Winter is my heart
Winter is the dart
You threw at me, Erline
This poem was written/submitted by Charles Hice.

This winter night leaves no excuses
For things we haven’t said and done
For all the words we’ve left unspoken
For all the memories foregone.
This winter night still remembers
The times of glory and conquests
The times of shining smiles and faces
The times of love and bitterness.
Whenever you feel sad and lonely
Waiting someone to make a call
Just wipe your [...]

Oh, Winter comes a’calling
To dampen life’s warming days
Spreading across the meadow
Where the last leaf of autumn lays
How sadly does the dying leaf
Flutter ~ to the frosty ground
Its glow a fading ember
Falling softly ~ without a sound
No more to see the sunrise
Above the forest ~ deeply green
Nor to treasure the glowing twilight
As it passes now [...]

Deep Winter and the crystal icicles
outside the window are hanging,
forming
into people’s faces I once knew now gone,
watching
them melt away out of the corner
of my eye while rainbows danced
beneath
their skin shimmering, shining,
translucently swirling quick silver
reflecting
distorted images of white icy trees,
bending,
their frozen branches
reaching
for the ground to escape
her vaporized breath,
crystallized
salty tears, eyes searching the
the grayness of the sky,
taunting [...]

Wine by the fire on a cold winter night a Gelid concordant. The snows of winter has fallen; and the
Winds are decrescent
Wildlife are
Indefatigable
In
Winter-land
Wine by the fire on a cold winter night. Monumental snows are glaciated; and the
Valleys below are elongated
In an alabaster,
Powdery
Splendor.
Engaging winter, where polar bears are denning
And accumbented in a long
Winter sleep. [...]