There is something comforting and cozy in the gentle wintry rhymes of Sheila Lynch-Benttinen's "December Solstice".
Tag: winter
Billy Collins – Shoveling Snow With Buddha
Collins' outlandish and endearing image of the Buddha's wholehearted snow shoveling, with thoughts of hot chocolate and an imminent game of cards.
Kurtis Ebeling – Snowmelt
With the quietude of the rising sun and melting snow, Kurtis Ebeling's "Snowmelt" serves as an ode to springtime and a requiem to winter.
In Praise of Winter Hiking
BY ANTHONY EMERSON December is here, and soon snow will fall and accumulate in amounts that must be measured in feet.
Leslie Ryan – Taking Refuge
An appropriate poem for these cold dark winter days, Leslie Ryan has written lines frozen with ferocious and gorgeous imagery and sparseness--like a rime-coated mountain.
Violeta Garcia-Mendoza – Seasonal Affective Disorder
As the Northern Hemisphere settles into another long cold winter, poet Violeta Garcia-Mendoza offers readers a rather appropriate piece about winter itself, and the gloom that so often seeps into the spirit with the frigid climate.
Adrienne Rich – The Corpse-Plant
The corpse-plant's soft and scaly appearance and its drooping head give it a ghostly, deathly air in Adrienne Rich's poem.
Matthew Kohut – White Ash
A reflection at the end of winter on the cycles of death and renewal.