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Winter-Time - by Robert Louis Stevenson

{ Poem }

Late lies the wintry sun a-bed,
A frosty, fiery sleepy-head;
Blinks but an hour or two; and then,
A blood-red orange, sets again.

Before the ice is in the pools - by Emily Dickinson

{ Poem }

Before the fields have finished,
Before the Christmas tree,
Wonder upon wonder
Will arrive to me!

Winter Piece - by Harry Martinson

{ Poem }

Delicate ermine tracks
/ cross lightly
/ in eights on the winter snow
/ there where a hidden ice-brook with its white fur roof
/ winds forward,
/ there where…

Staying In - by Charlotte Runcie

{ Poem }

I watch the city shrug its clothes back on.
/ An appaloosa spatter gathers scent
/ that hits the brain the way it hits…

Winter Bairns - by Donald Campbell

{ Poem }

Winter bairns are happed in snaw,
singing merrily on the brae.
Cauld aneuch the wind micht blaw,
it winna worry sic as they.

Snaw - by J. K. Annand

{ Poem }

Es ist ein Schnee gefallen Anon. 16th century
/
/ It’s snawin cats and dugs,
/ Winter’s…

Snaw - by John M. Caie

{ Poem }

Snaw,
/ Dingin’ on slaw,
/ Quait, quait, far nae win’s blaw,
/ Haps up bonnily the frost-grippit lan’.
/ Quait, quait, the bare trees stan’,
/ Raisin’ caul’ fingers…

From a landscape in April - by Robin Fulton Macpherson

{ Poem }

Snowflake grinds against snowflake.
/ Grass creaks like old furniture.
/
/ I spread silence on the fields.
/
/ I bring home thick squares of it
/ to hang…

An Sneachda mun a’ Chuilitheann / The Snow in the Cuillin - by Rody Gorman

{ Poem }

Tha fuachd mu do chridhe
/ Mar an sneachd mun a’ Chuilitheann
/ Ach gu bheil e air tòiseachadh
/ Air leaghadh is leaghadh
/ A-nisd agus an…

air an fhàinne, fada bho ‘shàbaid’ - by Aonghas MacNeacail

{ Poem }

rovaniemi, suomi, am faoilleach, 1998
/
/ mac is athair
/ dol tarsuing na h-aibhne gil
/ o bhruach gu bruach
/ san tìr a tuath
/
/ a coiseachd bàrr an…

‘A single quaver…’ - by Gael Turnbull

{ Poem }

A single quaver
of loosening ice
extends across the silence,
revives the air
with the almost forgotten song
of snow melting to water

Same, Difference - by Robert Crawford

{ Poem }

For Kay
/
/ Since each is shaped
/ by all its drift,
/ by every updraft
/ from high cloud to ground,
/ in all the history of the world
/ a…

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