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Winter Comes

Jeremy S. Turner 1980 (Mountain View, Arkansas)

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Winter comes full of stars and ice.
The lights go up.  The fire glows.
Christmas comes. Christmas goes.
We think of food and joy and sacrifice.

A New Year passes with foggy breath.
The world is white.  The globe is clean.
The ponds ice over with a bluish sheen.
And all the world looks upon death.

About this poem

This poem came to me after a day of reading some Robert Frost. It has much in common with "Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening."

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Written on December 25, 2022

Submitted by jeremyt.40101 on June 16, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABBA CDDC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 298
Words 64
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
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Jeremy S. Turner

I am a forty-three year old gay man with degrees in English Literature and Theatre. I live in rural Arkansas near the town of Mountain View. I live life for my beautiful nieces and nephews and my cat. more…

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