Winter poems by Donna Harrison

Cover artwork is from Donna’s short story ‘Griffin The Snowman’.

Cold Winter 🥶

Today is cold 🥶 as ice 🧊
That’s not very nice to feel.

It seems harsh this winter ❄️,
On the hill of St Clement,
That has a orange 🍊 tree that stood so still.

To have hope of a warmer day,
never seems to come in that heart 🛖 of mine.
A log 🪵 fireplace 🔥 all warm for me
and you.

⛄️ Snowflake ❄️

A snowflake ❄️ falls on the meadow of St Ivy.
Down to the ground where a snow fairy 🧚‍♂️ Lara lives.
She looked at this winter ❄️ fog 🌫️.

Lara drinks 🍹 a hot 🥵 mug of cocoa in a cottage, all nice 👍 and warm.
She looks at this snowflake that landed on the window 🪟 with such beauty.

It was cold 🥶 that evening. See it turn into 🧊 ice on the 💨 window.
So cold still that it froze 🥶 on the cottage 💨 window 🪟.
All to see, no more ❄️ snowflakes to see.

Freeze 🥶 Land

In a land far away there was a cave full of 🧊 icicles 🥶.
Some had many different colours, like the rainbow 🌈

A wolf 🐺 looks ⬆️ up in the cave where he lives, full of 🧊 ice.
He walks onto the snowy path in the village of Latitude.

Willow the wolf hears the wind 💨 and sees such a mist 🌫️ of
fog 🌫️ in the cold 🥶 night 🌑 air.

Snowy Hill

In the middle was a hill covered in snow ⛄️.
Snowflakes ❄️ trickle down the hill of St Clementine
To see no oranges 🍊, no leaves 🍁.
On branches of this once beautiful 😍 orange 🍊 tree 🌳.

It blows cold 🥶 wind 💨 on the meadow in middle of winter ❄️.
A snowy owl 🦉 stood still on another branch of the 🌳 tree.

Snowy Owl

In the cold ❄ winter
There stood a tree 🌊 with an owl on the branch.
She saw the morning sky as the sun ☀ rises.

She had such magnificent white feathers.
That looked like the snow 🌨.
Spreads her wings so wide to see.

She flew into the winter sky, never to be seen again.