Daily Drafts & Dialogues

Daily Drafts & Dialogues

Winter Light

Here’s a poem I wrote about winter. What would your poem about winter look like?

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K. E. Creighton
Dec 22, 2025
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Winter Light

The promise of assumed barren boughs 
stretching across the frozen solid ground 
protecting new life from frigid winds 
until time springs it up and out again
through thawing sheets of thick ice
protecting diverse lands with stilling waters 
blanketing the rivers and lakes of quiet 
endless nights warm against the fireside
burning lasting me…
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