#hibernation poems on Hello Poetry

neth jones Jul 2022

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a curious pallor
      in the tallow beneath my skin
strained of nutrients
    drained of nerve signals
a cold dough of bruise yellow
   expanding in blottings
   spending
   into a skimmed milk white

weened hollow in my desperate fasting
put myself into a 'gallow gasp'
heartbeat ? Quite undetectable
feigning death to evade a debt
but 'Shh !...'
              (i'm just in a pale hibernation)

60 words

#short #brevity #hibernation #homework #pale

Dave Robertson Jan 2022

Socials

The limited palette of the January riverbank,
#nomakeup #nofilter
just the burst capillaries and thread veins
bare

A tired earthy visage,
still allures the blackbird and wren
who never truly got the hang
of saying when
and feast past decency

The idea is to recuperate
and re-emerge fresh and green
but truth seems more like this molasses mud
that hold boots firm

#january #dormant #hibernation #winter #rest

Nat Jan 2022

Dusk

Neither sleet nor snow nor filigree
The desert is ever brusque
Cloudless and cold, an empty gray sea
Hollowed and hid, December's decree
I wake and see the dusk

#dusk #desert #december #winter #hibernation

Mark Toney Dec 2021

Winter Solstice

winter solstice comes
bare trees, long hibernation
~ don’t risk bleeding lips

gardens lie fallow
field mice attempting entry
~ long dark frigid nights

Mark Toney © 2021

Poetry form: Haiku (for you) - Winter solstice—Tuesday, December 21, 2021
The December solstice marks the start of winter, when the South Pole is tilted closest to the Sun, and the Sun’s rays are directly overhead at the Tropic of Capricorn. (The seasons are reversed in the Southern Hemisphere.) The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year.

#haiku #winter #solstice #cold #trees #hibernation #fields #mice #lips

Khoisan Nov 2021

Autumn's lullaby - Haiku

Crackling underfoot
from the leaves around her roots
a furnace for Moms

#trees #hibernation

Gale L Mccoy Feb 2020

fell asleep in arctic waters

seaweed stones and sand
layer on layer over old clothes
made me so heavy deep at sea
in a state of survival
i hibernated in frozen waters
till tide took my body to hot waters

i had to rub skin raw
to grow light enough to breach surface
naked once more
i stand back on the island of my own

#hibernation #body #raw #water

bess goldstein Dec 2019

is loving you ever logical?

I know when it is time to turn the light,
blow out the summer candle,
and allow winter its cold overbearing step.
logic and reason reaches my tongue,
the darkness tastes like cold
settling my body in for a long
empty sleep...

I dream of bad decisions between my fingers.
they taste like summer,
you,
and regret
after the mistakes were made.
warmth has made it so easy
to love you in my dreams...

waking up to the cold
is harder than it seems.

is loving you ever logical??? man idek

#lovepoem #logic #hibernation #sleep #femalepoet #philadelphia #female #lovepoemforhim #depression #mentalhealth

Bansi Adroja Nov 2019

Hibernation

The city always reminds me of you
amber leaves in Hyde Park
your coffee under the trees keeping my hands warm

Our nervous laughs
all the way to our love lost somewhere in the dark
cold shoulders through phone fights

But we never walk away
from a chance of feeling something
like that first date

Hearts out of hibernation

I loved you from that moment
our borrowed time
lost in October sunshine

Far from perfection

#love #october #hibernation #raw #rough

neth jones Nov 2019

subnivean

thrifty fat tree rat

hibernal conditions bid

burrow and becalmed

#haiku #winter #squirrel #hibernation