While winter writes love notes again

While winter writes love notes,
we hunker down in a world of white.

Instead of flowers,
storms bring ice in fists.

Love can be a monster,
scribbled poems in the margins

of a frozen puddle,
or on an uncrushed flower,

yearning to burst into constellations
and dance in green shafts of spring

again.

Kim M. Russell, 14th January 2025

Image by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash

It’s Tuesday, the day for Poetics at the dVerse Poets Pub, where we are diving into margins with our host, Dora, who is in a philosophical mood. She says that “the month of January is a margin delineating transition, an interstitial calendrical space creating the same effect as physical and emotional spaces or times in our lives”.

Dora has compiled a list of margins, and examples from a range of poems, as inspiration for poems on themes of our choosing, involving a margin of any kind, a diving off point, event, place, landscape, or concept. I’ve reworked an old poem I wrote back in February 2021 for a Poets and Storytellers United Weekly Scribblings prompt.

38 thoughts on “While winter writes love notes again”

  1. This is sheer poetic brilliance, Kim! ❤️❤️ I especially like; “Love can be a monster, scribbled poems in the margins of a frozen puddle, or on an uncrushed flower.” Yes!

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  2. So lovely, Kim, especially the thought of “winter writing love notes”, even as its love “can be a monster”! Every image speaks to me of the tender longing for spring.

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  8. A marvelous write, Kim. These lines I especially am moved by
    “Love can be a monster,
    scribbled poems in the margins

    of a frozen puddle,
    or on an uncrushed flower,”

    The imagery makes the emotions visceral….beautifully done.

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  11. I love the art you chose! ‘Poems scribbled in margins’ brought a knowing smile to my face. I was the recipient of a few in high school. Sigh. Great poetry, Kim.

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