Category: Poetry

Poetry

Winter when

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Will you be gone

I haven’t had my full of hot chocolate and tea

But I’m done with your bitter coldness nipping at me as I go out into the night on my way to work.

Or as I come out of work and go home.

And even probably wrapped up I still feel you in my bones.

You have brought chaos this season with the snow and increased illnesses around.

It’s time you let us breathe the spring air and see the flowers again.

I know every season has its moment but I do think you are hogging the spotlight for a little too long.

So goodbye and I think I’ll skip you next year.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2025 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

I want to

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Capture everything this time around

From the photos of everyone holding random objects.

Cut up photos to make collages and create art as simple as can be.

To paint like there’s no time to count down and there’s no worry if it’s good enough.

So light your candle and take notes in your little book and let’s get to creating for time has provided us some joy and peace.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2025 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

If only

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I could make a wish and bring you back

So then I would know this pain would be gone.

But I also know you can’t go back and get what you lost for life is unlike a movie.

So today I wish the pain would hurt just a little bit less and that the happiness your memories bring me should last a little longer.

Your smile and bark will always be in my heart.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2025 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Oh how

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I wish I could truly laugh and smile so hard right now with you.

But these last few days my heart has been broken and joy is far from my mind.

Where now life feels more like surviving than living.

I know only time will heal this pain but without you, everything feels so strange.

It’s been 12 years of fun and love and now you’re gone too soon I feel but I know you are with God and when we said our goodbyes it was so sad for it was out of nowhere.

As the days before you were so full of life and cuteness.

Now may you rip and we will always love you and carry the memories of how you were our good boy.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2025 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

First month

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Of the new year over and all I seemed to seek was rest.

With a little bit of inspiration

I would sleep and read and listen to my body.

Maybe I went too hard last year, and now I must rest this year.

And when I am up to it, I know rest will not be all I seek these days.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2025 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Not so

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Cold anymore

To just think of how cold it has been sends a shiver down my spine.

To see it’s now back in the two digits and getting close to the fifties feels better.

But the cold is still here and it makes me want to skip winter and go to spring but I know spring won’t last long enough.

And I will be begging for summer to be over and fall to be here.

So for now I will layer up and enjoy being wrapped in blankets and have the appropriate jackets and clothes for outdoors.

And the right time comes so will spring and for now I will enjoy my teas and hot chocolate and watch movies and TV shows that are set to warmer climates.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2025 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Winter you come

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And you stay

With your windy days

And snowy mornings that turn into cold nights that feel so frosty.

You may need to be thawed out by a warm fire.

But wait not yet for you have to shovel some snow and salt some sidewalks and then when it’s all said and done.

Only then can you sit by the fire, drink some hot chocolate, and melt away the cold of another winter day.

While wondering when will this winter end.

So you can say goodbye to the cold mornings and nights and hello to the warmth and sunshine and nice breezy spring days.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2025 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

When

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Art becomes more than paint on a canvas

Words on a page

Thoughts and ideas that come to life or stay buried out of sight.

When the truth and beautiful become one

Or ugly and painful and messy moments become relatable and powerful pieces.

But wait art can be tasted and smelled and touched and felt and of course seen but its

When life and art become one like breathing and the beating of my heart and the pumping of the blood through my veins are keeping me alive and sane.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2025 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Taking a moment

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To read and get lost in a book

Founding warmth in my blankets as the story unfolds around me.

To get lost and to enjoy this book is all I hope for tonight.

I know my moment of rest is here and I’m excited to see where this story goes.

But it’s got me thinking about what is next for my book, the story of my life.

Since I haven’t planned out much for this year.

Maybe it is because last year, I did alot of planning some of it worked out, and some well didn’t.

I’m looking forward to what this year holds, as I trust things will work out.

But for now, I will rest and relax and read until I got more on my plate and then I will probably wish for rest again.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2025 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

Happy New Year

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The hope for a new experience and joy

The anticipation of something great happening.

Finally, I won’t be standing in my way because this year is all about taking a leap of faith and trusting it’s gonna work out.

Because I believe in myself and I want a lot to happen this year.

So Heres to working hard and playing hard and trusting myself and taking the time to rest because self-care matters too.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2025 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

The end of 2024 is here!

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I can’t believe this year is done and a new year is right around the corner.

This year has had a lot of ups and downs. I would have liked to change a couple of things but I know now it all happened for a reason.

I’ve learned a lot of new things and met a lot of good people and bonded more with a dear friend.

Who helped me believe more in myself.

My word of the year was faith and boy did it test me this year but when I trusted and leaned on it I was safe and grew too.

Faith I will keep leaning on and trusting when God says to do something do it. I’m hoping my year-long writer’s block will stay in 2024.

For I miss writing poetry and stories. But at least I’ve read some great books this year.

I hope to read more great books next year write some great books and relax more while being abundantly blessed.

2024 was a year of surprises good and bad but I am grateful for being able to travel to Paris for my bday with my sisters and taking time to find myself and learning new stuff and meeting new people.

I’m thankful to still have this blog and the support from all of you and I hope 2025 blesses us all as we live in the present and go for what makes us happy.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2024 By Deirdre Stokes

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Christmas

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Is over and all the presents are opened and the wrapping paper is all in the trash.

The gifts are still holding our attention but for how much longer?

I hope long enough but who knows maybe by the time all the decorations and the tree is gone our desire for those gifts will be gone as well.

The warmth from the fireplace will be around longer than our thoughts of those gifts.

For it’s gonna be a cold winter and it is always nice to sit by the fire and enjoy the warmth.

But soon we will have to leave the cabin and go back to reality and not see or feel the magic only Christmas would bring around this time of year.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2024 By Deirdre Stokes

Poetry

So cold

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Outside and here I am blowing on my hands for warmth hoping that will be enough until I get back to the car.

I didn’t want to be out today but this was the first snow of the season and all my friends had come out today.

Besides the cold, the snow-covered grass and trees brought back great memories of when we were all in middle school and would meet up on snow days and play until we were too cold or our parents came to collect us.

Those were the carefree days and sometimes I wonder now as an adult will ever have more of those days.

Or will my joy only be watching my kids experience it now? To see the wonder in their eyes as they play in the cold until I call them in to warm up.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2024 By Deirdre Stokes

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Finishing up

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the tree because, like always, we ran out of time talking the night away.

Oh, how I appreciate this time of year when you are so near.

But like clockwork, you go back to work and I finish up what little decorations we have left and then enjoy it with you another day.

As the countdown is now three days to Christmas, I can’t wait to see your face when you open the gift that brings you more present joy than you have felt in a while.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2024 By Deirdre Stokes

My thoughts, Poetry

Oh how

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The frost tries to come around

But its not cold enough for it to stay

But I still feel the chill in my bones, no matter how many layers I put on.

The need to drink something hot all day is intense.

But I can make it through with a heated blanket and a layer of two.

It is so warm. I will be so wrapped up and happy, and I will cherish the warmth once more.

Written By: Deirdre Stokes Copyrighted ©️ 2024 By Deirdre Stokes