Lyric Poem · Family
One Window's Glow
It isn't really wrapping,
and it was never snow —
it's every mile that's traveled
toward one window's glow.
It's extra chairs and table leaves,
old stories, candlelight:
the year's whole love, collected,
and spent in one warm night.
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“One Window's Glow” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/one-windows-glow
Quick facts
- Poem
- One Window's Glow
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 8 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Rhyming Poems
- Themes
- Family, Love, Winter
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 8 lines · 2 quatrains
- Line length
- Mostly 6-syllable lines (trimeter length).
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Text, source & rights
A traceable edition
Original QuillOak text. Personal sharing is permitted; other reuse requires permission.
- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalOne Window's Glow, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 6723bc72daf17680…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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