Winter Echoes

Shadows

Of leaves and flowers -

Can you hear them?

They bring

Echoes,

Melodies

That resonate

In cold

Isolated

Winter months.

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Shadows

And images

Traipse through

The woods

To reveal

Memories of

Days spent

In the sun

Now just a reflection

In the ice.

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Shadows

In the haunted,

Crystallized

Walls of home,

Warmed by

Memories of you.

Do you feel them

Occupy

The vacancy

In your heart?

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Shadows

Of new birth

Seen in the

Sun-kissed snow.

You, along with

The ice,

Melt

To reveal

A new umbra -

Is it really you?

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Echoes

Of shadows

In winter

Evolve, reflect

A penumbra,

An eclipse

To welcome

Newly born,

Diversity and

Life.