Frozen:

Shhhh be still life is sleeping
beyond the frozen walls
dormant resides the ever beating
hubarb heart of life
mother nature is but resting
from her tireless paintings
all spring and summer
they the flowers
stood in their fine colours
mighty and proud
to their eternal beds they have retired
resting from the sunny days
the stream is halted mid flow
water that once ran freely
feeding the visitors
of summer
now stopped by the onslaught of ice so
birds and their fine plumage
now dark and dingy
sleeping so in nests lined
with their summers young
safe and sound
the fox and the badger
after lazing in the rays so
lay in dens nestled with fallen leaves
from the autumn trees
green and full tall and mighty
sleep they be
so shhhh don't make a sound
for to wake them early
would be to ruin the spring summer chorus
a explosion of colour and life
but amidst the snow
a single snow drop bares its head so
testing checking
calling out come and see come and see
bluebells raise their heads
brrrrrr so very cold here
but still we will stand
and await to greet
the southern sun
once again
and to us she will wave
wrapping us in her rays of joy
as children frolic in the streams so
and the animals bask in the sun
the trees will grow once again
leaves of shade
and the birds will sing once again
their summer sonnets
but for now
life is sleeping
as if frozen in time
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