Winter's Echoes

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Icicles hang on the edges
Silence creeping into the conversation
Revealing the boredom of this skirt
Tendrils of frozen water suspended
On hearts, hopes and dreams

Moonlight flickers on the night
Ebony haven of owl and coyote
Animals wild and warmed by floods
Glimmering rays from stars
Drowning out the buzz of details
Racing through minds haunted
By gray clouds and mist
Moments of intimate darkness
Creeping into the spirit
Dimming dread and expunging
Fears of life’s breathless
Eagerness to expect the best

Heavy handed snow showers
Form a clean, white earth
Innocent of all the horrors
Sorrows and grief, disillusionment
Sleeping beneath the layers
Feathery snow angels created
By pale bodies, dancing
With the flakes so alive
Beckoning to laughter
Warming the frozen whispers
Sighs of soft flurries
Erasing the earth’s murky past
Coloring the very air
In timid, cloudy skies silver
Feelings, promises, visions
History repeated each season
As the drifts cover up filth
With fluff, downy as grace
Reassuring hearts who face
Wars with despondent distress
Dismay that is poured out
Across the lavender seas
Ghostlike fogs of disbelief

Buttery sun caresses
Naked ideas, peaceful
Relieving the winds of loss
Trading warmth for the cold
Creating a singsong hope
In the one who knows
Winter bows to the embrace
Of the morning sunlight
The sigh of a blazing moment
Arrayed in breathless promises
Reminding dreams to believe
And stories to take up their pen
Creativity to sing again

The day wipes away the gray
Replacing the worry with faith
The darkness with light
The heartless with heartfelt 
Peace winds its way through minds
Overgrown with weeds of noise
Turbulence from the hardness
Bound up in chains of shame
The day penetrates with thanks
Gratitude for the awakening
Of a new dawn, a second thought
The moments who stir up praise
For the master, the maker, the Creator
The One who gave us the laughter
The melody and the hereafter
The One who made a way
Where there seemed to be no way

Thanks to the sunny way
Created by the hands who stay
Alive on the hearts who believe
Listening to His blessings who bring
Second chances, new days, 
Amazing grace that awakens
The heart to His intimate compassion
Love that forever stays
Alive, dancing with sweetest faith
Seeking Him who makes each day
Feel like a second chance to pray
For the light who pours out on the soul
Who knows He is the Lord of all
He is the Lord, who encourages our love


5/26/22

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Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 5/31/2022 9:28:00 AM

Regina, this is a wondrous masterpiece! It is so deserving of your Trophy win. Congratulations my friend. I was enchanted from beginning to end. Blessings xxoo