2026 Winter Poetry Contest: Fourth Place

         

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  A Portrait of Winter
D.P. Rosenthal

Her skin’s a porcelain field of polished white,

Her frame a frail and gaunt but regal mien.

‘Neath silver brows shine ice beads twinkling bright

And cold thin lips which glist’n a frosted sheen. 

Her hair cascades in streams of moonbeam cold,

Adornèd with a crown of crystal flakes.

Her face is lined by Time in furrowed folds,

Though beauty lingers yet which age ne’er takes.

She walks a dim and winding path alone,

While all around her lies in dormant rest.

Her countenance grave, a somber mask of stone,

She sets her eyes on her long journey west.

No youth of spring, nor summer warmth remain,

But calm repose until she rise again.

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