Cameo on Winter

A Cameo poem about Winter. Written for the A Poem A Day Contest.

 
 

 
 
 

Cameo on Winter

Winter.
Nature seems asleep.
Weeds have vanished, barren branches,
Cold and dark.
Yet, I feel fresh and elated,
For Winter's sleep promises
New life.

 
 
 
For this contest the Cameo had to be a single stanza non-rhyming poem with a fixed syllable-count: respectively 2, 5, 8, 3, 8, 7 and 2 syllables per line.
 
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