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Title: Winter
Author: Lisa Lazzell
Date Submitted: 8/19/2013
Email: shelbylee4@yahoo.com

 
Poem: As winter approaches
Why is it that I stand alone in the knowledge of the meaning of the bare lifeless trees, the stoic wind, and the silence that hovers in the brisk air?

Why is it I don''t see you standing there so close, out of my reach, while you try to convey words that are swept away in the uncaring wind?

Why is it that instead of turning towards home, I walk on in the direction of where I''ve been before, where I need to go, the winter moving in, cutting my skin as I travel on?...