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Flowers of winter


The flowers of summer

the rose and honeysuckle

are fearless flowers that

survive by seduction

or their fairytale barrier of thorns

others have brave hearts 

of crystalline purity

but the Winter kings ice and hail

shatters them to broken petals

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