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Winter Melodies Poets Unite Worldwide

"POETRY FOR THE WINTER..". The poems in this compilation have moved me in different ways. Sometimes it is just a line, sometimes a flash of humor and others where the whole poem affects me deeply. Such a poem is written by Kenneth Maswabi, dealing with the terror inflicted upon the homeless during the Winter months. Another poem, "Mount Fuji," by its precision conjures up a Japanese landscape and ends with it is an image full of charm: "At the shrine, white papers flutter / In the wistful winter wind." In other poems humorous and fun aspects of Winter are covered in lines such as: "Winter is the season of the year that you sneeze and freeze" or "warm snowballs make friendly darts." Sometimes a poet poses an intelligent question (is winter) "a beginning or an end.. "