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Winter’s heart opens
Frosting the world with magic
A delicate touch
Boughs limned in pristine beauty
Accepting the gift of light
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The photo for this week’s prompt was taken in the woods at Ashridge last winter.
It was the most perfect morning… utterly magical… and I couldn’t resist taking my son and the camera out to play.
We followed the same route we had taken on a previous trip to see the bluebells is spring… a day when Nick, who cannot walk, had danced on the hilltops. Another magical day.
This time though, although the landscape was almost Narnian, the Lion was hidden beneath a blanket of snow.
Whipsnade Lion
Thank you so much to everyone who took part this week and to everyone who reblogged the prompt, round up and the individual responses! A new prompt will be published later today. As always, I will reblog as many contributions as space and time allows as they come in… and all of them will be featured in the round-up next Thursday.
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Come and join in!
Many thanks to this week’s contributors:
Jan Malique at Strange Goings on in the Shed
Phillip Knight Scott at Reverie in Reverse
Bobby Fairfield at When the pen takes control
Jen Goldie at Starlight and Moonbeams
Daisybala at freshdaisiesdotme
Christine Bolton at Poetry for Healing
Kerfe Roig at K- Lines that Aim to Be
Laura Denise at Light in the Lens
Deborah at A Wise Woman’s Journey
Rebecca Cutler at Beckie’s Mental Mess
Anita from Anita Dawes and Jaye Marie
Roberta Eaton at Roberta Writes
Trent P. McDonald at Trent’s World
Luccia Gray at Re-reading Jane Eyre
Fandango at This, That and the Other
Taylor Grace from The Broken Inside of Me in the comments
Teresa Smeigh at Tessa can do it
Leanne Lieu at Read and Write Here
Goff James at Art, Photography and Poetry
Alethea Kehas at The Light Behind the Story
Honoré Dupuis at Of Glass and Paper
Anjali Sharma at Positive Side Of The Coin
Leena from Soul Connection with a response to a previous prompt
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
A beautiful poem!
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Thank you, Sadje.
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A pleasure Sue.
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Thank you so much, Sue. 😇😇
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🙂
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Lovely poem, Sue. The image was just gorgeous and elicited beautiful responses. I have a few yet to read. :-).
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There were some stunners this week 🙂
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Lovely
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Thank you.
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thanks Sue. Love the Lion!
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It is a huge chalk-cut figure on Dunstable Downs, just below Whipsnade wildlife park.
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I’m only familiar with the Cerne Abbas Giant and the white stallion on the way to Dorchester. There is another white horse somewhere, but I can’t remember.
The lion is beautiful.
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There are several White Horses, including the ancient one at Uffington, as well as the Long Man at Wilmington…but the lion is relatively new, being cut in 1933.
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A mere ‘cub’ then compared to the others!
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Absolutely 🙂
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I do like your lovely poem, Sue.
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Thank you, Robbie.
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I love your poem Sue, well done everyone. 💜
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Thanks, Willow ❤
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