winter wonder

image credits:
Paintings from Rokuro.Taniuchi's�@Winter Scenes
www.city.yokosuka.kanagawa.jp/e/muse_e/taniuchi/winter/we_009.html


at the start of winter when is time
for the first frost to come,
when fall is gone and trees are bare
their leaves have mostly fallen to the ground

camelias smile right in the face of frost
and slightly blush but they are proud
and fulll of joy because their buds
will soon bloom in winter's wonderland