Maddi Douglas

Written age 13
Peebles High School, Scottish Borders

The Winter Queen

Snow is falling like frosted lace,

Stars kiss my cheeks with a gentle embrace.

Death creeps stealthily,

Draping his dark cloak on the woods.

There upon the velvet grass

Frosty blankets glint like glass,

Cobwebs shine brightly

With an ethereal glitter.

Water, wind, fire and earth,

Dying with the winter's birth

The haughty Winter Queen rides by

The promise of spring is there in her eye.