<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Life, the Obstacle Course]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[taurusingemini]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com/author/taurusingemini/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[In Front of a Frozen Window, a&nbsp;Poem]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">This, is still NOT my photograph here&#8230;</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;">Translated…</p>
<p><em>Three sharpened black dots</em></p>
<p><em>Like arrows</em></p>
<p><em>Shooting through</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The white wintry morning</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>They were three crows</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Taken flight from the tips of the branches </em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Like the magical shadows taking flight</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Landed, on my neighbors’ rooftop</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>The eyes that woke from the winter’s slumbers</em></p>
<p><em>Stared, without blinking at</em></p>
<p><em>This temporary stage that was set up</em></p>
<p><em>Wanted to see how the magician called spring</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Is going to be able to use her hands to</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Pick up these few black dots</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Lifting them up, shaking gently</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>And turn this hillside </em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Into the varied shades of reds, yellows, greens and purples</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">So this, is as spring is coming in, and the poet is by the window, watching the changes in the world, how the living organisms that were originally fast in their slumbers in winter time is slowly waking up, and how those flowers that were originally withered away are now, coming into bloom, it must be amazing, to be able to see the changes of the seasons from one’s own window.</p>
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