Hidden Sounds of Nature

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White, fresh snowfall

Its arrival, highly anticipated

presents a silence

All is absorbed

All sounds trapped in all this snow

The fluff, the layers

have made it

All quiet

All slow

Eventually

It is no longer the flutter of snow

that I hear

Emerge

The flutter of wings

Bird songs

Birds sing

Come

It is the arrival of spring

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Bianca Isabelle M. Cruz

Bianca Isabelle M. Cruz is an artist, harpist and poet. By living in different parts of the world, she uses the world as her inspiration, with the Philippines as her muse. Drawn by the beauty, she finds brilliance from the little moments in life, nature present in her surroundings and lots of love around her. She is currently based in New York City and is studying at the Art Students League.

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