Seasons of hope and despair

Autumn's embers bonfires nostrils smells

Corner shops fireworks bangers sells

Winter's frosts snowballs hands feels

Coffee shops lattes coldness steels

Spring's birds chirps ears hears

Garden shops seeds omits fears

Summer's glares visors eyes sees

Ice-cream shops ices hotness frees.

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Karen Burns is 49 and lives in Coventry, England. She is a graduate at Warwick after completing a Social Studies degree. Her interests are reading, poetry, writing reviews and she has a blog all about her daughter who has an eating disorder.