Winter Wonders

Ice crystals sparkle
A world of whiteness awaits
Night invades the day

Enlighten

The numbers expand
When light sparks behind the eyes
Experience glows

Spring Visions

Skies cry forever
Flowers burst forth on fuchsia
Limbs explode in leaves

Searching

We’re hatchlings no more
Wings flare into the unknown
Stretching toward the stars

Summer Exploration

Sizzling on beaches
Tromping through wooded mountains
Struggling to find sense                                                                                                                      

Autumn of Life

Wrinkles grant knowledge
To be shared among humans
Hope clings to the air

Fall Fever

Apple pies devoured
Pumpkins grimace from porches
Trees blaze in crimson

A dreamer since birth, Victoria Marie Lees doesn’t do anything the easy way. To explore nature, she camps with her husband and their five children in the mountains, forests, deserts, on beaches by lakes and oceans. She’s done this for over 20 years, sharing their many adventures and misadventures online at Camping with Five Kids https://www.victoriamarielees.com/. She also began a college journey while raising those five children, a journey which started at a community college and led to an Ivy League scholarship to attend the University of Pennsylvania.

Victoria publishes middle grade fiction and non-fiction in national magazines and has personal essays included in the anthology Easy to Love But Hard to Raise, about raising special needs children, and the Chicken Soup for the Soul edition Mom Knows Best. She writes Parenting essays for Business Insider. She’s won second place in one poetry contest, as well as semi-finalist and finalist status in other poetry contests. Victoria leads writing workshops at local libraries and conferences and at nursing homes in the Pocono Pennsylvania area.

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