Find your way out of December
it’s cold
it’s dark
and it’s grey
it follows right on from November
chasing the autumn away
It leads to one of least favourite
January
that hole
in the year
where nothing is right, dark swallows the light
and adds another age to my years
February, I thole, with its promise
that the
herald of March
will blow in
buffet the cobwebs of winter
soon April will bring again spring
May might still feel like winter
Scotland
not noted
for sun
but I hang on, with hope, in these dark days
that June or July will bring some
Failing the former, the latter,
August
might
give us a break
failing a summer then autumn
September, October, I’ll take
But stuff the months of midwinter
with their birthdays
and dark days
and shit
Bah, humbug to winter’s
crap weather
don’t like it one little bit
Should have been born in the hot lands
or taught
to at least
hibernate
I’d gather in nuts and milk chocolate
a pot of tea and just wait
Till daylight returns to the heartlands
till heart
has thawed
or dried out
any season but winter
hate it without any doubt!
I think I’m part bear.
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Me too. 🙂
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Hibernation is very good!
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I so easily could! 🙂
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Well, as long as you keep writing………. 🙂
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No chance, Nic. Even if I don’t post I’m still writing. 🙂
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Excellent!
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Watch what you wish for momus 🙂
I’ll send some of this golden sunshine over, but beware, we’ve been getting 40C already, and it’s still only the third day of summer…it might make you feel a bit toasty over there 😀
But lets put it this way, we don’t suffer from that Seasonal Affective Disorder (S.A.D. the letters say it perfectly), from lack of light.
Love and light (literally), to brighten your hibernation 🙂
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I feel worse now! 40C! So jealous. Parcel it up or I’m on the next plane. 🙂
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I’m sure you’d get bored of all the sunlight and warmth. Plus we’ve got to have something to moan about!
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Och, there’ll always be plenty to moan about, Chris and I can’t even imagine getting bored by too much sunshine. 🙂
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Haven’t seen it down here for a while, either. Seem to be spending a lot of time wading through puddles mending fences. Literally!
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this would make a nifty addition to the wall calendar in your classrooms
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Hmmm, might need to change one or two words and a picture.
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Winter, bad. Hibernation, good. xo
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Exactly! 🙂 x
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You capture well the myriad facets of the seasons, Anne Marie! They seem to pass as quickly as your words – older = faster= 😦 Oh, well, c’est la vie. Enjoy the holidays – may the brighten the gloom 🙂
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Looking forward to the break. Have a great one! 🙂 x
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Well, I love winter, if we would only have one, but I have to admit January is a bit of a letdown. I hope to sleep the whole month. Great post with your usual brilliant insights, Anne-Marie, expressed so succinctly, not one more thought is needed. xx
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Sleep is definitely on the agenda. I’m wiped! Winter solstice brings a psychological boon for me – just need to see the lighter days appearing. Might need to do a spot of that hibernating till then! Many thanks, as always, Beth, for such positive comments.x
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