Poems for winter days - Resistance & Slumber

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One for winter's storms, one for the long dark nights and hours while the cold reigns outdoors.

Resistance

The winter storms are sweeping past,
The limbs of trees fall to the earth,
They give a cry as they are lashed,
As wind bends even greatest girth.

Hold fast, deep roots, though water fills
And soaks the ground you seek to grasp,
Hold fast, green boughs, lest rending kill
And make this season's green your last.

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Slumber

Deep the nods that call to slumber,
Thick eyes sagging, pulled like lead.
Heavy fingers typing slowly,
How we long to sleep instead!
How the bed gives forth its whispers,
Voiced as sirens of Grecian deeps,
Wrapping me in gauzy tendrils,
Sleep! it's calling, Come to sleep!
Words are blurring and misspelling,
In vain I bat Sandman away,
Night is failing and I'm falling
Past dark hours into day.

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