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Hello Creators,

The year closes, the room dims, and we light a small lamp for winter words. 
If you're feeling stressed out and run down by the craziness of the holiday season, then let this collection of poetry take you back to some gentle simplicity.

We start with Emily Brontë’s bleak resolve, a speaker held by storm and choosing stillness. 
Robert Frost follows with the most famous pause in American poetry, where lovely, dark woods meet the tug of promises and the miles ahead. Shakespeare turns the key toward human weather, arguing that the winter wind is kinder than ingratitude, while a jolly refrain keeps spirits up without denying the sting. 
Thomas Hardy brings frost’s spectre and a world run thin, then a thrush that threads hope through the grey; Kathleen Jamie answers with a river bird whose unowned song reminds us that moments of grace visit, not obey.

Sylvia Plath writes winter as text—jays inscribe, squirrels blot, birches tell—until dawn erases the page. 
Miguel de Unamuno closes with snowfall that falls like forgetting and stays like comfort, a white coverlet for heavy ground and restless minds. 

If a line stays with you, share it with a friend and send it our way. 
Follow us for the next season of readings and reflections, leave a review so others can find this corner, and tell us: which winter poem carries you forward?

Sweet dreams,

Florence x

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Sleepless Creatives is hosted by Florence St Leger, and produced by Canary Studios.
The opening theme is Reflection by Birds of Norway.