When the Clocks Go Back

To anyone who struggles to adapt to the shorter, darker days of autumn. This poem is for you. 

When the Clocks Go Back

As the clocks shorten
The day
You lap up each dreg
Of sun ray

Restless, you suggest
A pub garden?
A walk?
A holiday?

'It's not this sweet, joyful
Change to October
It's drizzling rain, clouds and
Coats and cold and I...
Can't cope'
You fray

We lug ourselves out of
Duvet dens
And lumber up hills

Bending our bodies,
Stretching out
With sunflower stalk suppleness
To the final sunny day

Tomorrow we will wake
To clouds and coats and cold
'But I'll cope'
You say
It will be okay

Header Image Credit: Mylene2401 from Pixabay

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Rosie Doyle

Rosie Doyle Voice Contributor

English and French graduate. I love to read, write and drink tea.

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2 Comments

  • Tom Inniss

    On 19 November 2019, 15:18 Tom Inniss Voice Team commented:

    Hey, thanks for posting on the site. I am 100% someone who struggles with the changing seasons. It's not even 4pm and the sun is already starting to get low here, it's miserable.

    I hope you don't mind but I added an image to the post and have promoted it to the homepage!

  • Rosie Doyle

    On 2 December 2019, 19:52 Rosie Doyle Voice Contributor commented:

    Hi Tom, thank you so much for promoting this to the home page!

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