Solstice Song
When it’s freezing in the morning and I can’t get out of bed,
when I should be getting up, but I snuggle down, instead,
so far beneath my duvet that you cannot see my head,
as I feel that somewhere cosy is the place where I belong,
it means the days are getting shorter and the nights are getting long.
I catch lots of horrid illnesses (both viral and bacterial!),
I wear my warm pyjamas which are made of thick material,
eat porridge for my breakfast, not a colder type of cereal.
Already dark by teatime, it feels so very wrong,
when the days are getting shorter and the nights are getting long.
Though the pavements are so icy, I fall over with a THWACK,
though the sky outside my window’s a depressing shade of black,
and the sun has gone away, he will eventually come back:
though the rain is getting heavier, the winds are really strong,
soon the nights will get much shorter and the days will get more long.
when I should be getting up, but I snuggle down, instead,
so far beneath my duvet that you cannot see my head,
as I feel that somewhere cosy is the place where I belong,
it means the days are getting shorter and the nights are getting long.
I catch lots of horrid illnesses (both viral and bacterial!),
I wear my warm pyjamas which are made of thick material,
eat porridge for my breakfast, not a colder type of cereal.
Already dark by teatime, it feels so very wrong,
when the days are getting shorter and the nights are getting long.
Though the pavements are so icy, I fall over with a THWACK,
though the sky outside my window’s a depressing shade of black,
and the sun has gone away, he will eventually come back:
though the rain is getting heavier, the winds are really strong,
soon the nights will get much shorter and the days will get more long.
This poem is copyright (©) Melanie Branton 2025

About the Writer
Melanie Branton
Melanie is a spoken word artist from Bristol. Her children’s poems have been published in The Caterpillar and The Head That Wears a Crown (Emma Press, 2018) and commended in the York Mix Competition. She also has three published collections of poetry for adults and is currently touring a show telling the history of the English language through the media of silly hats, performance poetry and dad jokes.