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A Pendle Winter Solstice

Local poet Nicola Hester welcomes in the shortest day of the year

Nicola Hester 
December 16, 2024

Light melts

Too early in the day.

Cool, crisp – the hills fade

As night settles – lays.

Darkness drenches

A silenced skyline

Where stars sing and the moon hums

Until tomorrow

Where light returns new

Fresh – a little while longer.

Image - Windmills on Long Causeway. Peter McHallam