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# The Winter Solstice
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/the-winter-solstice/
- Published: 2021-12-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-12-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: It's here at last! The future swings into the past The night shall rule no more. The pendulum, its score reverses -- the day still nurses but soon will reign supreme -- now, summer's bane will do its worst, the fury...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

It's here at last! The future swings into the past  
The night shall rule no more. The pendulum,  
its score reverses -- the day still nurses but soon  
will reign supreme -- now, summer's bane will do its worst,  
the fury of a woman scorned, cold, frozen tears as the  
celestial gears rotate, love turns to hate and diaries left  
behind, then new ones, the same kind, arrive as gifts  
under the living, dying tree, and outside, the snow drifts

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**Author notes:** https://allpoetry.com/contest/2795589-Winter-solstice-