Winter Nights are made for Loving

It's hibernation time. 

Get close and cuddle up

to keep yourselves warm. 

A hug can do wonders

To boost your defences

Against the germs

In the Winter air

Put on an extra jumper

And stamp your feet

Kiss like an eskimo

Drink lots of tea

Lemon juice and honey

Ginger and turmeric

It's all good for you.

That's my Winter Rap song or Wrap song- ha ha!

My poem for the day was written over five hundred years ago and extolls the delights of being indoors with someone you love on a dark Winter night.

Winter Nights 

Now winter nights enlarge

The number of their hours,

And clouds their storms discharge

Upon the airy towers.

Let now the chimneys blaze,

And cups o'erflow with wine;

Let well-tuned words amaze

With harmony divine.

Now yellow waxen lights

Shall wait on honey Love,

While youthful revels, masks, and courtly sights

Sleep's leaden spells remove.

This time doth well dispense

With lovers' long discourse.

Much speech hath some defence

Though beauty no remorse.

All do not all things well;

Some measures comely tread,

Some knotted riddles tell,

Some poems smoothly read.

The Summer hath his joys,

And Winter his delights.

Though Love and all his pleasures are but toys,

They shorten tedious nights.

Thomas Campion ( 1567-1620)