The Poetry Class: Eternity in an Hour | Relaxing Sleep Story

Night Falls: Bedtime Story, Sleep Story, Sleep Podcast

Sleepiest: Bedtime Story, Sleep Story, Sleep Podcast

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Fiction

4.5 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Feel anxious at bedtime? Join Geoffrey by the fireside for a relaxing story, and fall asleep easily. Tonight's tale is about the wandering thoughts of a man in a poetry class, which take us through his memories, steered by the poetry of William Blake. Love Night Falls? 😊 Join Night Falls Premium on Apple Podcasts or via https://nightfalls.supercast.com/ for a rich, immersive and totally ad-free experience 🌙 Please follow and leave us a review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ How are we doing with Night Falls? Let us know 🙌 You can now listen to Night Falls on Youtube! Enjoy the latest episodes with relaxing visuals 📺 About Night Falls 🌕🦌 The Night Falls podcast has been created to gently guide you to sleep with meditation and soothing bedtime stories. Join your host, Geoffrey Austin Newland, every Sunday and Tuesday in the mystical Night Falls, where the air tingles with magic as whispers of stories drift on the breeze along with the embers of the crackling campfire. We will begin each episode with a short meditation, before Geoffrey recounts his adventures in Night Falls, or tells a peaceful bedtime story you may recognise. Visit😴👉 https://ozlosleep.com/sleepiest to save on your first pair of Ozlo Sleepbuds! 🌙 This episode is sponsored by Rula. Rula patients typically pay $15 per session when using insurance. Connect with quality therapists and mental health experts who specialize in you at https://www.rula.com/nightfalls! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Jeffrey here. Welcome back to Night Falls, the Sleep podcast guaranteed to have you drift off fast.
0:29.2	Have you ever thought of a memory as a portal to time travel? A secret door you can step through, carrying nothing but your imagination.
0:40.7	I often do this by visiting the hotel in Scotland where I grew up.
0:46.8	Why not close your eyes and travel there with me?
0:51.6	The mosaic tiles greeting your feet at the front door, each piece worn and whispering
0:58.7	stories of arrivals and farewells. Look up at the Victorian glass etched with an angel. See
1:08.2	how it catches the light just so and invites you inside.
1:14.6	My hand still remembers the feel of the banister as I dashed and wound my way up the stairs,
1:21.2	my heart racing, not from the climb, but from the anticipation of what might await in the attic above.
1:29.3	It was always just a touch too dark and deliciously creepy up there,
1:35.3	perfect for a young imagination.
1:38.3	Well, tonight we're not walking into my memories, but those of a man in a poetry class who's inspired to wonder
1:46.7	through his memories, steered by a phrase or stanza, written tens, or hundreds of years before.
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