#SeasonalSonnets: 29th Dec.

Hello my lovely readers!

Tonight's #SeasonalSonnets entry hails my beloved Hampstead Heath, which has not yet been graced with a sonnet in this series. It was specifically inspired by a video of my two dear dogs on a walk this morning, which I've included below. I wasn't actually with them on the walk (it was rather chilly due to the frost) but it's such a joy to watch them and I was immediately transported to the greenery that we're lucky enough to have just across the road.

I hope you enjoy both the poem and the video.

29^th December

Tonight my topic’s dear old Hampstead Heath

and the joy I get through living opposite –

for I can count on it to give relief

when feeling my ‘fresh air reserve’s in deficit.

For even if I cannot get outside

(whether because of work or of my body)

I can gaze across the road and, in thought, glide

o’er its great expanse so very boldly.

It’s best, of course, when I am with my dogs

as then I can observe them whilst they race

(through bushes, briars and over fallen logs)

and feel the winter wind upon my face.

Then I can better picture in my mind

myself doing things of just such a kind.