Well, now we're in 2020, which means Seasonal Sonnets is over - but my poem a day project continues. Although I won't be posting them every day, it just so happens that the year has begun on a Wednesday. I thought I'd mark that by publishing my poem for today, and returning to the old custom of Wordy and Wheely Wednesdays. It's a haiku (as I imagine quite a few of my verses this year will be) and it's for hope. It's inspired by the fact that I'm starting the year in SA, and what that means.
I know moments like this can be filled with complex emotions - they certainly are for me, which is why I couldn't quite manage to do a decade, or even year, in review post. But hope is something I try to keep hold of, and I think it's needed right now.
So, here is my haiku, along with love and spoons, and of course solidarity, as we trundle through the start of this new year together. I dedicate it to my dearest Gramma, whose birthday is today, and who has taught me a lot about hope throughout my life - and also to my friend Hope, who has a birthday too and is a political powerhouse. It's accompanied by a light drawing I did. This one, on a black surface, is a kaleidoscopic pattern of entwined purple and turquoise. There are crisscrossed lines in each colour in the background and in the foreground the pattern creates something similar to a rose or (perhaps contrastingly) a snowflake. For me it's an image of growth and newness, but also how perspective can create different responses to the same situation. I hope it evokes something similar for you, and I wish you the best for your year.
Jx
01/01/2020
01/01/2020
Hope is in my heart,
subtle but steady, as this
year starts in summer
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