Haiku for the longest day of the year
Think on this long day
of a river streaming bold
forgetting hurdles
as dark fades early
on year’s longest summer day
even if sun fails
to announce the start
of another song cycle,
the second half year
whether longest night
down south, or longest day here
this midyear solstice.
What stories remain
from daydreams of yesterday
or old dreams last night
as midsummer gives
cheerfulness to the dancing
hope as sun rises
streaming between stones
breaking through bush canopy
in woods where birds call
waking dull sleepers
announcing there’s time enough
to change the story.
Time to form history
worth remembering, recording
worth telling anew
on another
long
day, in the
next hemisphere
new ways of
being
new models for growth
where people and planet share
the same space in life
decades worth counting
each solstice recording
decision for change.
So, the longest day
in one sphere. confirms enough
to war’s pollution
while the
longest night
in another,
rejects constant
mining
emptiness,
wake up this morning
after the long night or short,
greet day with a song
a tune new or old
with a lilt to lift spirits
on this special day.
Greet today’s stranger
seek an answer in return
if day remains short
for life
has it
that one
celebrates long day
while the
twin sees short
days which we name here
having other titles far
beyond our vision.
Why not seek agreement
on land’s space and usefulness,
our environment
calling
agreement
the way
forward for all, with
long, firm
solutions.
Adele Ogiér Jones - The poetry of Adele Ogiér Jones is published in journals and anthologies. As well as chapbooks, she has five full collections of poetry, the latest Following Rivers in Trees (Ginninderra Press, 2022). Poems in tanka form appear in Poetry for the Planet (Litoria Press, 2021). Here, for Lothlorien Poetry Journal, she presents haiku for the 2023 summer solstice.
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