29 Dec Poets’ Corner: Rosemerry for New Year’s Eve!
New Year’s Eve is the final day of the Gregorian calendar year—December 31, a threshold moment when one year gives way to the next. Culturally, it is a night charged with endings and beginnings: reflection, release, and renewal.
On the subject of the last Big Event of the holiday trifecta, Shakespeare took the high road: “Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.”
Riffing off The Bard’s good will, now is the accepted time to make annual resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them per usual – or not. You could resolve not to resolve. Witness Word Woman Rosemerry Trommer words below.
Unresolution
Because after all these years
of focusing on the goal as if
happiness is a thing I attain
or a place I might finally reach,
now I thrill when I see through
the myth of arrivals.
I see where I have grasped
and clutched and clawed
and scrabbled to be somewhere
not where I am. Not that I regret it.
The memory of grabbing
helps me feel how beautiful it is
each time the hand opens
like a morning to what is here,
opens as if the opening itself
is what I am here to do.
Rosemerry, more:
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, credit; Joanie Schwarz.
Daily poetry blog: A Hundred Falling Veils <https://ahundredfallingveils.com/>
Daily poetry app for your phone: The Poetic Path <https://app.ritual.io/rosemerry>
Podcast on creative process: Emerging Form <https://emergingform.substack.com/>
Newest Books: The Unfolding <https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-unfolding-rosemerry-wahtola-trommer/21735297?ean=9781961741164>,
All the Honey <https://bookshop.org/p/books/all-the-honey-rosemerry-wahtola-trommer/18666020>
TEDx: The Art of Changing Metaphors <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXC3-ZFkhDo>
Poetry album Risking Love <https://rosemerrywahtolatrommer.bandcamp.com/album/risking-love>
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