Although it feels like I’m cheating just posting a single haiku, of all the remaining unpublished poems from my 2019 The Guardian Photo of the Day collection, this one keeps calling for my attention. I’ve posted other poems that tackle the concept of hope, like Lisel Mueller’s Hope, and recommended many others, such as Dickinson’s “Hope” is the thing with feathers. But this image of a migrant swimming towards a retreating ship needed no more than a haiku to express the essence of what this photographer captured.
Migrant Hope (A Haiku)
by Vincent H. Anastasi 2019 The longest swim is trying to catch up with hope motoring away.
the deepening ground 
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