Poems About a Pandemic Seeking Honest Critique
#pandemic
Post Pandemic
We’ll sit in the park
In the dark
Laugh a lot
And drink some shots
We’ll run in the sea
Climb a tree
Have a fight
And hug really tight
We’ll jump up and down
All around town
Throw some ‘taters
And wake up the neighbours
We’ll take lots of drugs
Act like thugs
Make a mess
And eat lots of cress
We’ll have lots of sex
Break our own specs
Troll your mother
And cough on each other
We’ll make lots of noise
Buy sex toys
Swim in a lake
And battle a...
In the dark
Laugh a lot
And drink some shots
We’ll run in the sea
Climb a tree
Have a fight
And hug really tight
We’ll jump up and down
All around town
Throw some ‘taters
And wake up the neighbours
We’ll take lots of drugs
Act like thugs
Make a mess
And eat lots of cress
We’ll have lots of sex
Break our own specs
Troll your mother
And cough on each other
We’ll make lots of noise
Buy sex toys
Swim in a lake
And battle a...
#love
#friendship
#funny
#SelfReflection
#pandemic
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There was a time when all seemed lost ...
Pandemic
Circa 2020
Working from home
Often minimal engagement
Most my customers were shut down
So living on a shoe string
Not much to do
Eventually started to paint again
The job precluded Art
Always on the road
Too tired at night or weekends
But then the pandemic
Suddenly more time than work
Out came the paints and brushes
I call this painting “Time Lost”
In the seemingly lost days
I painted for hours
It was something to do
A big deal day was when I sold one
A trip to the...
Circa 2020
Working from home
Often minimal engagement
Most my customers were shut down
So living on a shoe string
Not much to do
Eventually started to paint again
The job precluded Art
Always on the road
Too tired at night or weekends
But then the pandemic
Suddenly more time than work
Out came the paints and brushes
I call this painting “Time Lost”
In the seemingly lost days
I painted for hours
It was something to do
A big deal day was when I sold one
A trip to the...
#LifeCycle
#art
#pandemic
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You Never Ran from Me
Choose your pleasure
Grasp at straws
Brass rings
Leather corsets
Climbing Everest
Stars a grasp away
Quiet pandemic moments
Hundreds of them
Secrets revealed
Walls came down
Truth and circumstances
You never ran from me
I run towards you
I want to save you
Taste your tears
Hug you so tight
A game to see who releases first
It won't be me
Grasp at straws
Brass rings
Leather corsets
Climbing Everest
Stars a grasp away
Quiet pandemic moments
Hundreds of them
Secrets revealed
Walls came down
Truth and circumstances
You never ran from me
I run towards you
I want to save you
Taste your tears
Hug you so tight
A game to see who releases first
It won't be me
#confessional
#lover
#TruthOfLife
#WritingPoetry
#pandemic
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"V-Injury"
V-Injury"
I could have easily died, that night you nearly died/
There was fear in my eyes, with the tears that I cried
It hurts cause I tried, & made worse cause they lied/
In the world there is a lurgy, like a curse on mankind
So like most of my kind did, you went and got three/
Whilst saying that you didn't, I just could not believe
Then my child did the same, like how could I be mad/
But when the heart attack came, it lit flame like a match
What I felt was so sad, those damn jabs are the devil/
Your mum & dad could have...
I could have easily died, that night you nearly died/
There was fear in my eyes, with the tears that I cried
It hurts cause I tried, & made worse cause they lied/
In the world there is a lurgy, like a curse on mankind
So like most of my kind did, you went and got three/
Whilst saying that you didn't, I just could not believe
Then my child did the same, like how could I be mad/
But when the heart attack came, it lit flame like a match
What I felt was so sad, those damn jabs are the devil/
Your mum & dad could have...
#sadness
#lies
#politics
#WritingPoetry
#pandemic
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What the Poison in the Air Stole from Them
The young lie on the floor, fingers
and marrow fused to phones, they lie there
quieter than the poison in the air
The virus stole nudging in buses,
she fondles the screen of her phone,
limning the boy's eyes as she listens,
her finger is not in range, she knows
he will not see her touching his lips
but hopes he will feel the caress
We must tell them that they will, they will
noisily pull out chairs and seat
themselves around tables of laughter
We must tell them not to worry,
boys will cup...
and marrow fused to phones, they lie there
quieter than the poison in the air
The virus stole nudging in buses,
she fondles the screen of her phone,
limning the boy's eyes as she listens,
her finger is not in range, she knows
he will not see her touching his lips
but hopes he will feel the caress
We must tell them that they will, they will
noisily pull out chairs and seat
themselves around tables of laughter
We must tell them not to worry,
boys will cup...
#love
#loneliness
#teens
#despair
#pandemic
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The cost of Covid
Do not question
here, take the bribe
don’t ask where it came from
sit back enjoy the ride
We’ll blame it on Russia
or those who voted to leave
if the media says so
they decide what you believe
Inflation weaponised
food too expensive to eat
we’ll turn off the gas
if you won’t accept your defeat
There’s jobs if you want them
to pay for a life with no choice
don’t share your opinions
you no longer have a voice
It’s much worse in China ...
here, take the bribe
don’t ask where it came from
sit back enjoy the ride
We’ll blame it on Russia
or those who voted to leave
if the media says so
they decide what you believe
Inflation weaponised
food too expensive to eat
we’ll turn off the gas
if you won’t accept your defeat
There’s jobs if you want them
to pay for a life with no choice
don’t share your opinions
you no longer have a voice
It’s much worse in China ...
#pandemic
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avian flu
read that in the scottish highlands and islands alone birds are dying in their thousands
#pandemic
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MY COVID-19 EXPERIENCE
#TruthOfLife
#honesty
#pandemic
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Cashier Visitation
Why couldn't I condition myself
to a box in which everything
was kindly set for me?
Does the box make you shiver? Does it?
It's set, another wins!
Also, why should I be a friend
of someone, the disgusting!
Pay attention to the baggage.
To the most crowded suitcase of all.
Does the bag make you shiver? Does it?
Everything that is full is not a closet,
The closet, by all accounts, is empty.
Are you upset about how empty it is?
Does it hurt you to see the closet so empty?
I saw the dark instrument of...
to a box in which everything
was kindly set for me?
Does the box make you shiver? Does it?
It's set, another wins!
Also, why should I be a friend
of someone, the disgusting!
Pay attention to the baggage.
To the most crowded suitcase of all.
Does the bag make you shiver? Does it?
Everything that is full is not a closet,
The closet, by all accounts, is empty.
Are you upset about how empty it is?
Does it hurt you to see the closet so empty?
I saw the dark instrument of...
#anger
#war
#LifeStruggles
#LifeCycle
#pandemic
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To Walk on Water
Faith is an act of lying supine,
and motionless, torso yielded,
bare skin cold in a blue and white room
of soft voices tittering about
bare skin recoiling from the idea
of a surgeon with a scalpel in hand.
When a man is carried away against his will,
hands flail and grab whatever are about,
my fingers reach for and wrap around
the door jambs of unsurrendered problems.
I am Isaac, elbows bound, bewildered
by the sight of a dagger overhead
I am...
and motionless, torso yielded,
bare skin cold in a blue and white room
of soft voices tittering about
bare skin recoiling from the idea
of a surgeon with a scalpel in hand.
When a man is carried away against his will,
hands flail and grab whatever are about,
my fingers reach for and wrap around
the door jambs of unsurrendered problems.
I am Isaac, elbows bound, bewildered
by the sight of a dagger overhead
I am...
#faith
#illness
#cancer
#determination
#pandemic
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The Test
i studied
learned the
vocabulary
pondered the concepts
read the popular
and scientific literature
when the symptoms began
i wrote it off
to allergies
then the flu
tried the usual
remedies
rest hydration
decongestants
sunshine meditation
hot toddies
but nothing worked
i felt worse
finally
stuck a swab up my nose
hoping to fail
but passed the test
COVID
finally caught up
now what
...
learned the
vocabulary
pondered the concepts
read the popular
and scientific literature
when the symptoms began
i wrote it off
to allergies
then the flu
tried the usual
remedies
rest hydration
decongestants
sunshine meditation
hot toddies
but nothing worked
i felt worse
finally
stuck a swab up my nose
hoping to fail
but passed the test
COVID
finally caught up
now what
...
#anxiety
#fear
#pandemic
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The 2020 Chip Down Blues
The torture tune of trauma town
Rings in my midnight ear
To say to me when chips are down
All merriment will disappear...
When introverts, not the warrior,
Will be the ones that thrive
When city streets get gorier
As intubations survive...
More so than those who shriek and shout
In a rally or ugly crowd
With an unwitting spittle spout
Ever and anon too proud...
Since salvation comes, as you will see,
Packaged in humility.
Rings in my midnight ear
To say to me when chips are down
All merriment will disappear...
When introverts, not the warrior,
Will be the ones that thrive
When city streets get gorier
As intubations survive...
More so than those who shriek and shout
In a rally or ugly crowd
With an unwitting spittle spout
Ever and anon too proud...
Since salvation comes, as you will see,
Packaged in humility.
#ignorance
#pandemic
#vulnerability
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