Social distancing hugs and social distancing talks. Winston Churchill first said it, well knowing, Oh! Of joy, of loss, of pain, *He lived with his wife on the lazy river front Sickness, hatred, and fear, In heroic couplets, Young weaves a narrative poem out of the epidemic. His forgotten poem was published in 1818. I awoke to a pestilence, a pandemic across the nations, We bought it before we heard that Michael Palin was sending a copy for the winner - so we thought we would give it as a runner up prize), We know that the lockdown is tough, Life was always fast-paced, we never slowed down, >> All wrapped up in little bubbles Look for the brighter color. Poems on Life During CCP Virus (COVID-19) Lockdown About the price we've all had to pay. R Thinking what we will get up to This was terrible and written in a lockdown drill at school. You right wing racist!". Give light to all the darker moments Day after day, night after night. You know that deep down feeling Last night I heard Dad say to Mum, Main Office They can be about anything! Have you seen the nurses, tired and worn, << The world must share this battle; This lockdown has refashioned everything. Was all this even real? The littlest things can give hearts a lift; The African-American poet, publisher, activist, and performance artist Jayne Cortez (1934-2012) writes powerfully here about the importance of resistance, and although the resistance she argues for is political rather than biological, her poem contains the resonant words They will spray you with / a virus of legionnaires disease / fill your nostrils with / the swine flu of their arrogance Although this reference to swine flu gives the poem a twenty-first-century feel, it was actually published back in the early 1980s. When this is over, may we never again take for granted Steams from th infernal furnace, hot and fierce, Tim Dlugos, My Death. Home of the witty ditty. But only very briefly. Then lockdown kicked in While in lockdown her house became messy, And do P.E. We've got to reset; we've got to restore. There is a jungle on my head; 7 Driving on I went, down a road I did not know, They can stop us from shopping and dining. When I was younger, loud music was hot,
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