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*1st Place* Quarantine Poems Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Julie Leigh Rodeheaver, 2020. In 2022, it was published in PS: It's Still Poetry

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Couplet-19

Two metres apart
Is where we start
Then self-isolate
Before it’s too late
Wash your hands
Else virus expands
Using PPE
Helps safety
Society shut
We all stay put
Food shops empty
Used to be plenty
No supermarket trawl
Just Internet haul
But what of the old
Whose lives now unfold
There’s no face-to-face
Now virtual place
We laugh, we sing, we joke
Keeps spirits up for us folk
Videos to see
WhatsApp glee
Woman’s sneeze
Toddler flees
Toilet roll
Not cash he stole
Human environmental attack
Pandemic weapon – nature fights back
World at war
Like never before
So many go that extra mile
Never happened for such a long while
Good things can come out of so much pain
Self-centred actions we all must refrain
Once over it’s time to rethink
As humanity steps back from the brink
Wake up call
For us all

healthwarworldcouplet

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