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Spanish Lesson

history repeats learn not to be mistaken pandemic foresight ***

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Jhinuk Mukherjee

Date: 6/4/2020 2:18:00 AM

Such significant and deep insight portrayed in a few words yet so impactful.

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 6/4/2020 3:05:00 PM

Thank you Jhinuk. Welcome to poetry soup! I will check out your page when I have more available brain cells ;). Maureen

Lewis Raynes

Date: 5/22/2020 7:53:00 PM

The numbers in the US are simply taking off, increasing, its baffling how stupid their govt is, i suspect money is an evil alterior motive.

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/22/2020 10:44:00 PM

It's terrifying and dumbfounding. I would be bold enough to say it is the primary motive. Money talks... and talks and talks. It defies logic. I feel pretty confident Canada won't be reopening the border anytime soon.

Timothy Mcguire

Date: 5/10/2020 10:42:00 PM

I remember my grandmother telling me about the Spanish flu when I was a kid. I never dreamed I would live thru none myself

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/11/2020 12:22:00 AM

A lesson forgotten by many without a grandmother's knowledge it seems. My grandmother will be 100 next week. It is a little mind boggling to think of all that she has seen. Keep well my friend, xomo

Gershon Wolf

Date: 5/6/2020 10:59:00 PM

Porfavor - Senora! Muchas gracias para instructiones, Maestra! (Whatever the H I just wrote). lol. ~ gw

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/7/2020 7:38:00 AM

Sounded romantic whatever it was ;), mi amigo ~x

Timothy Hicks

Date: 5/6/2020 8:22:00 PM

None offense taken (if that WAS your intention I actually found it kind of amusing ... people are too sensitive these days methinks). In any case thanks for the explanation. I see it now. (makes much more sense than my garbled interpretation. LOL!) Browsing the comments here: so Spanish Flu didn't come from Spain then? Interesting.

Timothy Hicks

Date: 5/6/2020 7:08:00 PM

Definitely could learn a few things as a result of this worldwide scare ... a greater preparedness, and maybe some added gratefulness for the things we took for granted, and now cherish like precious jewels. It's a good senryu you have here, Maureen. However, I will admit, the connection to your title has me perplexed (is "Spanish lesson" a subtle hint-jab to us Americans who don't often recall what we learned in Spanish class ... and you're relating that to the current state of affairs?)

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/6/2020 7:26:00 PM

Hi Timothy. Oh my goodness, No jabs! The title refers to The Spanish Flu aka the 1918 flu pandemic. Thank you for asking, I hadn't thought of that. I know I can be risqué, but I do really hate to offend.

Anil Deo

Date: 5/6/2020 7:42:00 AM

well spoken, Maureen (my pen is worse than my bite)

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/6/2020 8:34:00 AM

...the more you know me, the better prepared you will be ;),

Anil Deo

Date: 5/6/2020 7:41:00 AM

Spanish Lesson (not the language Foofoo) shalom shalom, Wee spoken, Mo

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/6/2020 8:33:00 AM

Before I wrote this I did not know that it was called the Spanish Flu because of the reporting, NOT where it originated.

Caren Krutsinger

Date: 5/6/2020 6:31:00 AM

No kidding! Get this printed on T-shirts; I want one too!

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/6/2020 8:31:00 AM

You have my explicit permission to use this as you please ~x

Caycay Jennings

Date: 5/5/2020 9:15:00 PM

You and your pen are optimist who probably do learn but sadly most do not and will convert to being regular routine round humans when next their perceived 'normal' returns. Keep on sailing thru positive air though - I'm there, and others as well. Poetry hugs ... CayCay

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/6/2020 8:29:00 AM

Thank you for that Lovely, hugs galore ~xomo <3

Ilene Bauer

Date: 5/5/2020 6:46:00 PM

this packs a perfect punch, maureen and the title is great...

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/5/2020 8:10:00 PM

Thank you Ilene. I'm shaking my head so much, sometimes poems fall out ;),

Rico Leffanta

Date: 5/5/2020 2:35:00 PM

Government appointments to the pandemic department were political rather than due to education, experience, or competence, hence the world-wide fiasco. Some nations, like the USA, are very slow to learn from experience because it is not about saving lives, but saving face! Aloha! Rico

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/5/2020 3:39:00 PM

So sadly true. Meanwhile in Canada we have a Chief Public Health Officer who is a physician with expertise in immunization, infectious disease, emegrgency preparedness & global health security who still gets push back... cuz MONEY rules. Sigh.

Tom Cunningham

Date: 5/5/2020 8:35:00 AM

Pity our leaders didn't look back at history, they might have learned something. Tom

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/5/2020 8:38:00 AM

I can't say that I am disappointed in my government's response; history will tell, as it always does, but I suspect some legacy making. xomo

John Lawless

Date: 5/5/2020 8:29:00 AM

OK...you went a long way back with the title. Nice twist

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/5/2020 8:36:00 AM

Thankya, figured it was an easier credit than science. xomo