Best Quarantine Poems

-Quarantine of the Soul-


Tranquil pills fall deep like the night
A sweet fangless course
Bites with no remorse
Your eyes struggle to read my ageless soul
Lost 
Dark
You open a heart under Quarantine 
The past
The present
The future
Stand in the way of what was and never will be
A contagious disease
I...

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A significantly different day
                 No bread or milk
empty for toilet paper
Reduced opening hours in grocery stores
-  Home insulation with
   respiratory infection
Rationing on medicines
School closes -
no leisure...

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Under quarantine, I am asked, along with many other people,
to stay inside my house -
except if I should go out for necessity’s sake.
I have no quarrel with this.
In fact, I count myself fortunate that I am not required
to drive a semi like my husband, who...

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All is quiet, my corner still safe.
Ten more pounds, I’m beginning to chafe.
I’ve chewed the couch and the lazy boy chair.
I look like a hippy with all of this hair.

Civilization does need to return.
The dogs want me gone as my stomach swells and churns.
A fresh...

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Here and there I saw the fear 
People running & saying it clear 
Corona here, corona there
Some ran for needs
Some ran for greeds
Some were worried about all their deeds 
It took me back in a reverse gear 
It took me back to Kashmir my dear...

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Forty days and forty nights in lock down

	Breathless for inhaling my own air ad infinitum

		Could be worse if I was left out to dry in the desert


Isolation in my own four walls in solitude

	Puffing and panting from the magic scented flacon
 
		Fragrant innocence of lost...

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At first, the view from my window looks bare;
abandoned streets and empty parking lots.
Yet things I hadn't before now, noticed there,
entice my muse and captivate my thoughts.

A pigeon lands on my balcony rail;
its iridescent feathers inked with light.
And as though this virus lifted a veil;
suddenly,...

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What’s all this
Nonsense
Inch tapes out
Everyone measuring distance
They call it
‘Social distancing’
Never heard
Of any such thing
After all
Man is gregarious 
He, she and us
Add to it
That one more bit 
About ‘Self isolation’
Living all alone
Not a soul around, 
Absolutely none
But wait
This we’ve
Already been practising 
Bringing into our lives
The much...

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Demography,
Geography,
Gender.
Age.

Curb,
Obtain,
Courtship.
Parenthood.

The shape of life is staired,
Either irregularly paired,
or regularly squared.
We find shame in familiar places,
Stamp fame over unventured traces.

Bond to fulfill culture.
Pendulum swings affirming the law of nature.
Sowing coincides with reap.

As man toils to control sanity,mortality leaps.
For restricting malevolent norms unleashes explosive neferity.
Asleep or awake...

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There's nothing to do on lockdown
Can't even go outside to see the sun
Staring at the walls
Waiting on the government call
Hoping that our town doesn't get rundown...

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Piles of books in the corner
An endless list of
Films and shows
To binge watch
Too much time on our hands
Slowly flows
Into the next day
And goes on repeat
And here we go
Into the next day
And again
And again
Waking up
Hoping for something new
A sliver of something
To look forward to the next...

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I feel almost cut off from the rest of the world,

Trapped,

In my city, in my home, in my mind.

I can feel the time slipping away along  with my sanity as I cling to a semblance of normality. 

Only 3 days in with 33 to...

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That day I wake up with more questions
Which can’t answer by anyone
I was looking very confused, even I tried to hide my feelings
Over information is also a problem now
Where will I go and hide from these
Who is telling truth and who is telling lies?
I am...

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The horses of life are halted
Something, most certainly, world has never wanted

Humans are locked inside their houses
They are forced to give time to their spouses

Schools closed, Factories shut, ban on outings, and open markets 
This version of life has surely been long disregarded

Beaches are taking...

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Do stop your moaning, for Heaven's Sake!
You're not the first to bellyache!
You can scowl, growl, or howl
Or throw in the towel
But no one can go to your Wake!...

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