Best Quarantines Poems

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You are electron microscopic size, but you possess infinitesimal power. Just a single strand of encapsulated RNA, yet you and your brothers SARS and MERS can sicken and kill more complex life.

Covid-19, virion unseen
Bring humans to their knees
Cowering and trembling

You spring up suddenly from nowhere...

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Pardon skepticism, but it’s true
There’s too much ado about Swine Flu
Thirty-one deaths by May of ‘09
In 25 nations worldwide
 
Avoid all public transportation
And forego annual vacations
Protect us from the dreaded Swine Flu
By closing our schools and churches too
 
The government was slow to react
When HIV...

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When civilization begins to crumble,
it's gonna end with a crash
The sound is gonna be loud:
Big Bang!
Everything
swirling down the toilet drain
The first crashing sound
is the financial markets plummeting to the ground
Those banks are gonna be closed,
no money coming out of those teller windows
You won't have access...

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There’s nothing so fine as a bright April Day
A light breeze blowing through the sycamores
The backyard squirrels have come out to play,
An adventure kind of day I can’t stay indoors.
Chores to be done, but spring fever has struck
The meadow beckons for an afternoon stroll,
Then to...

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There’s a forest bizarre neither nearby nor far,
full of sights somewhat scary to spook a soul wary.
The deep, darkened jungle, I think you’ll agree 
is never a safe place for you or for me...

The vicious antihistamines attack unwary gabardines,
while hungry, snarling mezzanines will slither on...

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Dear October.

In case you haven't heard, I must inform you that
It appears that a 'cloud of evil' has descended upon our world.
I must skip the small talk, because these are critical and trying times.

Spring brought us a deadly disease called COVID 19 and quarantines.
Summer brought...

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Human foot-traffic is flowing along slightly faster than 2020,                                    ...

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Santa looks bleak in twenty twenty
Covid came alive to give plenty
Of grief throughout the year
Parting from Christmas cheer
Sure that quarantines will be many

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The elves were worried about Yuletide
In Mrs. Claus, they were to confide
Rudolph’s nose lost it’s glow
All the reindeer were slow
This virus brought despair...

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The Ball fell into 2020- 
One single drop ending New Year’s celebration
Masses of people gathered together
Was this the last time?
It was Winter – a mild one
That began to run into Spring
Without anyone knowing
The COVID-19 virus came quickly all over the world
People very ill; people dying
Limited...

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Our year Twenty-Twenty arrived,
and as a new decade, revived
pursuits of our hopes for more peace-
divisions and conflicts- decrease.

The first few months quickly slipped past!
But, then Covid horror would last
throughout the whole year- and maintain
to take life away- so insane!

With quarantines, normal was lost;
the whirlwind of...

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The daffodils are cropping up;
They’re sprouting everywhere,
Reacting to the light and warmth – 
Of germs, they just don’t care.

They do not know from quarantines
Or canceled sports events
But proudly wave their yellow heads
With joyous spring intents.

They’re unaware of closing schools
Or empty stores and trains,
Just bobbing in...

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God’s love* quarantines us within His security-braced compassion…
We therefore trust His guidance of omniscient precision.

Knowing that the Lord loves us so without any break…
In this lockdown situation, we can still be spiritually awake. 

Embraced with Christ’s love around gracious fellowship…
We are enclosed in His care...

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I give up in despair
The damage to repair
Second hand theories abound
Seeking to keep me safe and sound

The laws are changing fast
Communal activities now in the past
Quarantines and lockdowns they order
Virtually sealing the border

We must all get infected
Some practices we have rejected
Morphing into copy cats
While waiting...

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'Twas the night before tomorrow
And the morning after that.
Father Time passed by discretely, 
Didn’t even tip his hat.
The calendars of bygone years
Stacked up to nothing much.
The women I’d been cozy with
Keep mostly out of touch.

Can’t measure by semesters
With a stale curriculum. 
Can’t reckon by elections
And...

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I once had a treasured mid-western friend who                                     ...

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