Long Pandemic Poems

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Premium Member Response To Those Unwilling To Get a Vaccine

My response is diverse, because no two reasons are the same.
Some come from a king, and some from a dame.
Some are allergic, asthmatic, or worse.
I do not live in their body, do not carry their purse.

Their reasons live in apartments above their brain shelf.
They are drinking bourbon, and chasing a green house elf.
Their reasons are giggling and laughing with glee.
Chasing science around the corner, farther than I can see.

I hear excuses, and I wonder which ones are legit.
I’d like them all to be vaccinated, but I do not have a fit.
I do not try to convince them, because they know their own heart.
To listen to each other, is truly an incredible start.

Some try to convince me, thinking there is only their way.
When they do this, I recognize there is no reason to stay.
Their reasons hang on to their shoulders and shake a finger at me.
I run away as fast as I can, saying I am called away suddenly.

My response to one person might be an opposite response to another.
The reasons may vary completely from my father and mother.
I listen and learn, and try to be open minded and kind, 
because the pandemic might kill them so it may be my last time.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Silent City

Under the gloomy sky, anybody pass by
The overcast cloud hid the first light
Last night rain left the damp tan lawn
Bare trees remain in the dormant dawn
 
The wild doves unusually stay silent
The chickadees calmly leap on branch 
While sparrows pick fresh buds on canes
Do they fear the earthquake shocks again?
 
On the walkway, the California quails stroll
They replace the morning student’s role
While boys and girls stay safe at home
With their family, tune in the news to roam
 
Follow up the Covid-19 pandemic numbers
The death tolls from the Earth’s corners
Or maybe it’s the end of our humankind?
Is there a process this virus can be confined?
Form: Verse

Premium Member We Shall Meet Again

My dearest love, Judy dear
I’m thinking of you and us
It was happiness year after year
All too soon those years have passed
We did recognize each other
From the very beginning though we
Were afraid to hurry up further
For about a year or three 
In the 2020, the pandemic year 
Was it in June, or in May?  
You told me I love you and I said my dear
I love you too – since that day
We were close together, my darling
Every bird on your fence sang for us
Our evenings, nights and mornings
Flickered by so extremely fast 
Little did we know, my sweetheart
It’s a year ago today 
Your passing set us apart
Now your lovely ecards I play
Reading your words, full of love
I know we shall meet again
Can’t say when, but there’ll be sun above
Later that day there’ll be rain..
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Inhumane Pandemics

Global pandemics,
like egocentric panics,
present a crisis
of EarthSystemic preventive health care

Revolting against
overpowering economic extraction,
overwhelming weapons against EarthTribe habitats
preserving resilient human green capital reinvestment
in self-disciplined scales of reproducing
voluntary overpopulation degeneration
to extend anthro survival time
to embrace EarthTrival win/win space

Committed to local green communal needs
ecologically enlightened
and economic Whole GreenBlue Earth empowering
long-term resilient win/win viral passions
for restoring EarthJustice,
Green multiculturally cooperative Peace

Gospel messages
advocating Beatitude tools,
not bad attitude weapons
orthodoxically leftbrain aimed
to punish everyday ignorant sinners

Pandemically conspiring to kill,
or at least deeply wound,
green polycultural health seasons
of ego/eco-systemic bicameral wealth

Of positively viral insight:
To lose StraightWhite patriarchal
leftbrain treasons against bicameral mental health
to continue embracing fundamentalism's win/lose
monetized salvation 
through competitive self-redeeming egocentricities,
is like winning a short-term 
yet chronically stressful battle
to lose our long-term leftbrain dominant war

Against compassionate 
winLeft/winRight interdependent contagion
of and for
even more 
ego/eco-politically green health
polycultural outcomes 
co-investing in viral wealth communication.

Premium Member I Am Chained To the Tv

I am chained to my TV set by way of recliner
Planning daily to break the chain 
Or at least bend it a bit
But until the fires and the floods come
Here I sit 
Doing none of the things
That bring me joy
Holding a remote in my hand
A remote that is controlling me
Has taken over my mind
Is telling me what to do and when to do it
I am ready for a flood
Or a fire
Or anything 
To shake me up
And break me up
And get me to the church on time
Or get me to the restaurant where I could meet friends
This pandemic has me glued to CNN
Where the numbers keep going up.
Ninety-eight thousand and sixty-eight Americans have died so far
Of the Coronavirus or something else?
I am chained to the TV
Yet I do not even believe in it.
I am broken, shaken, messed up.
I am going to have to BE the fire and the flood
But not right now.
Right now 
The remote is in my hand
And I am not afraid to use it.


What Is Your Priority

"Pandemic gave many lessons. How many did we learn?"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Running after money ~ not bothering about health and joy

Trying to reach the top ~ not bothering about living joyously

Spending all on satisfaction of senses ~  not saving for future

Hooked on to electronic devices ~ not spending time with loved ones

Bothering more about appearance ~ forgetting inner beauty

Copying others ~ no clue where we are headed

Knowing life is transient ~ living as if we are eternal

We need to reset our life ~  our priorities

03.07.2021
	
Submitted to	Global reset, Joe Maverick

Syllables count checked at PS syllables counter

Rank 6th
Form: Monoku

Santa Postponed Christmas

This Christmas season is much too bleak
The pandemic is sending it up the creek
because the elves are sick with Carona Virus
A situation that's far from being desirous
and getting worse with every passing week

Even the reindeer are wearing a sad frown
There won't be enough toys to go all around
and now Santa is infected with the Covid germ
Mrs. Claus is so worried, she's started to squirm
The world is tensed on the edge of a lockdown

I heard Santa talking to the North Pole Mayor
hoping to postpone the holiday everywhere
How will parents soothe children when they see
that no presents were left beneath the tree?
"The Grinch stole Christmas, and that's not fair!"
Form: Rhyme

A Pandemic Dream

Last night in my dream the red-eye monster was canvassing the neighborhood, followed me through the eerily quiet streets to my home, and set foot on the patio below my window through which I could see its thorn crown.
I woke up trembling and then, an hour later, it revisited this time
inside the kitchen, feasting on homemade cookies until
it was my shriek of fear that grabbed its attention 
and it stepped up to my room, locked from inside, and then
it was an ear away whispering, thou shall not worry, I'm done for the night, though I'm not a guy working nine to five at a bank. But I shall be back.  I woke up in my dream to the aroma of coffee and rays of sunshine, looked down and saw it sipping on the patio, fresh for its morning assignment, looked up and gave me a friendly hello. 
Did you get a good sleep? Swell. And that's when my incessant cough began.
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Don'T Know, Don'T Care

I swear, my parents act like they were never teens in a pandemic growing up.

I was watching “Perry Mason,” an HBO show set in the 1930s. Perry gets mail out of his mailbox and I think “no GLOVES??” This pandemic has a hold of me.

6:30am  I’m finishing my shower - wrapping my hair in a towel.
Mom: *from my room* “I have something for you!”
Me: “OK.” (I’m curious)
I step out of the shower, wrap on a towel, and my mom steps up and gives me a flu shot without so much as a “by your leave.”  Dr. Surprise strikes again. 
My arm hurts  =/

Writing a paper, on my computer, in class - I try to use the perfect word but I spell it so badly the spell checker gives up and in effect, says “I got nothin’.” I switch words.

Telling a girl to calm down is like trying to put a cat in a tub.
My parents think every guy I talk to is my boyfriend.
If I’m texting and smiling my parents think I have a boyfriend.
I say, I don’t know” when I don’t care.

For ALL of its downsides virtual school is better because:
   My two BFF and I have a facetime call going ALL school day so we can say 
     snarky things..
  I can listen to music on my headphones during classes.
  I have multiple screens so I can web-surf during classes.
  I don’t have to wear shoes or a skirt! 
  I can put a video up so it looks like I’m paying attention.
  I can snack/take a bathroom break whenever I want to.
  I don’t have to carry a backpack or make locker stops.
  I can be late or leave early and blame it on “tech issues”.

Indebted Forever

We are indebted seriously 
To all free spouts covered 
Whose nozzles hardly suspire
And hanged up to rest in subsequent sighs 
But keep hoping the wait be over soon 

We are indebted seriously 
To all hands withheld from howdy to observe
Social distance relations it doesn't admire 
As we do wanting to draw the heaven nigh
But only with words, most people reach for the moon 

We are indebted forever 
To the lives lost to Corona virus 
That are most likely to have been saved 
For more grace to sail in the boat of life
But to no avail, all efforts proved abortive 

We are indebted forever 
To the streets littered with corpses 
Of the less privileged burnt as offerings 
In fear not to spread the virus 
But in surprise, the rich were given befitting burials

We are indebted forever 
To the health personnel 
Who lost their lives 
Trying to save others' lives in duty 
But beyond aid, they crossed the bar 

We are indebted forever 
To the press reporters 
Spreading information and saving lives 
Reaching out to audiences in risk 
But for honor, they were not awarded 

We are indebted forever 
To those who lost their jobs to pandemic 
And couldn't find another means of survival 
Than to watch their lives in the hand of hunger
But for hope, it was just hoping for the uncertain 

We are indebted forever 
To those that died of hunger 
Whose death was recorded as corona death 
So as to make numbers and headlines 
But while starving, nothing much came through... 

We are indebted forever 
To the stage of earth 
And nature's reaction 
Beyond science research 
That no vaccine ideally set us free 

We are indebted forever 
To the kind hearted men
Who did give away in abundance 
Than the societies less expected
In secret that sorrows flee many houses 

Happy survival! 
To all who God's grace kept
From the touch of Corona 
And still breathe
Without trouble in healthy system 

We can not do this forever 
Crying for love, for hatred, for death 
And forget the sick Rose and the healthy night 
For peace ahead of us in regret 
Wandering lonely as a thick cloud 
In the eyes of time traveling through the clock 
Where end is not ascertained like the blast of waterfall
When... when shall we gladly go
For cheers, for gaze and for praise 
That are ceased up in Corona's craziness?
Form: Rhyme

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