CORONAVIRUS POEMS
Dear students,
Poems on Covid-19 outbreak go viral on the web: inspiration seems to be striking everywhere. The texts I selected are below this short message, please.
Happy reading !
Yours respectfully.
Miss Amar
POEM 1: Corona Vespers by John Boyne (2020)
Little boy stands at the edge of the door,
Glances behind, then looks down at the floor.
Hush! Hush! Keep your hands clean!
Christopher Robin is in quarantine.
At first it was good to be kept off of school
He’s quite far advanced and is nobody’s fool
But he missed out a party the day he turned six
And he’s seen everything on iTunes and Netflix.
He can’t even play with his big sister Alice
Who’s having a meltdown at Buckingham Palace
A soldier’s life might be terribly hard
But it’s easier now they’ve stopped changing the guard.
Little boy stands at the end of the drive
He likes being out there, he feels more alive.
Hush! Hush! Don’t get too near!
Christopher Robin is shedding a tear.
Daddy is home and is working upstairs
But rather than suits, it’s just sweatpants he wears.
He no longer shaves and works out his frustration
By just playing FIFA upon his PlayStation.
[...]
The playground is near but he sees it’s deserted
It’s been that way ever since they were alerted
To dangers the scientists identified
Of sharing a roundabout, swing or a slide.
There’s nowhere to go and there’s no one to see
He hopes this will end but there’s no guarantee
How he wishes that he had his own time machine
He’d go back to the months before Covid-19.
[...]
Source: https://johnboyne.com/coronavirus-poems/Coronavirus Poems
(PROSE) POEM 2: Untitled by Kitty O'Meara, an Irish American teacher (2020)
And the people stayed home.
And they read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still.
And they listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced.
Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently.
And the people healed.
And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.
And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed.
Source: https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/irish-american-teachers-poem-covid19-outbreak
POEM 3: Stay saf by S. Hemanth, The TVS Scholl (2020)
Don’t take risk,
Please put mask.
Don’t go in flight,
Washing hands is right.
Stay safe at home,
Otherwise it will harm.
Don’t mingle,
Always be single.
When carelessness increases,
Population decreases.
Isolation is the only way,
To fight against coronavirus, I say.
Source: https://www.thehindu.com/children/covid-19-lockdown-poem-stay-safe/article31345597.ece