Pandemic Poems

Struggling during the current Coronavirus pandemic, I wanted to write something that urged me to keep positive. It is important for me/us to remember the world keeps moving, I hope it can help others.

At 8:00pm on Thursday, March 26, 2020, people across the whole of the U.K. stood at their windows or stepped outside their homes to applaud the National Health Staff who are working so hard in difficult conditions to care for those suffering from the Coronavirus.

Accept a challenge of togetherness in these anxious times! Here we sit, ripped from our daily norms, patterns, routines... thrust into a viral quarantine. We are separated yet also bonded, as is the unique case in times of world and community crisis. Perhaps each evening, for the smallest amount of time, we join together in our solitude - a moment to pause, to reflect, and yes, to smile.

Poetry is my way of making my feelings more real and of grappling with the fearful and unknown that so often plagues our lives. I hope this poem also serves as an opportunity for the reader to remember that there is hope, even - and especially - in the direst of circumstances.

It's a simple rhyming poem about living during COVID.

This is a story about how during a pandemic, my mind took a dark turn. I was feeling depressed, helpless, and did not know what to do. So one day I took a scenic drive. I just wanted to be with nature, to clear my head. Once I did that, I once again felt happy and I felt a restoration of my freedoms. I learned that even in the darkest times, there is still light in life.

Just a simple poem with a message of hope in a time of pandemic, rebirth in dark times

I wrote this about the Coronavirus and its effect on all of us.

Mum went into a Nursing Home in September last year. She had lived in the family home for six years after my father passed away. For two years we had caregivers assisting mum, eventually needing live in caregivers, then sadly we had to move mum to a nursing home. For six months everything was okay. We visited regularly, conscious our visits were very important to her well-being. Then the home went into lockdown. Her sight and hearing incredibly poor, our only forms of contact were FaceTime and the phone, and it wasn't enough.

Giving thought and recognition to all the key workers during these difficult times of the pandemic.

I tried to pen my feelings during these unprecedented times we are living... the social distancing from our loved ones, the fear of the unknown while trying to juggle working from home and at home.

A poem to all of my students' moms/grandmothers who have been homeschooling during this pandemic. I invited them to a Zoom meeting with their child to share my appreciation of them.

Due to the sickness that the world is facing, the only hope we have is the faith that God will soon end this.

I wanted to write something positive and to give hope during these difficult times. It is the first poem that I have submitted.