*originally written 7.2.20 Darby Dan training loop and Greenway trail, 5.52 Sometimes we learn things we have believed for decades to be untrue. Like the wiry, dry flowers lining highways … Continue reading Pandemic Poem #34
Tag: pandemic poems
Back-to-School* Pandemic Poem #2
originally written 9.2.20 *remote six a.m. and coffeecoffeecoffee to seven or eight post meridian Eyes glossy and bloodshot from the night before learning not how to slay aliens and other … Continue reading Back-to-School* Pandemic Poem #2
Pandemic Poem #38
In that space of knowing Something needs to be done But not knowing What it is What to do Where to go How to say it What to feel I … Continue reading Pandemic Poem #38
Instagram Poem #5
Sometimes we need to take
one step back
from the chaos
in the world
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Teacher Pandemic Poem #2
Our last class discussion
was devoted
to calming the fears
of eleven year olds
Teacher Pandemic Poem #1
The children you want to send to my classroom
in the fall
are not
the same children who left my classroom
in the winter.
AM Pandemic Poem #1
Sunrise
is non-billable therapy for
loneliness
Happy Poem #1
When was
the
last
time
Pandemic Poem #37
Are you going to be
the same person
at the end of the pandemic
as you were
at the beginning?
Pandemic Poem #36
Distilling my day
into words
should not be so difficult.
Pandemic Poem #35
In July, migraines make mornings start
before meditation and journaling.
The heat you went to bed with
is the heat you wake up with.
Pandemic Poem #33
Neighborhood, 3.2 Another sleepless night ebbs into a morning of walking
Pandemic Poem #32
How do people live
the unexamined life?
Why is it so hard
to learn from our mistakes?
To see them as lessons
Pandemic Poem #31
or, Things Learned Walking 5 Miles on the Solstice
East to West, Roundabout
The distance traveled by
a roadkill raccoon’s liver
is twice that
Pandemic Poem #30
First day cycling since fall.
Why not sooner?
Come home to nap
on the deck
Words by Beth 