All Days
(pandemic time)
July seems to be rushing
Toward conclusion
I’m not sure how that is
But there is a number at
The lower right-hand corner
That changes
Every day
And soon will be over
Maybe because it’s hard to
Tell the weekdays from
Each other
I was certain Sunday it was
Saturday,
Which should be the
Mind providing one more day
Rather than one less
But, you see,
All the days are merging
In self-quarantine
I imagine you know
What I mean
Some day we’ll be over it
Not because we say so
And we’ll look back in time
To wonder how we did it
With worse help
From Washington—well, there
I’ll need
To get beyond it, too
Not simply the spate of days
Cheers to August
More time for discovery
Maybe the science news
Like numbers for days
Will turn forward
C L Couch
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July 30, 2020 at 6:36 pm
Very true, Christopher, the days just blend, one into another, all carrying the same weight. The Ontario government has just announced that schools will commence in September but children from grades 4-12 must wear masks in the classroom. Not sure how that will go over with the students. Especially high school students. Interesting times.
July 30, 2020 at 9:17 pm
Good luck to the Ontario schools. Schools in the USA in a sort-of guidelined, still-unclear, state-by-state way are supposed to open, too. I do wish the world would have decided to take a year to deal exclusively with the disease.
You’re right, highschoolers having school and teenage life are going to–I don’t know what they’re going to do. Interesting, yes.
Thank you, Len.
July 30, 2020 at 7:01 pm
I like how you chose to write a poem about our lives in the pandemic, while I’ve seen many articles, I’ve seen very few poems on the topic. The last verse/stanza instils hope in the reader, thanks for sharing and may August be the month of scientific discovery! 🌺🌸
July 30, 2020 at 9:21 pm
Thank you! (And for the flower emoticons.) The pandemic tag is mainly for now but also when, after, we want to see how we were thinking and expressing the time. The last stanza is meant to be more hopeful, yes. Scientists working on cures might break through, as there’s evidence even now of that maybe happening.
I hope you are very safe and well.
July 30, 2020 at 10:03 pm
The pleasure is mine! I think it will be interesting to reflect, even once the pandemic is over as reminder of how we overcame trying times. I am good thank you, I hope that you are keeping safe and well too 😊
August 1, 2020 at 12:43 am
I am fine, thank you. Not sick from the virus. (I just knocked on wood.)
July 30, 2020 at 8:57 pm
Yes, living in a time warp as the sci-fi fans would say.
Here’s hoping for improvement in August and beyond!
July 30, 2020 at 9:24 pm
Mushing time the way we are could make for a sci-fi narrative (in which we could be messing up space-time, overall). Thank you, yes–August for improvement!