Isolated Man (a poetic pandemic)
And so it begins...
The shroud descends upon the masses.
The Prime Minister's conference has brought down the hammer of closure. Mandatory walls of isolation close in as nurses scurry with the pacience of saints.
The first day of spring breathes a sigh of relief whilst planes, trains, automobiles put on their brakes to join in the stillness of nature.
Singers, dancers, actors, performers, exit stage left with the last encore lingering on the curtain of sleep.
The new dawn begins and I wonder at 'My Corona'.
The whiff of inertia sniffs at my heels...
It is the
Semblance of order...
Exercise
Nature
Music
Reading
Sleep
But before all this, the garden needs a new fence.
The irony is not lost.
About this poem
It is a reflection on the very first day of lockdown (20th March 2020) in the United Kingdom, where I reside. It was inspired from the diaries I kept during this period of the Corona Virus pandemic.
Written on October 25, 2022
Submitted by mirroredshower on October 25, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXX AB CXCAXAXXBXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,003 |
Words | 132 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 11 |
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