It's Writers' Pantry #56, the temperature this morning was 4 degrees (yes, FOUR), and I'm having a spell of Covid blues, so I've written a pity poem. Submitted to Poets & Storytellers United, February 7, 2021. (Digital art is mine)
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I’m an affable people person
Exchange of ideas is a fix
Discussion is motivation
I crave a social mix
I need a touch on the shoulder
A handshake or a hug
I want to sit at a table
And see someone else’s mug
I’d love to see a movie
Most any kind of show
I’d be so danged excited
To have a place to go
Now I order groceries
I don’t shop inside any more
It would be exciting
Just to go to the grocery store
I’m known to be loquacious
But I’m grounded now, you know
It’s winter in Indiana
Walkers don’t work in the snow
I’m having a pity party
But probably no one can come
We’re busy getting our vaccine
Waiting til we all get some
The whole thing is so relatable, Bev. The last stanza made me sigh aloud, because I think most of us are having that party together while apart.
ReplyDeleteI'm sending you gentle hugs and a mental picture of my mug: it's beige (and enormous), covered in little hearts and the phrase "I love you more" written on the inside. It was a gift from my boy, one of the things that makes me feel close to him (now that COVID doesn't let me see him as often).
An upbeat poem for the time we are living in right now - sharing these thoughts so personably, helps us all through it somehow - thanks for this Beverley
ReplyDeleteTruth! I'm an introvert, but I can't wait to go back to my local library and actually browse the stacks, hoping to stumble upon "just the right book." I haven't been inside a store since the first week of March 2020--almost a year!
ReplyDeleteYou somehow turn this time of isolation into fun. It's like having more nice clothes than ever before but no place to wear them or be seen.
ReplyDelete"I’m having a pity party
ReplyDeleteBut probably no one can come"
I couldn't help smiling at that line!
It must be so hard on the naturally gregarious! (Us hermits don't notice all that much difference, lol.)
ReplyDeleteHow important it is to have poetry written like this to record for the future what we have experieced over this last year.
ReplyDeleteCute! I, on the other hand, don't care if I see people or not! There are things I do want to do, desperately. Go into libraries instead of pick up holds, and go to thrift stores. It will be a year since I did that! I quit in March when they were open (are now again) when a cashier was coughing.
ReplyDeleteWe need to have a virtual pity party. Something to think about when you master Zoom! I love your pity poem.
ReplyDeleteWOMP! There it is.
ReplyDeleteAnd you nailed it perfectly, Beverly. Thanks.
Hang in there...it wont be forever
ReplyDeleteI so understand. I have wondered if I am merely an Avatar dancing through the web.
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