Corona Poetry Live
A BRIGHT YOUNG POET by Irene Hendrick
A bright young poet named Fiona Who, not wanting her audience to disown ‘er Drank through a straw, her coffee and more Saving her lips…
Read MoreNOW IS THE TIME by Sabine Lehmann
Now is the time when all you can do is wait for it all to be over, but you don’t know what day it is…
Read MorePRESENT OR NOT by Sabine Lehmann
Sometimes something like a second can make the difference between being present or not but you don’t know when you’re in it because you can’t…
Read MoreDEFINITION OF LOVE By Irina Orza
Love is a reality. Love is a dream. Love is so strange that you no longer know when you dream and when you have it.…
Read MoreELEVEN by Patricia Whittle
Eleven….changing schools Uniform was green..not cool Crushed on teachers Crushed on friends Came out twenty years later Had the best And worst Of both worlds
Read MoreTHE CLOUDS HAVE WON by Jody Conklin
Today the clouds have one. I know it’s just one day and tomorrow is on written. So today I am grey, sad and quiet. Lost…
Read MoreTHE TURNIP HEAD By Sophie Elizabeth Dent
When the wind blows My ears hurt Oh, oh I scream! How can I live, my life upon earth Without vanilla ice cream…
Read MoreTHOUGHTS ON BEING IN OR OUT by Anonymous
Are you in? Or coming out? It’s got me shaken all about Sometimes in, sometimes out Right hand knows not What left hand describes. Right…
Read MoreA WOMAN FROM TRALEE From The Goon Show sent in by Rupert Finch (Munich)
There was a young man from Tralee Who was stung on the arm by a wasp When asked if it hurt He replied, ‘not a…
Read MoreHELLO TO THE CEILING Spencer Green aka Hal Phillip Walker
Hello to the ceiling And the paint that is peeling I focus my stare Despite my glower Which I wield by the hour The ceiling’s…
Read MoreMY MUM INSIDE MY HEAD by Fiona Goodwin – Santa Monica CA
My mother offered me a cup of tea As I stirred from sleep today ‘Darling can I get you a lovely cup of tea? she…
Read MoreCORONA FOR A REASON by Tina Walsh
You have come here for a reason, corona this I know. To help our mother nature take back the land she owns. We need to…
Read MoreONE by Christine Hernandez
Working from home, a widely studied and Employee dream… Now forced to do it along side your partner while your children scream… Not exactly how…
Read MoreBLUE NAIL POLISH By Lin Joy Luber
I like your blue nail polish. Yes. You meet yourself over and over again as you are in lock down. We get to look at…
Read MorePOEMS RHYME By Hal Philip Walker
Poems rhyme Except when they don’t Free verse treads where couplets won’t Some concise and tight But precise? Not quite Cryptic purpose lyrically spun And…
Read MorePOLLYANNA by Maria Gulczynska – Italy
If I am straight Does that make you zigzag? If I am gay Are you to be against? We care about pronouns She He Ze…
Read MorePLAY DAYS by Anonymous
Are you coming out to play? The question brooked no delay When I was little. Red boots on, yellow jacket Buttoned up by Mum Opened…
Read MoreWON’T YOU CELEBRATE WITH ME by Lucille Clifton – Sent in by Elizabeth J Haist
(Black American poet – former poet laureate of Maryland 1936-2010.) won’t you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i…
Read MoreA LADY FROM TOTTENHAM from Verse & Worse Sent in by Rupert Finch – Munich
There once was a lady from Tottenham Who’d no manners or else she’d forgotten ‘em At tea at the vicar’s She tore off her knickers…
Read MoreCRACKING UP IN THE TIME OF CORONA by Fiona Goodwin
The veneer of cheerful calm it’s cracking, I’m a prisoner in my own home, Lucky you say the inmates of Rikers, You get to breathe…
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