Corona Poetry Live

A BRIGHT YOUNG POET by Irene Hendrick

April 16, 2020

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…

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NOW IS THE TIME by Sabine Lehmann

April 16, 2020

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…

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PRESENT OR NOT by Sabine Lehmann

April 16, 2020

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…

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DEFINITION OF LOVE By Irina Orza

April 16, 2020

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.…

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ELEVEN by Patricia Whittle

April 16, 2020

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

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THE CLOUDS HAVE WON by Jody Conklin

April 16, 2020

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…

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THE TURNIP HEAD By Sophie Elizabeth Dent

April 16, 2020

When the wind blows My ears hurt Oh, oh I scream! How can I live, my life upon earth Without vanilla ice cream…

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THOUGHTS ON BEING IN OR OUT by Anonymous

April 16, 2020

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…

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A WOMAN FROM TRALEE From The Goon Show sent in by Rupert Finch (Munich)

April 16, 2020

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…

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HELLO TO THE CEILING Spencer Green aka Hal Phillip Walker

April 16, 2020

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…

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MY MUM INSIDE MY HEAD by Fiona Goodwin – Santa Monica CA

April 15, 2020

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…

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CORONA FOR A REASON by Tina Walsh

April 15, 2020

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…

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ONE by Christine Hernandez

April 15, 2020

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…

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BLUE NAIL POLISH By Lin Joy Luber

April 15, 2020

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…

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POEMS RHYME By Hal Philip Walker

April 15, 2020

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…

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POLLYANNA by Maria Gulczynska – Italy

April 15, 2020

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…

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PLAY DAYS by Anonymous

April 15, 2020

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…

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WON’T YOU CELEBRATE WITH ME by Lucille Clifton – Sent in by Elizabeth J Haist

April 15, 2020

(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…

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A LADY FROM TOTTENHAM from Verse & Worse Sent in by Rupert Finch – Munich

April 15, 2020

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…

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CRACKING UP IN THE TIME OF CORONA by Fiona Goodwin

April 14, 2020

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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