Unkindness

“Please kindly go away, I’m introverting.” ~ Beth Buelow

Raven black days

The winter of our discontent

Will we remember those now gone

 

Evening tumbles into day

Days are spent in avoiding others

Or at least they should be

 

The new lexicon

Containing terms like

Social distancing, six feet apart, handwashing and masking

 

Raven black days

Winter of our discontent

Tallying up our dead

 

Long nights followed by long days

Storm clouds loom overhead

In this winter of sorrow and loss

 

Reviews

[Haley]

Wow, what a powerful piece that leaves one feeling exactly as this reads. It's such a period piece for this crazy moment that we are in and captures the aloneness that is quarantining for months on end. Good job!

[MCS]

Hello Haley, thank you for your visit and sharing.

Sad what a mess we are in, sad that so many are dead and dying.

Here’s wishing for better times.

You keep safe.

[barleygirl]

Your poem does a great job of helping a reader feel the meaningless emptiness that I feel inside when I try to grasp the "new normal" that's "out there" . . . beyond my own wilderness existence. I felt many of the ways you describe in your poem, years before covid became a problem & this is part of how I came to be a wilderness loner. While most people are still struggling thru stages of missing their old lives & they can't get used to this new normal, I've had 10 years to learn how much better solitude can be, compared to whatever's "out there" for the taking in my own particular set of circumstances (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[MCS]

Hello Margie, thank you for sharing your thoughts.
I cannot make any sense of all this. In my soul I know that we will never be the same.
I want to think that we will learn from this and be and do better, however I know that is very unlikely. This whole experience has shown us that we are dealing with two pandemics stupidity and covid-19.
Be safe!

[barleygirl]

Two pandemics . . . an undeniable concept that deserves a poem all its own!

[MCS]

Well Margie, I've done just that. I just posted Pandemic 1 & 2.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

this has been a spring, summer, fall and now winter of discontent and loss...
so unnecessary...if only the approach had been different.
The tally would be so much less...And the ravens not be like a murder of large crows.
intense and true, this write. Yes, Poe comes to mind and heart.
j.

[MCS]

Hello Jacob, you are so right its just been too much
Thank you for your ongoing kind support

[John the Baptist]

Somber stuff here. Reminds me of Poe. Sadly, it's not fiction.

[MCS]

Hello John, thank you for your visit. Its so far from fiction and its not done yet.