Latest Poems
Old Days
By Tim Brookes
Are these Old days on notice;
our blind faith in tomorrow?
You have to go through the bad
to appreciate the good.
Covid-19
By Qurrat-ul-Ain
A small invisible spec, o, not a spec even,
A lifeless thorny minor ball, yet mighty enough
To challenge daringly a creature six feet tall,
Bringing the world into chaos,
Quarantine
By Rory Morrice
14 days of solitude – an anti-viral cleansing,
A sacrifice of liberty for entry to a frenzy,
No faces, names or words exchanged,
Three knocks a day for meals to claim,
The hand that feeds and holds the key,
Keeps inside in and outside free.
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