by Rob Crisell and The Society of Classical Poets and shared by Host: Don Mast, Co-founder of Ruff House Marketing
Kilmer
I think no eye has ever seen,
A poem like this quarantine.
E.B. Browning
How do I glove thee? Let me count the ways.
Poe
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom not-so-clean,
That a virus there lived that you may know
By the name of COVID-19.
Dickinson
Because I could not stop for death
He kindly stopped for me –
I told him that I had acquired
My herd immunity.
Angelou
The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of life postponed,
but not the bill.
Shakespeare
Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
My 401k is barely there.
Longfellow
Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.
Or maybe it’s better to tell you the caper
Of how I discovered some toilet paper
At a Safeway only three miles from here.
Eliot
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out— DON’T TOUCH YOUR EYE!
Marlowe
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That yield the valleys, groves, and hills,
So long as you can pay my bills.
Coleridge
Water, water, everywhere,
But all the time we think:
Who wants this water anyway
With so much wine to drink?
Burns
Oh, my love is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June.
But my love says that she’ll murder me
If this ain’t done real soon.
Haiku
by Joe Tessitore
I went to a show
and I sat next to strangers
a lifetime ago.
Quarantine Nursery Rhymes
by Connie Phillips
Oh happy day—it’s finally spring!
The flowers bloom, the birdies sing…
We’re stuck at home, so thank Beijing,
And practice social distancing!
—
Netflix or YouTube, where to look?
Your kids are home, you need a hook.
They’ve heard it all, that gobbledygook…
Do something novel—read a book!
—
This virus from the CCP,
Upending all society,
Made toilet tissue ironically
Our most valuable commodity.
—
I ventured out to take a break,
And thought that I should shop for steak…
Instead, I went down to the lake
With coffee and some carrot cake!
Contact Don by email at donald@ruffhousemarketing.com, Storyteller, and Co-Founder of Ruff House Marketing. Co-Host, Michael Allison, Artist, Historian, Storyteller. Owner of StudioEFX. You can contact Michael by email: mjallison.studioefx@verizon.net .
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