Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Corona Cinquain Sequence




Corona Cinquain Sequence

Virus
Droplets deadly
Lurking there in the breath
Unknown enemy replicates
Covid

Blue tit
Inquisitive
Pecks at the windowpane
Opens the morning into our day
Bright bird

Panic
Useless senseless
Piling trolleys mile high
Toilet rolls the new currency
Terror

Sunshine
Hope-giving days
Recharge the sky all round
Hearts expanding in the light of it
A gift




Lockdown
Self-isolate
Cleaning painting baking
A time for every purpose now
Holed-up

Silence
Gives the birds space
To fill their day with song
Each branch their Roman balcony
Heart time

Children
Locked in no friends
Supports taken from them
Parents alone at their wits’ end
Regress

            Young hare
Colour of soil
Bounds into our night world
Sits on the ridge while dark falls down
Saves us




Facemask
The next fashion
Catching the sneeze sickly cough
Makes us all look like aliens
Hiding

            Catkins
            Take to the air
            Falling like snow on grass
Land like birds onto fresh turned clay
Tree birth       

Numbers
Heart-breaking counts
Families grieve alone
Coffins crowd high in parking lots
More deaths

            Create
            New ways to live
            Gardens become the way
            To bring us closer to ourselves
Slow time




Easing
Glorious news
Letting us out at last
Hopefuls running into the streets
To live

            White deer
            In the forest
Glimpse beyond the trees
Miracle on our day’s walk
A path.


Photographs courtesy of Peter Moore 2020

This sequence of cinquains was first published in the July edition of Live Encounters