Poetry in a Time of Covid: Spring-Summer, 2020, Part 1

by Gerard Sullivan

Sunny & Cold

Will Corona unfold?

This SUCKS

            March 16

Hope you have another productive day.

I’m off to the laundromat, YEAH!

Could this possibly last all the way to MAY? 

            March 18

Corona-Corona– Shame on you

You are a bore and a bully too!

            March 19

COVID 19- -Why you so mean?

People freaking out

Like I never seen!

            March 20

Ducks serenely rise and drop on the incoming swells.

No Corona concerns

Lucky Ducks

            March 22

33 degrees -with a stiff biting breeze – birds sing in the trees

1 for 3 is good, in baseball, and in life, me thinks.

Count your Blessings.

            March 23

The days are long & boring too

You never know how I miss You

Nothing is so hard to do.

            March 24

What is there to say on a gloomy day? 

The door is shut and the windows closed, 

Yet, I can hear the Cardinal’s song.

Down came the rain

To the flowers’ gain

Their gain is my pain.

            March 29

The days are too long & too boring

Too much of the time I spend snoring.

I cannot pretend

That in the end

There’s too much of life I’m ignoring.

            March 30

Can’t sleep past 4

Exercise on the floor

I hear rain outside my door

This is such a painful bore

            April 2

Beach Haiku:

The Ocean’s artwork

In sand on a lonely beach

Nature’s Masterpiece.

            April 5

I hear the B.S. flowing – from the leader of the free world

What he sez I find – so obscenely absurd

I’m stuck in COVID Prison – The time keeps dragging on……..

I dread the isolation – At the crack of dawn

Life was always hard – But a least we had some fun

Now life is so uncertain – I’m not the only one

Stuck in COVID Prison – It’s a daily grind….

My only hope this morning – is some Joy I’ll find.

I know I have been blessed – I know I’ve had my day

But I don’t understand, just how it got this way

Stuck in COVID Prison – How long no one can tell

Stuck in COVID Prison – a temporary Hell.

The birds outside are singing—the Sun is shining bright

I know that in the future—there will be delight…….

Stuck in COVID Prison – How long no one can tell

In Spring Hope is eternal—someday all will be well.

            April 14

Belly Grumbling

As I go Stumbling

Another COVID Day

            April 18

Face Masks & Plexiglass

A New way of doing things

I understand, but still it does sting!

            April 20

Find a syringe – Now don’t complain

Shoot disinfectant into a vein.

“I think it will work!” Sez the president

But first write a will, for your descendants.

            April 24

Put on some Mariachi – So lively & bright

It’s a delight – In the midst of this blight.

May 5

Gerard Sullivan describes himself as a “”Melancholy Red Sox fan from the North Shore.”