With the wildfires in the West and Covid ravaging the country, this poem has been months in the making, the depression finally breaking and the light beginning to shine again, I’m ready to share it with those of similar struggles.
“And hidden everywhere/Is a little germ/That brings down the mighty”. Excellent expression of this pandemic. You have captured the desolation and aloneness. This is a strong piece of poetry. ~~ djl
Powerful sentiments. I'm so glad I don't have smoke-filled days, even the year that an area the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined burned in Texas. The prevailing winds did not bring that smoke here.
So I can see that the isolation of the pandemic, combined with bad air if you went outside and the emptiness of "friending" on social media, can combine for those of weaker disposition to turn to depression until the sun shines through the smokee and the threat of the pandemic subsides.
So glad you're coming out of the funk and can write again.
As your insightful poem posits, there is a slow stealth-like suffocation taking place that is forcing far too many into isolation. And, as the news continues to report, isolation converts to frustration, to anger, to violence. Would that more people who are slaves to innocuous uses of the internet could read your poem, perhaps some changes could at least be contemplated. An arresting poem.
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So I can see that the isolation of the pandemic, combined with bad air if you went outside and the emptiness of "friending" on social media, can combine for those of weaker disposition to turn to depression until the sun shines through the smokee and the threat of the pandemic subsides.
So glad you're coming out of the funk and can write again.
Ron