A to Z Writing Challenge - X for X

When I am holed up

In a tiny space

Without access

To a garden of my own

I love to walk

In parks

And along rivers

Underneath tall trees

After the cockatoos

Have finished feasting

And sprinkled 

All their dinner left overs

On the ground

I collect them together

And secrete them 

Around my home

And as I move

Through my days

They feel like

Tiny kisses of love

xxx

29/4/20 

A to Z Writing Challenge - W for Waiting

Who can identify

With the word 

‘Waiting’ right now?

Around the world

We are waiting

To see what is possible

If not probable

For this week 

And the next

Will we be able to drive

Or eat out

Or go to work?

Things we have 

Always taken for granted

All put on hold

But wait

What’s this?

A missive

From afar

Stating that life

Is already happening

While we are waiting!

Have we missed it?

Oh no!

Because this is our life

Like it or not

And as we yearn 

For something else

We have lost it

Wait no more.

28/4/20

A to Z Writing Challenge - V for Valiant

Here I sit

Late at night

Trying to find

Some words within

To fill a small poem

On the letter V

Only 5 days left

To finish our challenge

A to Z we said

And now regret

Our gung-ho commitment

At the start of the month

Champing at the bit

To have a go

And find some

Unusual poem topics

But now it feels

The well is dry

And all my ideas

Are about the virus

How many more poems

Can I write

About something

I really want to forget

But maybe once more

In our daily lives

And on the page

We will make a valiant effort

And carry on

27/4/20

A to Z Writing Challenge - U for Understand

In my life

I have found

People long

To be understood

To be seen and heard

By others

To feel their lives

Matter

And that they aren’t alone

In their big bad world

So now in this moment

Of world disintegration

And yet integration

We can turn

To each other

And be that which

We long for

By saying

I understand

25/4/20

A to Z Writing Challenge - T for Tiny

Covid-19

Has upended our lives

It seems all powerful

Throwing its weight around

Like a bully

And we are consumed

By the fear and changes

Around us

But maybe

To keep this all

In perspective

We can remember

It is just

A few strands of DNA

On an insignificant person

On a tiny planet

In a solar system

In the unfashionable end

Of the Milky Way

24/4/20

A to Z Writing Challenge - S for Schooling

Schooling

It's a funny thing

My kids have learnt things

I never expected

In this time of quaratine

I call it

Pandemic learning

For example

Before corona virus

I could never instill

Judicious use

Of toilet paper

And we would use

One roll in two days

-- I despaired --

But now

Threatened with shortage

We have made a pack

Last two months!

Nothing quite like

Panic schooling

And what have I learned?

I sure have upped

My handwashing game

And I've discovered

I can trust

My kids will be provided

With just the lessons

They need

For them to really understand

Deep learning

Is my favourite

23/4/20

A to Z Writing Challenge - R for Release

My morning yoga

Takes place

Under a tree

And I watch

As leaves release

Without fuss

From their branch

And float gently

To the ground

They have no prior experience

Of the ground

No notion

Of how much

It could hurt

But as they stare

Day after day

At their potential end

Do they cry and scream

And gnash their teeth?

No, they do their jobs

Helping the tree to grow

And then when it’s time

They let go.

How graceful

And poetic 

Their journey seems

And how we could learn

From them

To leave our current state

In a similarly elegant way

And simply

Move on.

22/4/20