The Podcast About Everything by Michael Allison Hour of the Wolf Studios

June 12, 2020 BONUS! Famous Poems (Updated for the Covid Quarantine)

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 [email protected], Storyteller, and Co-Founder of Ruff House Marketing. Co-Host, Michael Allison, Artist, Historian, Storyteller. Owner of StudioEFX. You can contact Michael by email: [email protected] .

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