Pandemic Poems of 2020

A selection of fifty poems which capture the experience of the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemicin a personal way. The sheltered in mandate by the governors of the states stricken withthe Coronavirus has resulted in a new reality for most Americans. The feeling of being trappedat home working remotely confronting boredom and dealing with those complex emotions areall captured in rhyme. Starting with Trapped at Home The Longest Month and Time to Workthe books initial poems address the what now reality of the virus restrictions. The CDCs restrictionsare captures in rhyme in the poems Social Distancing The Limits and the CDC Way. The emotionsfrom staying inside too many days are presented in Stir Crazy The Jolt of Covid-19 and Surviving and Thriving. The upward spiral of Covid-19 cases from the failure of so many refusing towear masks or shelter in inspired the poems Dont Listen to Stupid In Total Disbelief and Someone Elses Problem. On a more positive note staying well during the pandemic has required a mindset to comply withthe CDC guidelines. The discipline required inspired the poems Its Great to Be Alive For Better or Worse Surviving 2020 Happy is the Way. The reader will get the feeling of being in the Twilight Zone reading Pandemic Hallucinations Broken Times What Day Is It? and Feels Like a Dream. Blaming the U.S. Government is a theme that has arisenin anger to the social restrictions loss of loved ones and the economic hardships brought on my the pandemic. The poems What Could Have Been The Hypocrisy of It All and Mixed Messages truly capture those feelings.The poems should provide some comic relief while at the same time provide a picture of the human experiencewe have all been going through during the tying months of 2020.