Quarantine Haiku

Since April is National Poetry Month, let’s start off with some haiku I wrote last year during quarantine.

04.08.20 – Day #21 of Quarantine, Isolation, Distancing.

• Morning birds sing
• & Harmonize
• To celebrate & welcome the day

• Day 21
• Quarantined still
• The sun still shines

• Day 21…quarantined
• Still the sun shines
• Over my head

• Day 21
• Quarantined
• I’m still here

• Neighbour sneezes in their yard
• Virus or just allergies?
• What am I to think?

• Neighbour sneezes in their yard
• Virus or allergies?
• Don’t know WHAT to think

• Sitting here, grounded
• While birds fly
• I’m jealous

• Devoid of human touch
• The breeze is here
• Holding me close

• Sitting… thinking
• The wind passes by
• & Says, “Enough”.

• In the absence
• Of human touch
• The sun greets me
• Each morning
• With a kiss

• In the absence of human touch
• The sun greets me each morning
• With a kiss

• Sitting on the porch
• I hear the train
• Moving down the tracks