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POETRY IN THE PLAGUE YEAR
Poems written during the Coronavirus Outbreak 2020
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| S.M.Beckett Trinadad S.M.Beckett is an artist-poet in Trinidad, West Indies. She was Nominated PoetKit Poet of the Month 2014. Her work has been published Carribean Beat, Maco and Poems for a Liminal Age. She was guest reader at the Bocas Litfest 2016. 4 am Elegies I:I is the first Canto in a ‘Journey-poem’. Poem started on January 16th 2020. 4am Elegies 1 :1 Tell me about solitude, yours, and I’ll tell you mine - how it is during the long nights when the earth sleeps and the trees are silent shadows of themselves. How, on those nights when I feel crushed and without hope, I get up from the floor where I’ve lain head in arms, to stand by my window and look at the stars, watch the moon riding among clouds. - remind myself how the earth bears us day after day, never striving against the edges of itself; how it turns and turns again, gently, on its axis. I imagine the pale approach of dawn, light rising over the hills, how a little wind, soft as the sigh of God, might touch my skin and the birds will sing for us all once more. Who of us has not endured these nights besieged by loneliness, each of us in our own little kingdom, waiting for reprieve? |