WFSC Creative Writing Facilitators Mike Deregowski and Kelsey Hoople challenge you to participate in national poetry month. 1 poem per day for 30 days with no working ahead. 😉
Overall theme 'The Great Escape'.
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Day 13 | April 13th | Escaping Boredom
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13. Escaping Boredom
Within everyone exists a skill
That, when called upon, can act at will
None of us are deplete of the ability to score
Pique an interest or a hobby
Filling time with something more
We work to earn
We study to learn
We dream to yearn
Being in the moment focus on task
We know what to do – no need to ask
Alive to create – there’s so much to do
Practice mindfulness - to yourself be true
We work to save
New jobs to brave
Boredom will cave.
(c) Linda J. Pedley 04-19-2020
Poem by Sharon Baggs
Escaping Boredom. Apr 13th 6 feet of distancing Now is the rule To keep us safe From the Covid Ghoul No sitting close To play cards or paint 6 feet apart to drink Java Movie nights canceled Cause Ya just have-ta ! We try to keep busy All on our own Reading a book Or writing a poem You can watch T.V Hear all the news Lots of sick people Makes you feel blue Another day dawns What can you do ? To keep yourself busy With something new Each day's the same Naught can we say Escaping Boredem We must find a way !
Escaping Boredom
escaping boredom ESCAPES boredom.
Lana O'Neill
April 13, 2020
Escaping Boredom
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Outside these unwashed windows
And tired-old-dirty walls,
There exists a wide world of meadows,
Trees like skyscrapers and mountains so tall
That the eye can barely begin to imagine; it’s hard to believe
That something as magical as the whisper of rain-on-new-spring-meadow,
Can exist in the same world as me.
It’s hard to imagine just how
All of this came to be, the blue ocean of the sky so wild,
And the kiss of a winter wind that bites in iciness;
Why, the autumn has the touch of a love so mild,
It’s hard to imagine that this world exists in dimness;
A dimness like the fluttering of that last-gasp gas lamp,
Or that breath that gets…
Escaping Boredom
Look out the window
At the world I cannot go
Disease keeps us all in
Hard to not go see our kin
Pacing up and down the hall
Banging my head against the wall
The house can only get so clean
Every surface already gleams
We need an escape
See the world from beyond the drapes
Colour a page to aid the fight
Or sit with a book to write
Call a friend
Wish this would all end
Oh to, again, see a movie
Or travel over seas
One day we will venture outside these walls
And adventure will call
I will stand here and soar from
The edge where I’ll be escaping boredom
​​​​​​​​​​©April 13, 2020
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