©COVD19 Lockdown
By Eulinda Antonette Clarke-Akalanne
Monday 27th April 2020
On 16th March (2020) I started isolating,
to protect myself from Coronavirus cross infection.
This unprecedented lock down opened doors for me all around.
Some of these I’ll relate but others I’ll unfold on another date.
I’m busier now than I’ve been before, doing things I’ve not done of yore.
Every day after ablution I meditate, then follow the daily routine I create
I exercise and deep breathe too,
Tai Chi practice, I regularly do.
Daily I walk 1000 steps or more,
circling around from my front door to my back door
or I’ll go up and downstairs 35 times, while singing musical rhymes
I’ve scanned my address book and diary, and using social media successfully,
networked with friends and family, while reaching out to those who’re lonely.
I’ve invented culinary delights, like orange peel tea & green-banana skin bites.
The weather has been fairly good, so I’m enjoying things in my ‘hood’,
I see the difference between a wasp and a bee
and listen to birds singing in the nearby tree.
My creative juices have been stimulated
and lots more poems I’ve created.
I’ve written a short autobiography, for the magazine, ‘People in Harmony’.
Three on-line courses I’ve completed and Mindfulness I have repeated.
I’ve learnt to compress a massive file, and change Microsoft word to a PDF file.
My piano key board I’ve rediscovered for years it laid undisturbed.
I’ve now started once more to play, a little tune each day
I’ve discovered who cares about me,
these are my son, William and his family,
and Mandy, Ruth, Vesna and Valerie,
who religiously do my shopping for me.
Others bring joy and show kindness to me, by demonstrating their loyalty.
There’s Nagina my ‘adopted’ daughter who has the most wonderful nature
she shines with a beautiful aura.
I adhere to six feet distancing and remain in social isolation.
I don’t touch my grandchildren physically,
but bed-time stories I tell them electronically.
I sing and dance with on line training, and Mr. Motivator exercising
My perceptions are more aware and I smell and breathe fresher air
With a sip of honeyed lemon tea, the melodious pigeon coos I hear.
The rays of the sun are warm on my skin, as the vitamin “D” in my pelt sinks in.
The sky is clearer now at night and I see myriads of stars shining bright.
Numerous clouds are visible during the day
Some whose names I can barely say.
There’s cumulus billowing by
Or nimbostratus darkening the sky,
Life’s not too bad for me, in this shutdown society.
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