Under Lockdown I have been trying write creatively every now and again, whilst reflecting on the current situation. I set myself a challenge to write a poem using some randomly generated words in the poem. So using an internet random word generator to generate a selection of words, I wrote the following poem:
Life in Lockdown
Breathe into the deafening sound of the shutting of a drawer,
It’s axiomatic my dear Watson,
The value of a brief jog shall not be underestimated
Now is not the time to be finicky in the supermarket,
We shall have license to sing,
Whilst we make gainful discovery indoors
Always indoors,
Be invincibly nervous about the last of the rice,
Evaluate the promise of a sunny day
Inside,
Always inside,
Begin new ways of being social and apart,
Listen to the one-time unusual message from the Crown
Protect more than three,
By being inside,
Always indoors
Periodic cups of tea,
Disintegrate the monotony
Hall-based meandering is straightened to just the few rooms,
No unnecessary trips,
To here, there and everywhere
Buzz cuts must be happening in absentia,
Take homely photographs with your camera of your dear esteemed friend,
The sofa
It is time to be motionless and sincere,
We have never been so fresh or so exultant at eight pm on a Thursday,
We are branching out into the exuberant banging of metal
To celebrate those who tread the battle lines so diligently
Here we have time to appreciate,
To be considerate,
And to yawn a substantial yawn to mark the end of the day
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