Corona Collection: A collective poem, co-created internationally on May 16, 2020
I said to my soul,
be calm and wait,
Wait just wait.
Be calm and patient.
You are the bees that buzz.
Listen. Be still and tune yourself into the thrum, outside and in.
I said to my soul: Wait just wait,
For what needs to be born
and accept that beautiful gift.
The hummingbird that alights on air.
Listen to the earth your Mother.
This is not a time of death
but a time of life,
you have the connection within
to reach out, to spread love
into an atmosphere of fear.
Be the anchor the world needs
to find its way
out of the seeming darkness.
Wake up, the sun is dancing in
through your window.
I said to my soul,
feel the coming and going
as it happens organically,
everything is written
but there are no rules,
have fun.
You are the wind that rustles
through the autumn leaves.
Drink from the river that you are.
Where could you be
Without the face.
I said to my soul,
that the whales are longing
to dance with you,
ten thousands years ago
we were together, one with the water.
Trust that everything will be all right.
In quietness is rest
what are you,
where are you,
let’s continue
embrace this new grandchild and whisper to her to believe tapweta (believe) that there is mino-pimatisiwin (a good life) always in the heart of our Creator, for you.
I hear your silent song You are everything. You are light.
Poetry and the Pandemic, organized and co-hosted by:
Serap Brown & Budd Hall, Social Movement Poets Collective, Victoria, Canada.
Photo by Serap Brown.
Poem facilitated by: Filiz Telek, Guest Poet
Poem co-created by: Linda Allison, Sujan Bhattacharrya, Serap Brown, Mehtap Burak, Alan Chaffe, Mariana Fernandez, Budd Hall, Jude Fransman, Gracelynn Lau, Maeve Lydon, Lily McKay-Carriere, Kieran Magzul, Nkatha Mercy, David Monk, Jill Olesker, Lisa Richardson, Filiz Telek, Daniela Vance.