I actually wrote two poems to the prompts today. This was one I wrote in a notebook while waiting in the dentist’s office. I decided it was sort of a downer in a time of too many downers, so I wrote another, but it called out from the notebook sitting on my desk beside my computer, so here it is with all its warts.
Campused
It’s a kind of surviving, this new life we share.
We rarely leave home and we don’t cut our hair.
We mainly commune with our kids and our spouses
and cover our faces when we must leave our houses.
We maintain a distance of six feet away.
We deterge our hands countless times every day.
A soupcon of hand sanitizer’s our goal
when touching a surface not in our control.
Not a world of our choice and not one by design,
so we sulk and we protest. We pout and we whine.
Yet we are not blameless, for it’s the result
of the short-sighted goals of the consumer cult.
Parents respond when kids get out of hand.
So, too, Mother Nature must take a stand.
She’s decided to send each of us to our room
lest we mess up her world, thus sealing its doom.
If we won’t behave, she must take a firm hand.
We’ve not followed her rules, so we have been banned.
Prompts today are surviving, design, soupcon, deterge and kind. And also, for dVerse Poets
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
It’s the perfect message!
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all too true
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I like the part about Mother Nature sending us to our room. I feel an analogy of pandemic poems coming.
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I could publish a book of them already if I weren’t just so lazy about collecting and formatting the darn thing.. Just want to keep on writing them and letting them pile up!!!
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Spot On, Dame Judith.
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Yes, we are Mother Nature’s misbehaving children.
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Where do you get these prompts from? They’re great!
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Agreed.🙃
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Well, that’s about it in a well written nutshell!
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I agree with your thinking here. The earth can take care of itself and us perhaps to our demise.
Well done!
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