NPR's newest crowdsourced poem is about grief and how, in the middle of a pandemic, 'there is no vaccine against [grief] — we can't develop antibodies against it, it is something I have and something you have — but in these times it is something we have.'
Earlier this month, NPR issued a poetry challenge: submit lines describing how you've been affected by the global coronavirus pandemic.Nancy Cross Dunham's poem,"What I'm Learning About Grief,"Are you looking for more poetry – or maybe a way to find a little hope these days? NPR will soon launch a new show on Facebook Live:The responses were deeply emotional and vividly captured some of the ways you are coping with uncertainty and crisis.
an ocean of tears So, you vary the crawl with the butterfly, the backstroke with breaststroke. At some point, drowning is no longer an option.it will not go away just because you won't look it in the eye"See, it's not so bad. I got your back." This pandemic, this tragedy, this fulcrum of life is a shovel unearthing secrets we wish would stay buried I learn that I am ashamed I love solitude.
Hard times call for soft people. There is softness in stillness, in staying home, in distractions deleted, in a togetherness that stretches great distances.is not found in mint leaves, floating in a glass of tears boiled thrice over.
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