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AbdullaJabr Jul 2021
Moments no one could expect,
Like the year New York City finally slept.
When cuddles and kisses were no longer romantic,
And coughing or sneezing created mass panic.

We feared the air and what it could hold,
As we watched the breaking news unfold.
The days merged and time slowed –
We waited at home as morgues overflowed.

Strangers became heroes overnight -
Dawning masks of blue and suits of white,
Working relentlessly with no end in sight.

When keeping distance was a sign of affection,
Knowing it was for your own protection.
Children stripped away from friends,
For reasons they could not comprehend.

Through troubles and trials -
The answer to our prayers,
Came in glasses and vials.

For as the sunsets and rises,
Across every ocean horizon.
And like the certainty of tides -
This storm will soon subside.

This too shall pass -
labyrinth Jun 2021
Doubting your own hands
Fearing your own breath
Colleagues, family, friends
Potential causes of your death
Diesel Jun 2021
I miss wet rain on buses
I miss crowded subway stairs
I miss noisy streets in public
I miss breathing ocean air:

I miss walking in the snow
I miss snowmen building high
I miss concretes slushy flow
I miss children stepping by:

I miss eyes of pretty girls
I miss old men sitting too
I miss seeing squirrels creep
I miss streetlights switching hue:

I miss walking to and there
I miss waiting crosswalks tick
I miss coming home all wear'd
I miss sleeping after six:

I miss waking up at nine
I miss dreading morning days
I miss my recurring life
I miss living life again.
Daivik May 2021
थक गया हूँ
कुछ ना कर करके
Daivik May 2021
It flashed on the television screen
The death toll rising
It was just another stat for me
Just an inanimate number
General Knowledge
Before that day

Before that day
It was just a boring news piece
Repeated all the time
Shouting matches on television
No on cared bout the dead
Just numbers to them
To me

Some days less some days more
A minister said deaths per capita were less
Tell that to the widow
Percentages and line graphs and histograms
And vultures and hyenas for trps
So dry no emotion
Before that day

Anchors and politicians
Calculating and comparing
Different countries and classes
By deaths and cases
Like stock market
Humans in flesh and blood
Like shares and indices

These lives these smiles
What destiny held for them
Who knows
Gone away in the icu
To just become another statistic
Another pawn for politicians to fight about

Thousands and thousands of people
Becoming numbers
Meant to be forgotten in days

The magnitude made me numb
I didn't care
It wasn't me
Wasn't my family
It didn't affect me
To me it was a
Just a never ending vacation

Rates of poverty and unemployment
Didn't matter to me as a child
Misery and anguish of people
Millions and millions of people
Just a figure to be momentarily saddened by

While I cursed at the zoom meeting screen
Someone's mother and father passed away gasping for oxygen
Leaving a newborn orphan
And while I ate the same bland food
Someone died walking miles towards his home

Before that day
It didn't matter
It wasn't me
Wasn't my family
Till it was

It's painful
A person becoming a statistic
Just to make it sure
Me and my family are safe
Yeah I took a line from a cranberries song hope you can find
labyrinth May 2021
Sunday has certainly lost its crown
Over the other six during the lockdown
Benzene May 2021
If prevention is better than cure .
Then
Not falling in love is better than heartbreak.
It's just a thought  that hit my mind when I was reading news.
Such kind of thoughts hit my mind daily, may be I'll post such more thoughts.
चुनाव   में  है   करना  प्रचार  जरूरी  ,
ऑक्सीजन की ना बातें ना बेड मंजूरी,
दवा मिले ना मिलता टीका आराम से ,  
बैठे हैं चुप चाप  जरा दिल को थाम के,
आ जाए ना चुपचाप कोरोना धड़ाम से।

खांसी किसी को आती तो ऐसा लगता है ,
यम का है कोई दूत घर पे  आ गरजता है ,
छींक का वो ही असर है  जो भूत नाम से ,  
बैठे हैं चुप चाप  जरा दिल को थाम के,
आ जाए ना चुपचाप कोरोना धड़ाम से।

हाँ हाँ अभी तो उनसे कल बात हुई थी,
इनसे भी तो परसो हीं मुलाकात हुई थी,
सिस्टम की बलि चढ़ गए थे बड़े काम के,
बैठे हैं चुप चाप  जरा दिल को थाम के,
आ जाए ना चुपचाप कोरोना धड़ाम से।

एम्बुलेंस की आवाज है दिन रात चल रही,
शमशान  में  चिताओं  की बाढ़ जल  रही,
सहमा हुआ सा मन है आज  राम नाम से,
बैठे हैं चुप चाप  जरा दिल को थाम के,
आ जाए ना चुपचाप कोरोना धड़ाम से।

भगवान अल्लाह गॉड सारे चुप खड़े हैं ,
बहुरुपिया  कोरोना  बड़े  रूप  धड़े  हैं ,
साईं बाबा रह गए हैं  बस हीं नाम  के   ,
बैठे हैं चुप चाप  जरा दिल को थाम के,
आ जाए ना चुपचाप कोरोना धड़ाम से।

अजय अमिताभ सुमन:सर्वाधिकार सुरक्षित
कोरोना बीमारी की दूसरी लहर ने पूरे देश मे कहर बरपाने के साथ साथ भातीय तंत्र की विफलता को जग जाहिर कर दिया है। चाहे केंद्र सरकार हो या की राज्य सरकारें, सारी की सारी एक दूसरे के उपर दोषरोपण में व्यस्त है। जनता की जान से ज्यादा महत्वपूर्ण चुनाव प्रचार हो गया है। दवाई, टीका, बेड आदि की कमी पूरे देश मे खल रही है। प्रस्तुत है इन्ही कुव्यथाओं पर आक्षेप करती हुई कविता  " जरा दिल को थाम के"।
No one never seen a ghost
We believed, there none
even now we cannot see
Just watching mortality of human race
And humanity in crowd

Not to worry about

Mars is ready for mass
Or mankind is eager
To be alive there as the aliens
or living ghost
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