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Publius Ovidius Naso: AKA Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature.
As the poet, Ovid once said
Here are the rules: any verse is okay, rhymes and meter optional, any language, add Your verse or verses as a comment and share with others and together we will write the Greatest Elegy in the History of Pandemics. Take that Publius!
Elegy to The Coronavirus Pandemic
We’ve been to London and to France
But now we’re staying home
Not heading to a Sardinian dance
Cause now we’re staying home
What need have we of coffee out
For now we’re staying home
With so much risk and so much doubt
Oh yes, we’re staying home
Who really needs a dinner out
Damn straight we’re staying home
Baseball and Olympic Flames
Not now, we’re staying home
We all will miss the precious games
Still now we’re staying home
it’s been announced that
the future is suspended
plans upended indefinitely
dreams postponed
being in the moment
is current “superior” mandate
involuntary enlightenment
if there ever was one
humorless oxymoron
how contrary it feels
to the world begotten
with a live shiny droplet
now a different particle
that escapes definition of life
works at cross-purpose
yet the universe will
deny it its nourishment
as we pray and hope sincerely…