Lockdown 23.6.20

 

Lockdown 


Lockdown is slowdown - or is it?

After three months I’ve decelerated,

there’s poetry emotion at last!

A poem flows from the present moment

in my spirit in my room.

As writer I write to specifications 

but today no words flow

save those true to the present moment. 

Here I am housebound

in the Covid climate of fear

with daily walks of consolation.

It is good to be alive and attentive

to the present moment,

empty diary but fullness of spirit.


John Twisleton 23rd June 2020

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