Plague Year Poems

A Poem a Day for the Duration

March 2020 [  1] [  2] [  3] [  4] [  5] [  6] [  7] [  8] [  9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31]

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March 22: 1. Going Gentle	April 1: 11. My Darn Brain	April 11: 21. My Favorite Day of the Year	April 21: 31. Do Fence Me In
March 23: 2. Blather, Wince, Repeat	April 2: 12. The Eternal Now	April 12: 22. Our Modern Age	April 22: 32. Inhabitual
March 24: 3. Waiting for the Call	April 3: 13. Clarion Comfort	April 13: 23. Correction	April 23: 33. Gone Viral
March 25: 4. Social Distancing in Paradise	April 4: 14. Getting to Know My Laptop	April 14: 24. A Trifle Hubristic	April 24: 34. A Lot of Weather We're Having Lately
March 26: 5. Crass Commercialism	April 5: 15. This Modern Age	April 15: 25. Tantalus	April 25: 35. By the Beautiful Sea
March 27: 6. How Life Goes On	April 6: 16. Providing a Vital Service Apparently	April 16: 26. Confession	April 26: 36. Three Dozen
March 28: 7. My Plans for Saturday	April 7: 17. All Very Hush Hush	April 17: 27. An Unreliable Narrator	April 27: 37. My Pre-existing Condition
March 29: 8. Quite Contrary	April 8: 18. Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow	April 18: 28. Dessert With Three 'S's	April 28: 38. 'Twas Ever Thus
March 30: 9. What I've Been Thinking All Along	April 9: 19. A Glow-in-the-Dark Bumbershoot?	April 19: 29. The Siren Song of Honesty	April 29: 39. Full of Sound and Fury
March 31: 10. Taking My Zicam...	April 10: 20. Breaking My Fast	April 20: 30. Some Sort of "Versary"	April 30: 40. Me Complaining Again

May 2020           [  1] [  2] [  3] [  4] [  5] [  6] [  7] [  8] [  9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31]

June 2020   [  1] [  2] [  3] [  4] [  5] [  6] [  7] [  8] [  9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30]

May 1: 41. Hello, Dali	May 17: 57. Fifty-Seven Varieties	June 1: 72. Original Sin	June 16: 87. Must! Keep! Dancing!
May 2: 42. Another Saturday at Home	May 18: 58. Utilizing the First Person Plural	June 2: 73. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Hams	June 17: 88.And It Comes Out Here
May 3: 43. Invitation to the Dance	May 19: 59. Invitation	June 3: 74. Prejudiced	June 18: 89. Priorities
May 4: 44. Learning Curve	May 20: 60. Three Hundred Poems from Now	June 4: 75. The Butterfly Effect	June 19: 90. Seriously, Though
May 5: 45. Crunchy	May 21: 61. Adventure Awaits	June 5: 76. The Sound of Chainsaws	June 20: 91. The Endless Summer
May 6: 46. The Red Shoes	May 22: 62. Oh, Me of Little Faith	June 6: 77. A Brief Action Scene	June 21: 92. Squirrel!
May 7: 47. Buckets of Fried Cheese	May 23: 63. One of My Hobbies	June 7: 78. One Puppet Master's Lament	June 22: 93. Another Squirrel
May 8: 48. Prosody or Prose?	May 24: 64. Such Pretty Colors	June 8: 79. A Learning Experience	June 23: 94. The Third Squirrel
May 9: 49. Seven Come Eleven	May 25: 65. Both Spirit and Flesh are Weak	June 9: 80. Festering Carbuncles	June 24: 95. Close Encounters of the Squirrel Kind
May 10: 50. My Biggest Fan	May 26: 66. Disposition	June 10: 81. Mono a Mono	June 25: 96. Drowsy
May 11: 51. Another Little Dialogue	May 27: 67. The Bony Pony Polka	June 11: 82. The Big Question	June 26: 97. A Cleanup in All Departments
May 12: 52. Prepare for a Hatch Battening	May 28: 68. The Sound of One Fist Fighting	June 12: 83. Ballade of Things to Come	June 27: 98. Steady State
May 13: 53. The Collapse of Civilization	May 29: 69. Don't Write What You Don't Know	June 13: 84. Thirteen Weeks Later	June 28: 99. My Darn Brain Again
May 14: 54. Come 'n' Get It	May 30: 70. Barometric Pressure	June 14: 85. Exhortation	June 29: 100. Big Round Number
May 15: 55. Reaching the Old Speed Limit	May 31: 71. 1971	June 15: 86. Eighty-Six Me	June 30: 101. Just Getting Warmed Up
May 16: 56. Mark Your Calendars

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August 2020             [  1] [  2] [  3] [  4] [  5] [  6] [  7] [  8] [  9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31]

July 1: 102. And Two Steps Back	July 17: 118. Walk it Off	August 1: 133. Fifteen Thousand Words
July 2: 103. Pseudo-Nostalgia	July 18: 119. The Once and Future Jerk	August 2: 134: Home Again, Home Again
July 3: 104. What Woke Me This Morning	July 19: 120. Asymptomatic	August 3: 135. Birds Without Hats
July 4: 105: The Pathetic Fallacy	July 20: 121: One Two One	August 4: 136. When Air Becomes Sky
July 5: 106: This Holiday Weekend	July 21: 122. A Month After the Solstice	August 5: 137. What I Don't Mean
July 6: 107. On the List to be Off the List	July 22: 123. Four	August 6: 138. What I Do Mean
July 7: 108: Green Eggs and Ants	July 23: 124: The New Normal at the Library	August 7: 139. Nearly Killed While Baking Again
July 8: 109: And the Dying is Easy	July 24: 125: A Nine-Dollar Hot Dog	August 8: 140: Google "Prime 53 Poem"
July 9: 110. It's Comedy That's Hard	July 25: 126. Occupation	August 9: 141: I Build My Man of Straw
July 10: 111. Ballade of Inner Conflict	July 26: 127. Aiming for a Mild Atypia	August 10: 142. Zeitgeist
July 11: 112. Upon Smooshing an Ant Walking Across the Kitchen Table During Breakfast	July 27: 128: Summery Judgment	August 11: 143. Year of the Rat
July 12: 113. No Laughing Matter	July 28: 129. The Six-Month-iversary of My Drug Addiction	August 12: 144. Gross
July 13: 114. Dart	July 29: 130. The March of Time	August 13: 145. Are These the Dog Days?
July 14: 115. My Right to a Speedy Trial	July 30: 131: Penultimatum
July 15: 116. Our Wild Kingdom	July 31: 132: Flipping the Page
July 16: 117. Under Mid-July Skies