A beautiful world

A beautiful world

If the Atlantic was just a puddle, I’d paddle from Europe

to shake your hand.

If the Mediterranean was just a stream, I’d carry much needed food and drugs to your land.

If the Pacific was just a pond, the whole of Asia would share a bond

with the Americas and Australia, all across your terrain and sand.

And if only the Indian Ocean was just a magic potion

To stop a huge tsunami before the wheels were put in motion!

And if the Arctic was just a warm pool, to have a bathe and to cool.

What a beautiful notion.

Chanksgiving

Chanksgiving

We’ve heard it can be infectious

It’s catching and contagious!

Want to avoid an epidemic,

Or even a pandemic!

Before it becomes too dangerous.

We enjoy a Chinese takeaway

An Asian holiday or breakaway.

Don’t want to feel fluey

After eating chop suey -

You need to keep it at bay.

It's getting a little frightening

Now it’s reached the shores of Brighton

With a name like Corona -

You don’t want to know her!

But we need to be enlightened.

We don’t like wearing masks

To us, it would be rather daft!

We don’t want to panic

Or let things get manic,

Keep it to yourself, we have to ask.

Some people have looked quite green

And have been kept in quarantine..

And as numbers double

There’s going to be trouble

As we disinfect and clean.

We really don’t know the root

Of the virus but know it’s acute..

It’s a new kind of strain

And need to restrain

Dress up in protective suits.

The world is getting nearer

And is becoming clearer

One germ that can spread

For miles and miles, we dread

As more people are looking queerer.

We’ve guidelines of isolation

The whole world and its nation.

Just stay inside

Before it spreads nationwide;

Tune in to a good radio station..

We need to put on the brakes

And stop eating our wildlife and snakes!

Think before a snack
Coz they will bite back

Before causing any new outbreaks.

Linda Lawrence

11^th February 2020