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Ray Zimmerman's avatar

Written in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this poem appears in It's Just a Phase.

Advice in Time of Plague

Do not Abandon all hope ye who enter here

nor let the weight of current events crush your soul.

Mourn what is lost, but not too long.

Crush the hurdle of despair and

the dark thoughts lurking there.

Pitch a tent near cool mountain streams.

Lay spoil to grim demeanor and resurrect hope.

Revel in the comedy of a fence lizard's display.

Delight in wild violets and trout lilies.

Never forget you are called to live.

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Janisse Ray's avatar

I cannot live without wild things. None of us can. It's just that some know it and some don't.

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Mary Dansak's avatar

Gorgeous, Ray. And a mention of one of my favorite places, Edisto. Count me in as one who cannot live without wild things, including grasshoppers and hornets as well as whales and wolves.

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