Winter Woods

In the year of Covid, 2020

This Page Is Lit – Painting With Words

The title inspired by American poet, Billy Collins.  The entire quote goes like this: "Your page is lit by the candles of the past, all the writers that have helped you to write."

1. This Page Is Lit 02:49
2. It Takes A Village 02:47
3. Word Magic 05:22
4. It's Time 04:14
5. Winter Woods – The Year Of COVID, 2020 04:29

Winter woods
Ground hardened, strewn with decay
Silence surrounds

Listen

Barren trees
All bumps, knots, scars exposed
Reaching up to the energy from the sky

Listen

Frozen pond
Yesterday, a popular watering hole
Now protecting itself and others

Listen

Once a rushing waterfall
Hangs…suspended…waiting
Uncertain

Listen. Can you hear it?

One small trickle
Seeps through
A glimmer

Listen

Life still flows
A sign of hope
Believe

Listen

The Woods Symbolizes This Pandemic

Now go back and read it again.

Stanza 1: represents all the people who have died from COVID

Stanza 2: all the systems, stockpiles, etc. that hadn’t been replenished, doctors/nurses working not stop. Praying for help

Stanza 3: Businesses (bars, restaurants in particular) that had to shut down for long periods of time

Stanza 4: People with lives so busy, rushing from one thing to another, suddening put in lockdown

Stanza 5: Word of a possible vaccine being distributed slowly

Stanza 6: Hope returns