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Ring Around the Rosie: Corona Poetry for Quarantine

Ring Around the Rosie: Corona Poetry for Quarantine

Poetry Sunday

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Crystal Jackson
Apr 19, 2020
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Poetry Sunday

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Ring Around the Rosie

The world outside is wide
I tell myself I’m safe inside
But all four walls are creeping near
As the life I had fades into fear
It takes all night for sleep to fall
I wait all day for the all-clear call
While the death toll grows outside my home
I’m safe inside but all alone
But for two small ch…

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